Nexstar Stations will not be airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! in the host’s return to ABC.

If you don’t know, ABC and Disney announced that they were suspending Jimmy Kimmel ‘s show last week due to comments regarding Charlie Kirk ‘s passing, but yesterday, revealed that he’d be back on the airwaves on Tuesday (September 23) . A short time later, however, Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is one of the major broadcast channel owners in the country, announced plans to preempt JKL! on its ABC affiliates.

Now, another affiliate group, Nexstar, is joining Sinclair.

“We made a decision last week to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! following what ABC referred to as Mr. Kimmel ’s ‘ill-timed and insensitive’ comments at a critical time in our national discourse. We stand by that decisio

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