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This is part of Disney’s legacy now

DATE POSTED:September 22, 2025
An illustration depicting an array of tube televisions. One television screen shows a distorted image of Jimmy Kimmel while all of the other screens show TV static.

When Disney-owned ABC put Jimmy Kimmel Live on indefinite suspension, the broadcaster's logic was easy to understand: Kimmel's joke - a riff on the way Donald Trump started talking about construction on the White House's new ballroom after being asked how he felt about Charlie Kirk being shot - was mild. But the bit prompted Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr to threaten pulling the broadcast licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel's late-night show.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said in an interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. "These companies can find wa …

Read the full story at The Verge.