The current failure of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is halfway.
Sinclair, one of the two main groups of stations that preferred the talk show earlier this month, allows the show to return to its ABC stations on Friday evening.
This means that Kimmel will be revised in big cities like Washington, DC and Seattle, as well as a few dozen other markets across the United States.
Nexstar, the other group of major stations behind Kimmel, did not immediately respond to CNN’s request to comment whether this will end the politically loaded pre -emption.
Nexstar and Sinclair, who together have around 20% of ABC stations on a national level, were accused of having tried to create the favor with President Trump and the regulator of the Brendan Carr television channel, keeping Kimmel out of the air even after ABC has reintegrated the national program earlier this week.
Sinclair said in a statement on Friday that “our decision to pre -empt this program was independent of any government interaction or influence”.
The pre -emption began last week when Carr looked at a conservative outcry on the September 15 monologue of Kimmel about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk by condemning the late evening host and threatening local station licenses.
Nexstar and Sinclair informed ABC that he was pulling Kimmel from his stations, which led ABC to pre -empt the show nationwide.
Sinclair said at the time that ABC’s pre -emption was “not sufficient” and said that it would not bring the show as long as “official discussions will take place with ABC concerning the commitment of the network towards professionalism and responsibility”.
Sinclair also called Kimmel to apologize to the Kirk family and make a donation to the conservative political organization of Kirk, Turning Point USA, although the company did not say that it was a condition of ending the power failure.
Industry analysts said ABC, and not Sinclair, held most of the cards in the case because affiliates are bound by network contracts.
Friday, Sinclair said that he had discussions with ABC, but that the network had not accepted his proposals “to strengthen responsibility, comments from viewers and community dialogue, including an independent mediator on a network level”.
“Although ABC and Disney have not yet adopted these measures and that Sinclair respects their right to make these decisions under our network affiliation agreements, we believe that such measures could strengthen trust and responsibility,” added the company.
Thursday evening, Kimmel highlighted the continuous preemptions of his monologue.
“Even if we are still preempted in 60 American cities on Tuesday, we had our second show the highest note in almost 23 years on the waves,” he said. “Our Tuesday evening monologue has more than 21 million views only on YouTube. And I mean that we could not have done it without you, Mr. President. Thank you very much. We had the Trump bump, and we appreciate it.”
