Around 40 people gathered Tuesday around KOMO Plaza to advocate for free speech and protest the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s decision to preempt the return of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Seattle Indivisible, Defund Musk and Troublemakers — which make up Seattle’s Tesla Takedown coalition against billionaire Elon Musk — organized the demonstration after learning the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s affiliate stations will not televise the return of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and would be “replacing it with news programming,” said co-organizers Paul Bannon and Devin Hermanson.

Sinclair owns KOMO in Seattle.

Kimmel’s late night show was suspended following comments he made last week about pro-Trump conservatives trying to score “political points” in the aftermath of activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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