Overview
- Erika Kirk said Sinclair representatives asked if she wanted Jimmy Kimmel to apologize or appear on his show, and she declined, calling it not her issue.
- Kirk told Fox News in an interview excerpt that an apology was unnecessary if not sincere, adding that she neither wanted nor needed it.
- ABC briefly suspended Kimmel after his Sept. 15 remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and he returned the following week with a clarifying monologue.
- Nexstar and Sinclair pressed the network and temporarily preempted Jimmy Kimmel Live! even after his return before ending the preemptions.
- Sinclair said it proposed accountability steps to ABC, including a network-wide independent ombudsman, but the company has not adopted those measures.