{"id":2032815,"date":"2025-09-18T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2032815"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:06:59","slug":"nexstar-denies-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-was-due-to-fcc-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nexstar-denies-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-was-due-to-fcc-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexstar Denies Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Was Due to FCC Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0982204\/\">Nexstar<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest station owner, denied on Thursday that it pulled \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0320037\/\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>\u201d off the air due to pressure from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042869\/\">FCC<\/a> Chairman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1419715\/\">Brendan Carr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced the decision hours after Carr threatened to take action against ABC affiliates over Kimmel\u2019s comments about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6135760\/\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u2019s killer. Carr also urged affiliates to preempt the show.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Nexstar\u2019s decision was in any way influenced by Carr\u2019s remarks, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13307973\/\">Gary Weitman<\/a>, the company\u2019s chief communications officer, said \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to preempt \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 was made unilaterally by the senior executive team at Nexstar,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nexstar, the nation\u2019s largest station owner, denied on Thursday that it pulled \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d off the air due to pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. The company announced the decision hours after Carr threatened to take action against ABC affiliates over Kimmel\u2019s comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s killer. Carr also urged affiliates to preempt the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2032815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nexstar-Denies-Jimmy-Kimmel-Suspension-Was-Due-to-FCC-Pressure.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}