{"id":2041964,"date":"2025-09-22T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041964"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:02:30","slug":"charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-urges-abc-affiliates-not-to-carry-jimmy-kimmel-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-urges-abc-affiliates-not-to-carry-jimmy-kimmel-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk\u2019s Turning Point USA urges ABC affiliates not to carry &#8216;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2FCOMP-Kimmel1-1.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Charlie Kirk\u2019s Turning Point USA urged ABC-TV affiliates not to carry \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 when it returns to the airwaves Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Kolvet, the spokesman and executive producer of what had been Kirk\u2019s popular podcast before his assassination Sept. 10,\u00a0slammed the network and parent company Disney on Monday for \u201ccaving\u201d and allowing the embattled late-night host back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>ABC announced on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show would return on Tuesday, nearly a week after the program was pulled off the air. <span class=\"credit\">Jimmy Kimmel Live \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Andrew Kolvet, who is also the executive producer for \u201cThe Charlie Kirk Show,\u201d slammed the decision. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kimmel\u2019s show got yanked a week ago over shocking on-air remarks he made about MAGA supporters and Kirk\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisney and ABC caving and allowing Kimmel back on the air is not surprising, but it\u2019s their mistake to make,\u201d Kolvet tweeted minutes after the network revealed Kimmel would be returning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In an X post, Kolvet ripped Disney and ABC for \u201ccaving\u201d as Kimmel\u2019s show is set to return. <span class=\"credit\">X\/@AndrewKolvet<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University just moments before he was fatally shot. <span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNextstar and Sinclair do not have to make the same choice,\u201d he said of the conglomerates that own a bunch of ABC affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>The involuntary hiatus for Kimmel came as FCC Chair Brendan Carr floated taking federal action against the network and after Nexstar and Sinclair vowed not to carry the program on their stations.<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA was co-founded by Kirk and his widow, Erika Kirk, is now the CEO of the organization.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Kirk\u2019s Turning Point USA urged ABC-TV affiliates not to carry \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 when it returns to the airwaves Tuesday. Andrew Kolvet, the spokesman and executive producer of what had been Kirk\u2019s popular podcast before his assassination Sept. 10,\u00a0slammed the network and parent company Disney on Monday for \u201ccaving\u201d and allowing the embattled late-night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041965,"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":[25174],"tags":[24120,340116,21741,23060,345661,37798],"class_list":["post-2041964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-abc","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charlie-Kirks-Turning-Point-USA-urges-ABC-affiliates-not-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041964","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=2041964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}