Claim 97

ABC and two large affiliate groups pulled or preempted the program within hours of Carr's remarks.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: ABC and two large affiliate groups pulled or preempted the program within hours of Carr's remarks.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Show suspended by ABC, Nexstar and Sinclair
About: incident 2025-fcc-pressure-precedes-kimmel-suspension
Source: FCC's Brendan Carr and the Kimmel suspension
Publisher: NPR
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2025-09-19

Quotation from the source

Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group...announced they would pull Kimmel's show indefinitely. Then, so did ABC.