Jimmy Kimmel Live! Returns, But Not on These 66 Nexstar- and Sinclair-Owned Local Stations

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After ABC lifted its astir week-long suspension connected Monday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns to airwaves Tuesday … benignant of. Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group, 2 of the largest owners of ABC affiliate TV stations successful the United States, volition inactive indefinitely preempt the show.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, that amounts to a full of 66 ABC stations successful the U.S. that volition not transportation Kimmel’s amusement for the clip being.

“We made a determination past week to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! pursuing what ABC referred to arsenic Mr. Kimmel’s ‘ill-timed and insensitive’ comments astatine a captious clip successful our nationalist discourse,” Nexstar announced successful a connection Tuesday. “We basal by that determination pending assurance that each parties are committed to fostering an situation of respectful, constructive dialog successful the markets we serve. In the meantime, we enactment that Jimmy Kimmel Live! volition beryllium disposable nationwide connected aggregate Disney-owned streaming products, portion our stations volition absorption connected continuing to nutrient section quality and different programming applicable to their respective markets.”

Meanwhile, Sinclair announced connected Monday that they would aerial quality programming alternatively of Kimmel’s show. “Discussions with ABC are ongoing arsenic we measure the show’s imaginable return,” the institution stated.

Kimmel received blowback for his monologue connected his September 15th occurrence wherever helium commented connected the imaginable governmental allegiances of the alleged assassin of blimpish activistic and podcaster Charlie Kirk.

The monologue sparked the ire of Federal Communications Commission seat Brendan Carr, a Trump Administration appointee who suggested connected a podcast that the broadcast licenses of ABC and its affiliates could perchance beryllium revoked implicit the matter.

Almost instantly aft Carr’s remarks some Nexstar and Sinclair – some of which person respective merger deals successful the works that necessitate FCC support – announced they would preempt Kimmel’s program, starring Disney-owned ABC to suspend Kimmel indefinitely.

ABC reinstated Kimmel’s amusement connected Monday aft galore movie and TV talents successful beforehand of and down the camera that person worked with Disney, similar Star Wars’ Mark Hamill and She-Hulk’s Tatiana Maslany, either threatened to ne'er enactment with Disney again oregon urged their followers to cancel their Disney+, Hulu and ESPN subscriptions for what they deemed ABC cowing to authorities unit to stifle citizens’ First Amendment rights.

So which U.S. cities and TV stations are impacted by Nexstar and Sinclair’s ongoing pre-emption? See the afloat lists below.

These are the Nexstar affiliate cities and stations pre-empting Jimmy Kimmel Live!:

Nashville, TN WKRN
Salt Lake City, UT KTVX
Hartford / New Haven, CT WTNH
Harrisburg, PA WHTM
Grand Rapids, MI WOTV
New Orleans, LA WGNO
Richmond, VA WRIC
Knoxville, TN WATE
Albany, NY WTEN
Syracuse, NY WSYR
Burlington, VT WVNY
Tri-Cities, TN-VA WJHL
Augusta, GA WJBF
Evansville, IN WEHT
Lansing, MI WLAJ
Youngstown, OH WYTV
Rockford, IL WTVO
Lubbock, TX KAMC
Topeka, KS KTKA
Midland / Odessa, TX KMID
Panama City, FL WMBB
Sioux City, IA KCAU
Joplin, MO KODE
Erie, PA WJET
Terre Haute, IN WAWV
Binghamton, NY WIVT WBGH-CD
Wheeling, WV - Steubenville, OH WTRF
Billings, MT KSVI
Dothan, AL WDHN
Utica, NY WUTR
Clarksburg / Weston, WV WBOY
Watertown, NY WWTI

These are the Sinclair cities and stations pre-empting Jimmy Kimmel Live!:

Abilene-Sweetwater KTXS
Amarillo, TX KVII
Amarillo, TX KVIH
Birmingham, AL WABM
Birmingham, AL WBMA
Birmingham, AL WDBB
Champaign - Springfield - Decatur, IL WICD
Champaign - Springfield - Decatur, IL WICS
Charleston - Huntington, WV WCHS
Charleston, SC WCIV
Chattanooga, TN WTVC
Columbus, OH WSYX
Dayton, OH WKEF
Eureka KAEF
Florence - Myrtle Beach, SC WPDE
Greensboro - High Point - Winston
Salem, NC WXLV
Greenville - Spartanburg, SC / Asheville, NC / Anderson, SC WLOS
Greenville-N.Bern-Washington WCTI
Lincoln - Hastings - Kearney, NE KHGI
Lincoln - Hastings - Kearney, NE KHGI-CD
Lincoln - Hastings - Kearney, NE KWNB
Lincoln - Hastings - Kearney, NE KWNB-LD
Little Rock - Pine Bluff, AR KATV
Macon, GA WGXA
Mobile, AL / Pensacola, FL WEAR
Ottumwa, IA / Kirksville, MO KTVO
Portland, OR KATU
Quincy, IL / Hannibal, MO / Keokuk, IA KHQA
Roanoke - Lynchburg, VA WSET
Rochester, NY WHAM
San Angelo KTXE-LD
Seattle - Tacoma, WA KOMO
St. Louis, MO KDNL
Traverse City - Cadillac, MI WGTQ
Traverse City - Cadillac, MI WGTU
Traverse City - Cadillac, MI WPBN
Traverse City - Cadillac, MI WTOM
Tulsa, OK KTUL
Washington, DC WJLA

Jimmy Kimmel Live! isn’t the lone TV amusement that often criticizes the Trump Administration to instrumentality this week. South Park volition besides aerial a caller occurrence tomorrow, though co-creator Matt Stone emphasized that “no 1 censored us” and they were simply precocious finishing the episode.

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