FCC chair doubles down on Jimmy Kimmel hours before show set to return

[turbinetree]

By Nicole Charky-Chami
Published September 23, 2025 3:01 PM ET

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is doubling down on his attempt to punish Jimmy Kimmel — and now blames Democrats for the wave of backlash after Disney and ABC pulled the show last week.

"Democrats just keep digging themselves a deeper & deeper hole on Kimmel," Carr wrote on X. "They simply can’t stand that local TV stations—for the first time in years—stood up to a national programmer & chose to exercise their lawful right to preempt programming. We need to keep empowering local TV stations to serve their communities of license."

TV station groups Nexstar Media and Sinclair Broadcasting have said they plan to boycott Kimmel's show after ABC and its parent company Disney announced it will return Tuesday — backtracking on its earlier decision to pull the show after comments made about Charlie Kirk.

https://www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel-2674025773/

[LW1977]

1. He can burn in Hell

[turbinetree]

6. I keep thinking of how this "guy" worked for the Koch backed Heritage foundation

and Fred Koch basically got his money from Stalin and Hitler...........and then look at what history did..............every time I applied for a job I looked at the history of the company to tell myself.....................yes or no.............apparently libertarians don't look into that................ they just dislike government.............

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

2. Kimmel spoke the truth. Carr is pissed because the Dictator is unhappy.

[berniesandersmittens]

3. The brazen, public partisanship of this admin is staggering

They've weaponized the executive branch fully, from top to bottom.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Sinclair and Nexstar are not "local TV stations". They are conglomerates with franchises.

They are no more "local" than a McDonald's.

[Dave says]

11. Conglomerates that far exceed the number of stations and reach of their holdings when viewed ...

... in the lay of the land before the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which (a BIG alas) was signed into law by Clinton.

[Cha]

5. FU Carr.. Way Down there in your Hell HOLE.

[turbinetree]

9. Now Now I was thinking of pounding sand....................

[Cha]

16. Yeah, I do the Coping Mechanism that

works for me.

TY

[Diraven]

7. Both Sinclair and Nexstar

Are trying to suck up to Carr because he can only approve one of them to merge with Tegna. That's all this is. It's not like they're actually going to more ad money by preempting Kimmel.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Sounds like he is admitting there was an

Orchestrated effort to punish Kimmel. Look who is digging himself a hole.

[stumpysbear]

10. Great, let them boycott

The free market will vote with their wallets.

[sheshe2]

13. Bite me.

[johnnyfins]

14. Like Swalwell said:

Get a lawyer and preserve your documents.

BTW, Carr, TSF will abandon you. Have fun with that. Looks like you'll eventually "go through some things".

[Frasier Balzov]

15. Most of these companies are public traded.

Nextstar: NXST

Sinclair: SBGI

Salem: SALM

Disney: DIS