tv is a wasteland of shit

That want to further the plather that is now called entertainment

I can see a future where Jimmy and Stephen and John join in a new 🆕 world of entertainment together

elites…

Will they give the spot to JD Vance? Everything is out of control in this hell.

what a bunch of precious little assholes the magats are.

Fascism is here. now, not soon.

Simon Schama, in “Citizens” (page181), describes the role of placards, songs, and cartoons parodying and ridiculing Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the years leading up to the Revolution. These were a source of information for the people of France about the corruption of the monarchy and laid the groundwork of popular sentiment leading to the Revolution.

Schama notes, to supply some important context of the alertness of the citizenry in pre-Revolutionary, “The literacy rates in the late eighteenth-century France were much higher than in the late twentieth century United States. ” Much of American society is perhaps too dumbed-down at this point to understand, resist, or perhaps even give a shit about what is happening in this country.

have lawyers don't they ? They just want aboard the trump train. Cowards

paid their bribes, but notably the several that refused the extortion won their cases.

Those that don't stand up to bullies, are as bad as the bullies.

They merely monitor and have regulations for the major networks

Re-runs of Fat Hitlers Inauguration?

is helping to shoot themselves in the foot.

At some point, all the U.S. Media will be destroyed except for FOX news which will become the ONLY Media and installed as the only State owned and operated Media allowed, not unlike PRAVDA in Russia..

might as well bring the '50s alive

It took CBS many years to get over The Smothers Brothers cancelation but they know not to give in and people would completely forget.

the nazi in the white house didn't like what VP Harris said.

Colbert should have Kimmel on as a guest.

This entire country is borked. That's it, I'm just gonna put my head down and play video games and watch TV for a while.

We are living in very dangerous times.

One of these days, they'll be having a prayer at midnight and sign off until 6am like they did a hundred years ago. ABC, NBC and CBS are broadcast dinosaurs. Hope you have access to PBS in your area. Of course you'll have sports.

There is no reason anyone should watch any of ABC's content or subscribe to any of it's services.

BTW Disney/ABC is all of these: ABC, ABC New,s Freeform, Disney Channel, Disney Jr., Disney XD, Onyx, Collective, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, FX, FXX, FX Movie Channel ...

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Citizenship day

and used an F bomb on the way out!

I was a little confused about what to do at the page where it leads. There didn't seem to be an obvious, "contact us" or "email us here" option on the screen.

What I decided to do was follow through on using all the drop-down options by making selections about another show on ABC.
This is what I sent:

"Just sort of stumbled on "High Potential" last season. Kaitlin Olson is great. Was very pleased with the season premier. Wow, what a cliffhanger! . . . Unfortunately, I will never find out what happens because of ABC's cowardly and hypocritical decision to "suspend" Jimmy Kimmel. Kaitlin Olson is great, but fascism is bad. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel."

Seriously, I was really looking forward to tuning in next Tuesday for the follow-up episode of "High Potential". But I'm not going to watch it, which shows how much I've matured since I was a kid and I used to beg my brother to let me tune into "Star Trek" reruns on the grainy signals we would get from the TV stations broadcast from the next market over from our hometown.

I also plan to stop watching "Ghosts" on CBS, which is my current light-hearted comfort show. I'm allowing myself to indulge the next season, but when Colbert goes, I go.

all around the US. They can't arrest ALL of us, can they?

Remove passports from organized groups (Democrats) protesting the Felon or the mother country, check. Display large banners of the Supreme leader, check. Send out the military to arrest citizens and incarcerate chosen males at the age of 14 to recieve the mark, check.
Kill foreigners the gov't. deems deserving without proof of criminality or trial, check.

Well lookee here, I do believe we have our very own dictatorship with virtual Iron Curtain.

punish anyone who doesn’t agree with them. How soon will they do it to The View?

