{"id":2037519,"date":"2025-09-20T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2037519"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:52:15","slug":"as-nexstar-and-sinclair-take-on-disney-over-jimmy-kimmel-the-fcc-is-happy-but-will-it-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/as-nexstar-and-sinclair-take-on-disney-over-jimmy-kimmel-the-fcc-is-happy-but-will-it-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"As Nexstar and Sinclair Take on Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC Is Happy \u2014 But Will It Backfire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did the Nexstar<\/a> and Sinclair station groups overplay their hands by aggressively taking on Disney this week? The decision to yank \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d off their ABC affiliates \u2014 repping a combined 25% of the TV audience \u2014 may have an impact on several fronts, including the relationship between Disney and those two station groups moving forward, as well as the ongoing debate over loosening or abolishing the nationwide TV station ownership cap.<\/p>\n

Nexstar is looking to acquire fellow station group Tegna<\/a> in a $6.2 billion deal, and many insiders in broadcasting believe that the company\u2019s decision to pre-empt Kimmel (which led to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did the Nexstar and Sinclair station groups overplay their hands by aggressively taking on Disney this week? The decision to yank \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d off their ABC affiliates \u2014 repping a combined 25% of the TV audience \u2014 may have an impact on several fronts, including the relationship between Disney and those two station groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2037520,"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-2037519","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\/As-Nexstar-and-Sinclair-Take-on-Disney-Over-Jimmy-Kimmel.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037519","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=2037519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}