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Nexstar and Sinclair Lost Their Game of Chicken
Broadcast-media companies may be growing, but they still couldn’t afford to reject Jimmy Kimmel forever.
When ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air last week after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the obvious way to understand the story was that it was an attack on free speech. Yet Kimmel’s suspension also reflected something else: a flex by the broadcast-media companies Nexstar and Sinclair, which, over the past two decades, have acquired hundreds of local TV stations, and together own roughly 20 percent of all ABC affiliates. When ABC brought Kimmel back this week, both Nexstar and Sinclair refused to air the show, and put on local programming instead.
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