{"id":151488,"date":"2025-09-18T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:04:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-pulled-off-the-air-over-charlie-kirk-comments-abc-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151488\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel pulled off the air over Charlie Kirk comments, ABC announces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sept. 17, 2025, 7:10 PM EDT\u00a0\/\u00a0Updated\u00a0Sept. 17, 2025, 7:22 PM EDT<\/p>\n

By Erum Salam<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will be taken off the air \u201cindefinitely\u201d after remarks he made<\/a> Monday about the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk<\/a>, ABC announced Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel said in his monologue.<\/p>\n

Kimmel went on to criticize President Donald Trump\u2019s reaction to news of Kirk\u2019s death, after which he played a clip of Trump responding to a question about Kirk by talking about the new White House ballroom.<\/p>\n

Shortly before ABC’s announcement, Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar Media, one of the country’s largest TV station owners, said it would stop airing the show after Kimmel’s comments. In a statement<\/a>, he wrote, \u201cMr. Kimmel\u2019s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel’s remarks also drew condemnation from Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr<\/a>, who said it “appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into the narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or Republican-motivated person.\u201d <\/p>\n

Carr added: \u201cWhat people don\u2019t understand is that the broadcasters \u2026 have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.”<\/p>\n

Carr issued a stark warning to the network: “When we see stuff like this, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr applauded Nexstar’s decision to pull Kimmel’s show, saying, “I want to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing. Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest. While this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values.”<\/p>\n

ABC did not immediately reply to MSNBC’s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 17, 2025, 7:10 PM EDT\u00a0\/\u00a0Updated\u00a0Sept. 17, 2025, 7:22 PM EDT By Erum Salam Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-151488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}