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After a suspension that lasted less than one week, Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC tonight.
Kimmel was pulled from the air on Wednesday of last week after FCC Chair Brendan Carr publicly applied pressure to ABC and its parent company, Disney.
Carr’s comments came in response to a joke in Kimmel’s monologue about reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk .
But while Kimmel’s team seems to have worked out an agreement with ABC and Disney, another corporation plans to prevent the show from airing in several major markets.
Sinclair Broadcast Group announces intention to ‘preempt’ Kimmel in key markets
Media giant Sinclair owns many local ABC affiliate stations, and the company announced on Monday that it will preempt Kimmel’s show in those areas.
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