Brendan Carr<\/a>, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened regulatory action against ABC if the network did not punish Kimmel. That prompted a backlash from some conservatives who feared government overreach and harm to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n![\"Brendan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\/f2151076-e0e9-43b2-9691-c67ac3b68036.jpg\")
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Brendan Carr, chairman of the FCC<\/p>\n
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Kimmel, an ABC veteran who alongside his late-night duties has also hosted the Oscars several times, was reported to be planning to address the controversy in another monologue before his suspension.<\/p>\n
Despite his return, Kimmel\u2019s show will still be unavailable across swathes of America after Sinclair Broadcast Group said it would instead show \u201cnews programming\u201d. \u201cDiscussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show\u2019s potential return,\u201d Sinclair said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Sinclair is the largest owner of ABC stations, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with 38 across the country including the affiliate that serves the Washington DC metro area. Nexstar Media Group, the other broadcasting giant that pressured Disney over Kimmel, is yet to make an announcement on whether its stations will broadcast the show when it returns.<\/p>\n
Nexstar is pursuing a massive merger deal that requires FCC approval.<\/p>\n
The decision to bring Kimmel back on air was likely to have been welcomed in Hollywood. It came hours after an open letter was released from the American Civil Liberties Union and more than 430 film, television and stage stars. It said the suspension was a \u201cdark moment for freedom of speech in our nation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country,\u201d the letter says. \u201cWe also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power \u2014 because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel will return to late-night television on Tuesday almost a week after being pulled off air for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-154261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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