ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off the Air ‘Indefinitely’

ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air “indefinitely” over his Charlie Kirk feedback.

A spokesperson of ABC confirmed to Enterprise Insider that the present shall be pulled off the air “indefinitely.”

The choice follows feedback Kimmel made on Monday’s present.

“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from one in every of them,” Kimmel mentioned.

The backlash intensified after Federal Communications Fee chair Brendan Carr publicly condemned Kimmel’s feedback, calling them “the sickest conduct attainable.” In an interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson, Carr additionally warned that affiliate licenses might come underneath evaluation, and that broadcasters are required to function “within the public curiosity.”

Following Carr’s feedback, Nextstar mentioned in a press release Wednesday that it’s going to substitute Kimmel’s present with alternate programming, and that the corporate “strongly objects to latest feedback made by Mr. Kimmel in regards to the killing of Charlie Kirk.”

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