Donald Trump may be irate at ABC for reinstating Jimmy Kimmel , but he still won’t find the late-night talk host’s show on the airwaves in Washington, D.C.
That’s because the ABC affiliate, WJIA-TV , is among the Sinclair -owned stations that are still declining to air the late-night talk show.
Instead, what viewers saw on Tuesday was a “special edition” of 7News On Your Side , the station’s nightly newscast. There was no announcement at the outset, although a news ticker featured the headline that Sinclair and Nexstar had decided to preempt Kimmel.
Instead, the newscast, anchored by Scott Thuman, led with a story on a “lost” cemetery in Cheltenham, MD, where the graves of Black children, dating to the 19th century, are being rehabilitated. Those interred came from a nearby r