{"id":2203098,"date":"2025-12-17T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2203098"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:31:10","slug":"fcc-chair-deflects-responsibility-on-kimmel-says-agency-is-not-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fcc-chair-deflects-responsibility-on-kimmel-says-agency-is-not-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chair Deflects Responsibility on Kimmel, Says Agency Is Not Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In a testy and often heated hearing Wednesday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042869\/\">FCC<\/a> Chair <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1419715\/\">Brendan Carr<\/a> did not take responsibility for his statements about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0453994\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> ahead of his late night show being pulled from the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at the evidence, the express statements by every single company involved, from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0982204\/\">Nexstar<\/a> to Sinclair to Disney, as recently as last week, is that they made these business decisions on their own,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n<p>After comments Kimmel made on his late night show about the assassination of conservative activist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6135760\/\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>, Carr appeared to threaten the licenses of ABC affiliates that broadcast <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0320037\/\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> in a Sept. 17 appearance on a conservative <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0202446\/\">YouTube<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we see stuff like this, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead,\u201d Carr said at the time.<\/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>In a testy and often heated hearing Wednesday, FCC Chair Brendan Carr did not take responsibility for his statements about Jimmy Kimmel ahead of his late night show being pulled from the air. \u201cYou look at the evidence, the express statements by every single company involved, from Nexstar to Sinclair to Disney, as recently as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2203099,"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-2203098","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\/12\/FCC-Chair-Deflects-Responsibility-on-Kimmel-Says-Agency-Is-Not.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203098","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=2203098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203100,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203098\/revisions\/2203100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}