Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke

Disney and ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! Outside the air “indefinitely” after the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, threatened to withdraw broadcast licenses for any station that broadcast his presentation on the comments made by Kimmel about the man accused of the murder of Charlie Kerk.

The decision, according to diverseand It was made after the Nexstar television giant announced that local subsidiary companies in ABC will exclude the broadcast Jimmy Kimmel Live! Just hours after Carr release this threat. Nexstar is one of the largest owners of TV stations throughout the country. We have contacted the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) to comment specifically from the Kimmel offer and any regulations for the Federal Communications Committee that you may violate.

NexStar is also awaiting Carr to agree to a $ 6.2 billion spoonful incorporation with the competitor Tegna, according to the comments made by CEO Perry Suk during a recent investment call.

Earlier in the day, Carr suggested to the Maga Johnson effect earlier today that he was considering withdrawing broadcasting licenses for TV stations represented in Air ABC, after the host late Jimmy Kimmeel claimed that “Maga Gang” was “trying to classify this child who killed Charlie Kirk as anything else.”

In the interview, which Johnson posted on X, Carr also offered ABC and its mother company Disney is an easier way to go out: punishing the Kimmel itself.

“This is a very serious issue at the present time for Disney. We can do this in an easy way or in a difficult way,” he said. “These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there will be additional work in the upcoming Federal Communications Committee (FCC). They have a license to grant us in the Federal Communications Committee, and comes with them a commitment to work in the public interest.”

Car, one of the appointed Trump, spent his term at the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) in attacking the old media because of the alleged bias against conservatives, and regularly threatened to withdraw broadcast licenses on the coverage he hates. He took advantage of the approval of integration in the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) to obtain the financial lever on entertainment companies, especially Paramount and Skydance, who agreed to allow the “bias” control to examine the programming they had. Car also threatened to investigate Disney for diversity policies.

During the search for the Kerk killer last week, hot speculation arose about possible ideological motives. While the Republicans immediately confirmed that the shooter was on the political left, speculation online during the weekend indicated that Robinson might be linked to the extreme Groyper movement that has been harassed for a long time-a direction of Kimmil for a short time in Monuhouj Tuesday night.

“We had some of its lowest levels during the weekend with the Maga gang to classify this child who killed Charlie Kerk as anything other than one of them,” said Kimmel, who then moved to discuss President Donald Trump’s press conference on Friday.

Johnson described the comment in X Publishing as Kimmel. Car told him that this was enough to work with the Federal Communications Committee. “There are calls to launch Kimmel,” Car later added. “I think you can definitely see a way forward to comment on this.”

On the previous day, Carr opposed the call of the Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi to distinguish “freedom of expression” from “hate speech” and the latter’s trial, which is part of a larger republic to classify criticism or mocking Kirk as illegal. He said at the top of its hosting: “I think you can draw a completely clear line, and the Supreme Court has made it decades ago Politico.

So a letter about Kirk to fly on the Internet, apparently. But television broadcasting is subject to a greater government purchase thanks to the FCC License for the Spectrum. Carr claimed that Kimmel’s comment had occurred under the crime of “distorting the news”, which he said was sufficient to withdraw the license of the stations that he broadcasts.

“We have a base on books that explain the public interest standard that says news is prohibited. Likewise, we have a base that deals with a broadcast hoax, and so on again, over the years, the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) has declined from imposing it, and I do not think it was useful from anyone. Just take a look at the credibility of these media,” said Car. (Pulling the station’s licenses will be to broadcast at a late night offering almost unprecedented-it is a penalty that is rarely used in terrible conditions.)

Disney herself does not have a broadcasting license, so Carr has made clear his threats to the local ABC companies. “Disney needs to see some changes here, but the individual licensing stations that take [Disney’s] The content, it is time to ascend and say this, as you know, garbage – to the extent that the tube descends in the future – is not something that he believes is serving the needs of our local societies. “

Nexstar needs FCC to reduce organizational restrictions in order to move forward in combining the proposed with Tegna, making it the largest owner of broadcast stations in the country. Under the current FCC bases, one company cannot directly own TV stations of more than 39 percent of American viewers. The merger will bring it to 80 percent.

In a phone call to the investor last month, NewSCast Studio stated that Suk expressed his belief that Car and Trump’s administration would cancel these rules. “We feel very positive about moving forward in the process of organizational approval,” Suk said. “We meet this moment in which it is located, and we will work with the organizers because they are considering modifying and canceling old rules and regulations.”

Earlier, Car noted that all other media that threatened him with legal resort are now amazing functions in compliance with being more fair to conservatives.

“I mean, see, NPR has been reduced. PBS has been destroyed. [Stephen] Colbert retires. Joy Reid out of MSNBC, “Crowned Crowned. CBS has now pledged some commitments to us that they will return to more fact -based press, so I think you see some people like Kimmel, who are not honest and looking for ways to get attention.”