(The Hill) -- Disney experienced a spike in cancellations for Disney+, the company's direct-to-consumer streaming service, and Hulu, which it owns, in response to its brief suspension of late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel last month, according to new data.

Figures from the audience data company Antenna found cancellations during the period after Kimmel was suspended totaled more than 7 million, representing a nearly doubling of the company's "churn rate," a term for the number of people who subscribe and unsubscribe to a service during a given timeframe.

Disney declined to comment.

Kimmel was suspended by ABC after he criticized conservatives for what he said was an effort to score "political points" off the death of activist Charlie Kirk and a joke about how President Donald Trump was respo

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