The issue here is Nexstar, a media company that owns a lot of ABC affiliates. They are pre-empting airing Kimmel so ABC folded too. Nexstar has a questionable history but they keep getting bigger and more powerful. In the Harrisburg area they allowed an alleged sexual harasser to be in charge. Women ended up leaving the station.
An article from the time:

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2018/06/amanda_st_hilaire_abc27.html

ABC27 in Harrisburg is constantly running NewsNation ads - it's sickening.

That’s my station. Well, it was my station. I am so done. They gradually got me back after the argument with Flora Posteraro and the harassment suit. We never heard the end result of that. But now I’m done.

Wifey followed Chris Cuomo there. He's not too horrid. However Leland Vittert that follows him to me seems to be auditioning for Fox News (not surprising considering he is ex Fox News) every night and the content reflects that. Ashley Banfield is the one show I have zero problems with as it's not about politics at all (a true crime show).

But yeah Nexstar appears to me to be a right wing organisation. Not as bad as Sinclair.

Just because they repeat it a million times a day, doesn't make it remotely close to being true. NewsNation employs Bill O'Reilly. Enough said. The only good thing to say about them is their ratings are almost nonexistent. Practically NOBODY watches them.

As for Nexstar, it's true (at least at this point) that they're not as bad as Sinclair because they don't force the local stations to air their self produced right wing propaganda. But after this, that may be coming soon.

government approval. Shades of the Paramount situation. Gotta please trump and MAGA. They’re going to own all media.

Life is not normal, stop acting as though it is. Every moment, every choice is a protest, start acting like it. No home projects, no special trips. Live like it's WWII and your Country needs your sacrifice to survive. We survived the Covid shutdown. Let's call this the "we're not gonna take it" shutdown. Save your money, your going to need it. This is not a test, not a practice run.

because health experts are already saying don't go to Florida because of their non vaccination policies. So now their tourist industry will take a hit just like Vegas did.

If ABC affiliates won't air what the ABC Network produces, then the ABC Network is out of business.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to yank ABC affiliates' station licenses if they continued to air Kimmel, so the ABC affiliates owned by NexStar took Kimmel off the air. Nexstar owns America’s largest local television broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with more than 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people. https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-affiliates-to-preempt-jimmy-kimmel-live-indefinitely-beginning-tonight/ NexStar needs FCC approval for their upcoming $6.2 Billion merger with Tegna. https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-show-cancelled-charlie-kirk-2131747

It's CBS and Paramount all over again.

Nexstar only owns 23 ABC stations. ABC has no reason to care about whether Nexatar's merger is approved or not. 90% of their stations are not impacted by anything Nexstar does. The FCC may try to pull broadcast licenses but they will not succeed because they have no legitimate cause to. Trump would lose in court.

This is nothing like the Paramount situation who wanted a merger approved. ABC is not trying to merge with anyone. This is strictly personal because Kimmel has so successfully made fun of Trump.

No station wants to get in an expensive the lawsuit with the FCC. It is much easier for them to just drop Kimmel.

From 5 different sources so I don't know which number if any of them is accurate. But let's say 33 is correct. ABC has 250 stations. That means Nexstar owns at most 13% of ABC stations. So no, 33 or 13% isn't anywhere close to being significant.

ABC yanked Kimmel after the Nexstar affiliates said they would no longer air him.

And they didn't want a rush to judgement from a truly significant number of affiliates to pull the show before ABC or Kimmel himself even had a chance to address the situation. It had nothing to do with Nexstar's merger. ABC has no stake in that. The people who were trying to tie it to that were just dead wrong.

If the FCC was breaking the first amendment, they should be fighting it not bending over.

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“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Carr said during an appearance with podcaster Benny Johnson. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

Brendan Carr emphasized that ABC and its affiliates must meet obligations tied to their licenses. “They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest,” he said.

The owners aren't Trump poodles, but they don't want to lose their business either.

