I think the ability to shut one’s mouth for a little while is an under appreciated ability. I don’t doubt for a second Kimmel was concerned not just about his career but of the staff and crew of his show.
But what about MAGA station owners Sinclair and Nexstar? One of them wanted Kimmel to make a sizable donation to St. Charlie’s propaganda mill.
I was thinking about all of these corporate jawboning situations earlier today. From a narrow, but important, perspective, any of these CEOs who steward a publicly-traded (probably not only publicly-traded corporations) almost surely has a fiduciary obligation to its shareholders to maximize profit.
If “standing up for a principle” is, by far, the less profitable path (for argument’s sake), then they could theoretically be vulnerable to a shareholder lawsuit.
Very few of us expect Corporate America to do the right thing. It’s possible, though, that it isn’t solely about the nature of the beast and unbridled avarice. It may also involve potential exposure.
I mentioned this to somebody when they asked me why the banks defrauded by Trump didn’t sue Trump themselves. Apart from a massive PR debacle, they could have exposed themselves to similar significant liability.
IANAL
Let’s just say that all three are terrific and leave it at that! 
I’ve respected John Oliver for a long time, and Jon Stewart even longer, ever since he transformed the original Daily Show into the institution that it became. My introduction to Kimmel is much more recent, but I’ve quite warmed to him. You gotta love Kimmel’s description of Trump answering how he felt about Kirk’s death with a one-liner and then immediately segueing into lavish praise for the new banquet hall he was building: “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
Very fair. You’re a gentleman and a scholar and their are few of us left.
Has Trump reacted yet to Kimmel’s return?
You know something I don’t?
Just this:
Well well well. Great news.
Man, if he issues any kind of serious-ish apology, then the cancer has spread beyond hope.
Not that I expect him to, but we live in unbelievable times. And still, fuck Disney and the corporate overlords I can’t fathom for caving in the first place.
Thank you for the link! Looks like I’m staying up late Tuesday and (tugs collar) tuning in to ABC.
LOL, I could actually visualize that, and I understood why! (As do we all, I’m sure.)
Is anyone else getting the odd tingling feeling that Jimmy Kimmel is starting to look a lot like this guy? That maybe the real way to bring MAGA to its knees is with a giant dose of snark?
Do we think Nexstar and Sinclair will back down and air Kimmel?
I have no prediction. It seems 50-50 to what as to what either will do.
Dang, Servant of the People was only four years ago but Zelenskyy looks so much younger back then!
I’ve long wondered if one (among many) reasons Trump doesn’t like Zelenskyy is because he doesn’t like comedians and doesn’t like political satire. So how dare a political satirist become a head of state!
Yeah, they’ll do whatever they feel like. They don’t have to put Kimmel back on any of their stations.
I seriously doubt that many (if any) of their viewers were actually calling for them to take down the show. The owners, being the asshole conservative they are, were just following Carr’s lead. But I imagine they did hear from the viewers who were pissed they did that. So I guess we will see.
Are all the ads already sold at fixed prices? If not, I’m thinking that, in anticipation of record ratings for Kimmel tomorrow, and likely high ratings on subsequent days, the commercials can be sold for high prices.
Is that correct? And would the extra revenue go to the network, the affiliates, or both?
If there is extra money going to the affiliates, they have an incentive to run Kimmel tomorrow, seeing how ratings and revenue compare with what they have seen over the past week.
For a (relatively) popular network show, yes, those ad spots would have been sold weeks to months ago, and those prices already set, based on expected audience sizes. So, no, ABC can’t suddenly jack up rates for tomorrow’s show, unless there was any unsold ad space (unlikely).
That said, for the past week, when ABC was running Family Feud reruns in that slot, if audiences wound up being substantially lower than what had been sold, ABC would have been liable for “make-goods” to advertisers on those days (usually given as extra runs of the advertisers’ ads).
Generally speaking, ad revenue for spots which run in the network’s ad pods during a show only go to the network. Affiliates make money on the local ad pods/breaks, which typically occur twice an hour during network programming.
But, again, there won’t be any “extra revenue” tomorrow night, because television ad sales don’t work that way; there generally isn’t “dynamic pricing.”
Your comment is what I’m worried about, Czarcasm. Trump’s reaction to ABC bringing Kimmel back.