Overview

• ABC/Disney pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely after Nexstar and other affiliates said they would stop airing the show following Kimmel’s Sept. 15 monologue about reactions to Charlie Kirk’s killing.
• FCC chair Brendan Carr urged broadcasters to take action, warned “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” praised Nexstar’s stance, and said on Thursday that “we’re not done yet.”
• President Donald Trump welcomed the suspension, suggested stations critical of him could lose licenses, and singled out other late-night hosts, drawing fresh concerns about government pressure on media.
• Late-night peers including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, and David Letterman backed Kimmel and criticized the decision as censorship, as WGA, SAG-AFTRA, AFM, and FIRE condemned both ABC’s move and the FCC’s pressure; protesters gathered outside Kimmel’s Hollywood studio.
• Democratic leaders accused Carr of abusing his office and some urged his resignation, while legal experts noted the FCC licenses local stations rather than national networks and civil-liberties groups say the agency lacks authority to police viewpoint content.