Sinclair Broadcast Group is ending its preemption of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The Maryland-based owner of several major ABC network affiliates said Friday the late night program will return to its airwaves immediately. The station group pulled Kimmel off the air Sept. 17 following a backlash over the host’s comments related to the killing of right wing activist Charile Kirk.
Sinclair’s ABC stations include WJLA in Washington, D.C. and KOMO in Seattle.
Kimmel was pulled off the air by Sinclair and another station group, Nexstar, the same day Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr took aim at the host’s Sept. 15 monologue, in which Kimmel said MAGA Republicans were using Kirk’s death to “score political points” and were trying to categorize suspected shooter Tyler Robinson