The Jimmy Kimmel blackout is completely over: Nexstar and Sinclair back down | CNN Business
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Sinclair and Nexstar, the two major station groups that preempted the talk show earlier this month, are allowing the show to return to their ABC-affiliated stations on Friday evening.

That was fast

  • Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 months ago

    From what I’ve learned several factors played a part in this.

    1. Contracts, the sinclair can only say no to disney so many times before disney can cut sinclair off things like NFL games, and other contents that sinclair wants access to
    2. Advertisers were pissed
    3. Lots of complaints from viewers.
  • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 months ago

    Sinclair is still a fascist-loving company and will never make a dollar of ad revenue off of me ever again. Sucks for me when a football game I want to see is on ABC (my local affiliate is Sinclair-owned), but otherwise anything worth seeing on ABC is available on YouTube. I’ve never really watched Kimmel, but now I watch and like his monologues on YouTube every day.

    • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      6 months ago

      Unless you’re a Neilsen household (or buying the advertised products), you watching OTA programming doesn’t really benefit Sinclair.

      I’d say give yourself grace and watch what you want.

      • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        This really isn’t true anymore with smart TVs. They take samplings of everything you’re watching all the time and send it back to the mothership. And I guarantee you that Sinclair and other stations buy that information from, say Samsung for example.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Or dvr the programming, use software to automatically cut out the ads, then watch it a bit after it airs. It’s not like watching it live impacts the outcome…

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 months ago

    While it’s great that the little bitch ass fascism supporter capitulated, well like a bitch, it’s important to remember they’re still supporters of fascism and the boycott should and must go on.

    Here’s a Sinclair and nexstar advertiser tracking site. Feel free to flip through the affiliate and log those local advertisers and let them know you don’t support fascism and you don’t support fascism enablers like them either and share it around.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    Fuck Sinclair. Everyone in a Sinclair market should start bombing their advertisers social media accounts telling them that they don’t appreciate the fact that they’re supporting a company that is trying to enable authoritarianism and thus undermine our Democracy.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    Lmao. All that matters is making money. They realized it would crush revenues, so they backed out

  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world
    110·
    6 months ago

    We have to boycott Jimmy. If he wasn’t a fascist Nazi, he wouldn’t have agreed to return. Jimmy is just another rich white dude playing all of you.