The Battle of Jimmy Kimmel is over, but the war between networks and affiliates wages on. Kimmel is once again on the air throughout the country now that rebellious affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair have backed down and agreed to resume airing his ABC late-night show after a weeklong standoff.
Kimmel was benched for three nights by ABC after Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened to punish the network over comments the host made in a monologue. Carr lashed out at Disney after Kimmel noted that the right wing was trying to “characterize the kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,
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