Overview

• ABC/Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely following his monologue about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
• Nexstar said it would stop carrying the program as roughly 66 of 200 ABC affiliates threatened to pull it.
• The Hollywood Reporteraid DiDisney executives reviewed Kimmel’s planned on-air response and considered it likely to inflame tensions, influencing the suspension.
• FCC commissioner Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel and suggested broadcasters might face future commission work if companies did not act.
• President Trump praised the suspension and declared TV networks were “not authorized” to criticize him continuously, as Hollywood unions and Barack Obama denounced the decision as a free-speech setback.