{"id":2048222,"date":"2025-09-25T04:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2048222"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:15:21","slug":"sarah-mclachlan-performs-after-free-speech-stand-as-jimmy-kimmel-returns-to-some-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sarah-mclachlan-performs-after-free-speech-stand-as-jimmy-kimmel-returns-to-some-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah McLachlan performs after free speech stand as Jimmy Kimmel returns to some stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ABC&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/jimmy-kimmel-return-monologue-tonight-guests-1.7641750\"><em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>\u00a0returned<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0after a nearly weeklong suspension that triggered\u00a0a national discussion about freedom of speech, with\u00a0Sarah McLachlan\u00a0performing\u00a0as a surprise guest.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Canadian musician performed her new song <em>Better Broken\u00a0<\/em>after Kimmel\u00a0introduced her as a &#8220;very talented and, dare I say, valiant singer and songwriter.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, McLachlan cancelled a performance at the U.S.\u00a0premiere for her documentary\u00a0<em>Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery<\/em>, which was released\u00a0on Disney+ on Sept. 21,\u00a0&#8220;in support of free speech.&#8221; Disney is ABC&#8217;s parent company.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH |\u00a0McLachlan&#8217;s performance:<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sarah McLachlan \u2013 Better Broken\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PCJ4wb3Bg4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But not everyone got to see it, as two groups of ABC affiliates that denounced the late-night talk show host\u00a0last\u00a0week said they would not carry Kimmel&#8217;s\u00a0return.<!-- --> <\/p>\n<p>Nexstar Media Group \u2014 which operates 32 ABC affiliate stations in the U.S.\u00a0\u2014 said\u00a0it would continue to pre-empt the show, &#8220;pending assurances that all\u00a0parties are committed to fostering an environment of respectful,\u00a0constructive dialogue in the markets we serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair Broadcast\u00a0Group \u2014 the country&#8217;s largest ABC affiliate operator \u2014 also said it would\u00a0keep Kimmel off its stations.<\/p>\n<p>The two\u00a0corporations collectively control about one-quarter of ABC affiliates in the United States.\u00a0Citytv, which is owned by Rogers Communications and holds the Canadian rights to Kimmel&#8217;s show,\u00a0confirmed to CBC\u00a0News that they will resume broadcasting it\u00a0on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<h2>McLachlan performs<\/h2>\n<p>Actor Glen Powell was originally the sole celebrity scheduled to appear on Kimmel&#8217;s Tuesday broadcast, but\u00a0McLachlan posted on Instagram on Tuesday that she would be joining the show.<\/p>\n<p>McLachlan\u00a0spoke about\u00a0her weekend performance\u00a0cancellation at the Ford Theater in Los Angeles, saying\u00a0it was not an easy decision to make.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a gift for all of us to see [this documentary], but also I&#8217;ve grappled with being here tonight and around what to say about the present situation that we are all faced with,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\" custom content\" class=\"customHtml\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She referred to &#8220;the insidious erosion of women&#8217;s rights, of trans and queer rights and\u00a0the muzzling of free speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for McLachlan noted\u00a0she was already slated to appear on Kimmel&#8217;s show to promote her new album before the host was pulled from the air.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, Kimmel made his first\u00a0comments on social media since his show was pre-empted.<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, he shared a photograph of himself with writer, producer and activist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/norman-lear-obituary-dead-1.7050423\">Norman Lear<\/a>. In a tribute to\u00a0the\u00a0<em>All in the Family<\/em>-creator, who died in 2023, Kimmel called him\u00a0&#8220;not only a giant in the world of television, but a great man who was one of the most important and impressive people I ever had the pleasure of meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\" custom content\" class=\"customHtml\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lear was outspoken against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), \u00a0a government agency tasked with regulating radio, television and internet content. Lear\u00a0stated\u00a0the agency&#8217;s\u00a0adoption of &#8220;family viewing time&#8221; \u2014 an FCC-designated window in which programing must be\u00a0suitable for all age groups \u2014 was a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1976\/02\/24\/archives\/lear-assails-fcc-on-family-viewing-producer-says-it-should-have.html\">&#8220;deceit&#8221; and form of censorship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/norman-lear-producer-sitcoms-obituary-180983380\/\">the Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>, Lear was on former U.S. President\u00a0Richard Nixon&#8217;s &#8220;enemies list,&#8221;\u00a0the\u00a0goal of which then White House Counsel John Dean <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/articles\/richard-nixon-enemies-list-who-was-on-it\">said was\u00a0to<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Trump won