On Tuesday night, viewers in more than 60 U.S. markets couldn’t watch “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — his first show back after a weeklong suspension by Disney — on their local ABC stations. The Kimmel boycotts by two big TV station groups, Sinclair and Nexstar, clearly drove many fans in those areas to watch his monologue on YouTube, where ABC posted it around midnight ET. It quickly became the show’s most-viewed video on the platform so far in 2025.
Ostensibly, Sinclair and Nexstar are refusing to air “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in protest of comments Kimmel made last week about Charlie Kirk’s killer. (Sinclair and Nexstar aired news programming on
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