{"id":843475,"date":"2026-09-10T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:40:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-says-he-dropped-talarico-interview-from-broadcast-after-fcc-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843475\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel says he dropped Talarico interview from broadcast after FCC pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2C5PK5EGKFD2NBW37L4KMY5VWM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday that he would not broadcast an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico because of pressure from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WWHQBXOF4BGGVP5LPKCUTOBG6I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Kimmel did not specify what that pressure was but said the Federal Communications Commission had \u201cthreatened\u201d him, \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!,\u201d the ABC network, and ABC\u2019s affiliate and local stations \u201cbased on simple traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings it would seem they don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday that he would not broadcast an interview with Texas Democratic Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":["post-843475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}