And he’s back:
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But will Nexstar and Sinclair have him back on their stations?
Least it shifts the ire of the public across from ABC to Nexstar. And thats where it belongs. Though not sure how one would boycott them. I guess the protest could move to boycottinf advertisers on Nexstar stations.
Sinclair currently will not, Nexstar hasn’t made an announcement yet though
That’s Sinclair’s loss. I think the show is available on Hulu though.
A male suspect has been arrested by the FBI for the Sacramento ABC station shooting last week.
Still up in arms over not receiving donations from Kimmel for sure.
Keep waiting. It will never come.
Unless Sinclair wants to risk the potential consequences of not carrying ABC network programming, I suspect the holdout won’t last long.
Sinclair has always sucked up to the GOP. They’ll continue to preempt Kimmel if they can.
Nexstar could just yank ABC affilation and where possible switch to the CW, or just keep prempting Kimmel.
If ABC makes them take Kimmel, I think you’ll get a lot of stations dump ABC.
Wonder if ABC has some leverage here. They have NFL and college football, they could threaten to pull these from the affliates that don’t take it. Or pull affiliations?
The way Broadcast is in the US, loosing sport would be a big blow to Sinclair.
The problem is, again, where do you put ABC in many of the smaller markets where there is no non-big 4 station, or if there is one, it’s owned by Sinclair or Nexstar. Take, as an example, Chico-Redding, CA. 5 full powers, 8 low powers. Sinclair own 2 full powers (KRCR 7 with ABC, KCVU 20 with Fox) and 4 of the low powers. There’s 1 PBS (KIXE 9), Byron Allen currently owns the other 2 full powers (KHSL 12 with CBS and CW, KNVN 24 with NBC and Telemundo) and probably can’t make any big changes while selling the stations, and the other low power stations are all non-commercial relays of Christian stations from Oregon. How do you keep ABC on air in a market like that?
It depends on what is in their affiliate agreements. Sinclair and Nexstar may end up backed in to an embarrassing corner.
The fact they had to back off airing Friday night’s Kirk special at the last minute and took Family Feud from the network tells me that ABC put them in their place and they didn’t have a choice.
We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
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They can do deals like the one that put ABC on 7.2 in Miami. I believe in theory the cable nets aren’t required to carry sub channels - but they obviously have the option for a cable only O&O which added to streaming would hit 90% of the market anyway.
The only real argument is that the ABC network programming is helped by strong local news and syndicated offerings, but if they won’t clear your schedule then why keep em.
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Nexstar is joining Sinclair.
There are 3 ways this goes now. Disney folds and drops Jimmy all together, Nexstar fold and pick Jimmy back up (Sinclair most likely won’t because we know them), or ABC pulls the affiliation, and they lose access to around 70 or so DMAs.
Well if affiliates are going to pull his show in favour of Family Feud or local news bulletins for their regions, then perhaps it might be time to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air altogether? Like, take him off ABC permanently?
That’s what they just did… and it backfired so much ABC had to put him back on. So no, he won’t be taken off air. At least not until May, when his contract is up for renewal.
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