The Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee is considered the Federal Communications Committee (FCC).

The veteran comedy late at night Make several notes on Monday and Tuesday about the reaction of the conservative activist, including saying that “many in Maga Land are working hard to benefit from the death of Charlie Kerk.”

ABC, which broadcast “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Since 2003, it has moved quickly after the Nexstar Communications Group said it would attract the show starting on Wednesday. Andrew Alford, head of the broadcasting department at Nexstar, said Kimmil’s comments about Kirk’s death were “abusive and not sensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse.” Nexstar runs 28 ABC.

Another company has 38 local TV stations, SanklerKimmel called for an apology to the Kirk family and preparing a “useful personal donation” of the activist’s political organization, Turn Point Usa. Senkler says its ABC stations will be in honor of Kirk on Friday in the Kimmel opening opening.

On the appearance of CNBC on Thursday, the head of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) chanted Brendan Carr by moves by the two groups of retreat against the network. While the Federal Communications Committee has no power on TV networks, it has the authority to suspend licenses of its individual stations in the local markets.

“We are reactivating the FCC enforcement of the public interest, and I think this is a good thing,” Car said.

There was no immediate comment from Kimmel, whose contract ended in May 2026. ABC’s statement was not martyred as a reason for the lack of relaxation.

President Donald Trump celebrated ABC’s move on social media. “Congratulations to ABC for the presence of courage in the end to do what to do,” he wrote.

On Wednesday, Car called Kimmel’s comments “really sick” and said that his agency has a strong issue of Kimmel, ABC and Network Parent Walt Disney A company responsible for publishing wrong information. He said that Al -Hazli appears to be making an intended effort to mislead the audience that the Kirk killer was a right -wing Trump.

During Monnouj Monday evening, Kimmel suggested that the suspect of Kirk’s killing, Tyler Robinson, may have been a pro -Trump Republican.

Kimmel said: “The Maga (she) gang is trying desperately describing this child who killed Charlie Kerk as anything other than one of them and did everything in his power to score political points from him.” “Between the formation of the finger, there was sadness.”

The authorities say that the 22 -year -old grew up in a conservative family in southern Utah, but was preserved in the “leftist ideology”. His parents told the investigators that he had turned into the left politically and in support of homosexuals last year. The voter situation is inactive, and that means He did not vote In two regular general elections. He told his transgender partner that he targeted Kirk because he “had enough hatred.”

Business scene around TV late at night

Both Disney and NexStar have FCC’s business in front of them. Disney is seeking an organizational approval to acquire the ESPN for the US Football Association, and Nexstar needs the blessing of the Trump administration to complete the purchase of $ 6.2 billion for the TEGNA broadcasting competitor.

For both companies, Kimmil after the comment would risk Trump angry, who has already claimed that the show was canceled.

Kimmel’s comment comes two months after the CBS announced that it was Cancel Stephen Kulbert’s offer May the following for financial reasons. But some critics asked whether his position on Trump played a role.

Kulbir and Kamil made the president the frequent goal of jokes. Shortly after COLBERT, FCC agreed to the Paramount deal for a long time with Skydance.

Trump has similarly celebrated the outcomes of Colbert.

Trump said in July. “His talent was less than his assessments. I heard Jimmy Kimmel the next.”

During the past year, Disney and CBS PAROLUNT chose to settle the lawsuits that Trump filed against its news departments instead of fighting it in court.

In a publication xThe Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) criticized the administration “to use the weight of the governmental authority to suppress the legal expression.”

“Other media outlets have withered under government pressure, ensuring that the administration continues to blackmail and broadcasters of broadcasters and publishers who criticize it,” said Ari Cohen, the main lawyer for technology policy at the Individual and Expression Corporation. “We cannot be a country where hosts of a dialogue program late at night with the president pleasure.”

The scene outside the Kimmel Studio after hanging the show

Kimmel left the Hollywood Theater, where it was recorded about three hours after ABC’s decision. He kept his head down when he entered a waiting car.

A fans were lined up outside the theater when they were told the Wednesday’s show.

“They have not told us what happened,” said Tommy Williams, a possible audience from Jacksonville, Florida. They just said that the show was canceled. ”

More than Kimmil said in his program

Kimmel said that Trump’s response to Kirk’s death, “How does a person grieve about the killing of someone called a friend. This is how 4 years old is barking, well?”

He also said that the FBI commander Cash Patel had dealt with an investigation into the killing “like a child who did not read the book, and he made his way through an oral report.”

He returned to the topic on Tuesday night, and mocked the performance of Vice President JD Vance as a guest host of Kirk.

He said that Trump was “admiring fire” by attacking people on the left. “What is it? Are they a handful of Sissy PickleBall players because they are very afraid that they will strike tennis balls? Or a good, well -organized team of commandos? Because they cannot be these.”

The move comes at a time when the president climbed, managed and his political party, their efforts Police speech about Kirk’s death. Vancer urged the Americans earlier this week to hand over the citizens who mocked the assassination.

It is also another effort by the administration to use its strength to rely on the media. Carr has launched investigations into the outlets that angered Trump, and the president sued several media organizations for negative coverage.

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This report contributed to this report in Los Angeles, journalists in Associated Press, Liam Macanan and Jimmy Ding, contributed to Los Angeles and Nicholas Ricardi in Denver.