Jimmy will land on his feet somewhere else, I'm sure of it. But if ABC loses all those viewers, it's bye-bye advertisers.

So many people are suddenly out of a job. They can't count on support from their own employer. Silencing dissent. Scary.

ABC has destroyed any last vestige of credibility it may have had. They capitulated to Trump's bullying before. Now they're not even pretending to fight -- ABC has instantaneously degraded into a puddle of ooze at Trump's feet.

Just wait till Jon Stewart hears about this. This is a thing now. Censorship! Freedom of Speech. First Stephen Cobert and now Jimmy Kimmel. They're taking out the comedians now. This is definitely some kind of turning point. A canary in the coal mind moment. All this because a prick dictator wannabe can't take a joke. David Letterman just to my mind.

of course, we can't have anyone speaking the truth, or criticizing the reich or it's members.

Happy Constitution day y'all ...... won't be around much longer.

Who will be next?

Not sure it even matters cause the masses just continue to accept this totalitarian take over.

they have to have their shit shows and fascist fb

I shit canned Paramount Plus after more than a decade when they kowtowed and paid Trump off. Fuck em....

The story dropped shortly before they tape at 5:00.

I have been saying for some time that CBS will probably pull his show sooner than was originally planned. I hope I am wrong.

They'll let him go until May because of his HUGE ratings.........

JFC
Sht just got even more real.

We are headed for some sort of meltdown I fear. From the ashes rises a phoenix. I hope it’s the one we need to get this country going in the correct direction. Cause right now we are so fckd.

This is a fascist state.

I love a Jimmy Kimmel he has a great show. Shame on ABC and Disney for being so scared of truthful constructive criticism !

2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and a few others pretty much is dying. Paid streaming is the ultimate goal. I know that the end of times people are controlling in the USA right now, but even they don’t trust each other, and unfortunately we, the sane, are in the chaos.

Nightly shows like Colbert and Kimmel will be back.

ABC: shame, shame, shame. You are more interested in your fucking profits than in the Constitution of the United States. I, for one, will not buy the products used on your programming to support you.

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Fucking cowards. I hope they lose many, many millions.

Kirk.

During the Kirk news and fallout, the Senate quietly voted not to release the Epstein Files.,
Just saying…

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He didn’t even criticize Kirk. How is stating the truth about MAGA "offensive"?? FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC and got him taken off the air.

The American experiment with a free speech Democracy is now OVER.

that is all I have

This is ridiculous what he said was simply fact. It’s the way he mocked Trump about it right after

In just a few months we have descended into banana republic territory. I'm disgusted by all these parent corporations that don't have the guts to stand up to the MAGA regime. It appears that integrity and doing what is right went out the window years ago. I was thinking of the courage it took Katherine Graham to allow the publication of the content of the Pentagon Papers, and the Watergate story written by Bernstein and Woodward.

Fuck the FCC

donnie, we can fuck Satan the easy way or the hard way. And no, the soft way isn't an option.

...was that it was delayed a few hours. For extra legal scrutiny perhaps?

Somehow I don't find that reassuring. But, these guys are fearless and billionaires.

This 100% Fascism.

NOW.

No constitutional protections or civil protections.

They will silence us, jail us and send us to some country to die .

Hit 'em where it hurts. We're already paying illegal tariffs with the money going to billionaires and select families. Now the Autocratic Bullshit Company along with the Conservative Batshit Socialists is telling us what we can say and to whom. Ok, we don't need to say or support ABC, CBS or their sponsors any longer.
We need names of Corporate Big Wigs and a list of all sponsors to complain to AND about. They need publicly embarrassed!

When Cracker Barrel righties complained, corporation listened because the right actually did something. WIll the left pull a Merrick Garland? I'd put money on it.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel…. Probably Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon will be next. I love those shows that mix political commentary with humor. They are all truth-tellers, so of course the MAGA Nazis have to silence them. This makes me so sick, and ashamed of this country.