Overview

• Disney consulted internal and outside legal experts before reinstating Jimmy Kimmel and is preparing for possible action from the Trump Administration.
• Executives were told Disney would likely prevail if the administration attempted to target ABC’s broadcast licenses.
• FCC Chair Brendan Carr urged stations to stop airing the show and warned that carrying it could jeopardize licenses.
• Major affiliate groups Nexstar and Sinclair pulled the program, then restored it by Friday, returning the show to nationwide carriage.
• Public protests and cancellations followed the brief suspension, and legal analysts say revoking licenses over content would be highly difficult under existing law.