{"id":5799,"date":"2025-09-24T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:54:06","slug":"nexstar-refuses-to-air-kimmels-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5799","title":{"rendered":"Nexstar Refuses To Air Kimmel\u2019s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Major ABC Affiliates Preempt \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d Over Controversial Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>two of the largest ABC affiliate owners, announced they will preempt&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>following the host\u2019s inaccurate claim that the suspect in conservative commentator Charlie Kirk\u2019s death was a MAGA supporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nexstar cited a commitment to maintaining respectful public discourse amid heightened tensions,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while Sinclair confirmed it would replace the show with news programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Disney reinstating Kimmel, many ABC stations will not air the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The network had suspended the show indefinitely, labeling Kimmel\u2019s remarks \u201cill-timed and insensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An anonymous staffer expressed doubt that the show will return, suggesting Disney may ultimately cancel it and replace it with reruns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major ABC Affiliates Preempt \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d Over Controversial Comments Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group, two of the largest ABC affiliate owners, announced they will preempt&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live! following the host\u2019s inaccurate claim that the suspect in conservative commentator Charlie Kirk\u2019s death was a MAGA supporter. Nexstar cited a commitment to maintaining respectful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}