{"id":287167,"date":"2025-09-19T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287167"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:31:16","slug":"abc-suspends-jimmy-kimmel-live-indefinitely-after-charlie-kirk-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287167","title":{"rendered":"ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel Live Indefinitely After Charlie Kirk Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ABC\">ABC<\/a> has indefinitely suspended &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; after host <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>&#8216;s Monday monologue inaccurately linked the suspect in conservative activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=282797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Charlie Kirk Slain in Sniper Assault at Utah University\">Charlie Kirk&#8217;s fatal shooting<\/a> at a Utah event to Donald Trump&#8217;s MAGA movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move followed criticism from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brendancarrfcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FCC Chairman Brendan Carr<\/a>, who suggested potential regulatory action, and decisions by affiliates like Nexstar Media Group to drop the show, prompting Disney to halt nationwide broadcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, \u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d ABC and its local affiliates were listening. Within a matter of hours, ABC suspended Kimmel\u2019s show \u201cindefinitely,\u201d a stunning move that has raised serious First Amendment concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don\u2019t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke,\u201d the ACLU said in a statement. \u201cThe Trump administration\u2019s actions, paired with ABC\u2019s capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.\u201d &#8211;CNN<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirk&#8217;s widow, Erika Kirk, filed a $40 million defamation lawsuit against ABC, while the incident has drawn reactions from figures including Barack Obama and Ted Cruz on media accountability and free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J<strong>ames Christian Kimmel<\/strong>\u00a0(born November 13, 1967)\u00a0is an American television host and comedian. He is best known as the host and executive producer of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Kimmel_Live!\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a><\/em>. Kimmel has hosted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Primetime_Emmy_Award\">Primetime Emmy Awards<\/a>\u00a0three times, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/64th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards\">2012<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/68th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards\">2016<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/72nd_Primetime_Emmy_Awards\">2020<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Awards\">Academy Awards<\/a>\u00a0four times, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/89th_Academy_Awards\">2017<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/90th_Academy_Awards\">2018<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/95th_Academy_Awards\">2023<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/96th_Academy_Awards\">2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk&#8217;s widow, Erika Kirk, filed a $40 million defamation lawsuit against ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":287170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862,2811],"tags":[18190,18113,18191,12733,18114],"class_list":["post-287167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","category-politics","tag-brendan-carr","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-utah","tag-utah-valley-university"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287171,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287167\/revisions\/287171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}