his second term, Kimmel\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5JxELubSgJg\">joked on-air<\/a> that he was on the president&#8217;s &#8220;list of enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em><strong>WATCH | Former FCC chairman offers his take on suspension of\u00a0Kimmel&#8217;s show:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<span><span class=\"mediaEmbed\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui-container  \" data-cy=\"player-placeholder-ui-container\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-video-ui\" title=\"Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on the suspension of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7778;--max-height:800px\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui\">\n<div class=\"video-item video-card-overlay\" title=\"Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on the suspension of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-card-overlay-container\">\n<div class=\"video-info-container\">\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on the suspension of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"media-caption\">Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>ABC suspended\u00a0Kimmel\u00a0after comments he made in\u00a0a monologue last week, when\u00a0Kimmel said the U.S. had hit\u00a0&#8220;new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel made similar statements in his followup show the next night.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, FCC\u00a0chair\u00a0Brendan Carr appeared on\u00a0conservative podcaster Benny Johnson&#8217;s show, decrying Kimmel&#8217;s\u00a0words as\u00a0&#8220;appearing to directly mislead the American public&#8221; about the alleged shooter&#8217;s political affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can do this the easy way or the hard way,&#8221; Carr said on the podcast, hinting that the FCC has &#8220;remedies that [they] can look at,&#8221; even as market pressures that could lead to Kimmel&#8217;s firing mounted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action, frankly, on Kimmel. Or, you know, there&#8217;s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Nexstar\u00a0said they would replace <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0<\/em>with other programming. Sinclair then said they would do the same in a statement <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-live-replaced-charlie-kirk-tribute-sinclair-apology-1236522789\/\">thanking Carr<\/a>, before ABC announced they were pre-empting Kimmel&#8217;s show entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was followed by posts by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social, saying the move was\u00a0&#8220;great news for America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Debates around free speech<\/h2>\n<p>Some characterized Carr&#8217;s\u00a0involvement as government overreach. U.S. Sen.\u00a0Elizabeth Warren told celebrity.land on Thursday\u00a0that &#8220;we know there was federal interference&#8221; given Carr&#8217;s appearance on Johnson&#8217;s podcast. Earlier, she took to X to compare ABC pre-empting Kimmel&#8217;s show with\u00a0Paramount cancelling Stephen Colbert \u2014 a\u00a0decision they made\u00a0shortly after Colbert criticized Paramount for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/02\/business\/media\/paramount-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit.html\">settling a defamation case with Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount said they made the move for purely financial reasons, but were also in late stages of a merger with the company Skydance\u00a0\u2014 a move the FCC could have blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Warren <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/warren-sanders-wyden-open-investigation-into-whether-paramount-is-engaging-in-bribery-with-trump-for-approval-of-8-billion-megamerger\">opened an investigation in May<\/a> into whether Paramount engaged in bribery with the Trump administration in order to secure the deal.\u00a0Both Carr and Paramount denied the two issues were related. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nexstar\u00a0is seeking a merger with station owner Tegna, which would also require FCC approval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First Colbert, now Kimmel,&#8221; Warren wrote Tuesday.\u00a0&#8220;Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multibillion-dollar mergers pending Donald Trump&#8217;s approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In reference to Kimmel, Senate Democrats <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/2025\/9\/commerce-committee-democrats-decry-carr-s-censorship-of-jimmy-kimmel\">issued a statement<\/a> claiming Carr &#8220;weaponized&#8221; the FCC to &#8220;act as a roving press censor, targeting broadcasters based on their political commentary.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/fcc-chairman-brendan-carr-downplays-role-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-1236526391\/\">New York appearance on Monday<\/a>, Carr denied that the FCC had any involvement in ABC removing the show, instead citing poor ratings as the reason Kimmel\u00a0&#8220;is in the situation that he&#8217;s in.&#8221;<\/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.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC&#8217;s Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0returned\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0after a nearly weeklong suspension that triggered\u00a0a national discussion about freedom of speech, with\u00a0Sarah McLachlan\u00a0performing\u00a0as a surprise guest. 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