"Jimmy Kimmel will go back on air after his late-night show was pulled last week, Disney-owned broadcaster ABC announced on Monday. Kimmel's show is set to return on Tuesday night, after a weeklong impasse during which ABC faced backlash over its decision to cancel it, and close to $5bn was wiped from Disney's stock market value. The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, said in a statement on Monday that Kimmel's show had been indefinitely pulled off the air on September 17 to avoid escalating tensions during an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. The statement added further: We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."
"Experts say Disney's decision to bring Kimmel's show back on air was probably motivated by business interests, since many consumers were ending their subscriptions to Disney's streaming services. Consumers were exercising their own First Amendment rights and ending their subscriptions to the company's streaming services, Susan Campbell, a media studies professor at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, told the Reuters news agency. Kimmel's show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, is set to return on Tuesday night at its usual 11:35pm ET (Wednesday, 03:35 GMT) slot. It can be viewed on abc.com or streamed on Hulu. Sinclair, a major owner of local TV stations that operates more than 30 local ABC affiliates, said those, however, would replace Kimmel's show with news programming instead."
ABC reinstated Jimmy Kimmel's late-night program after suspending it on September 17 following comments about Trump and MAGA responses to Charlie Kirk's killing. Disney said the show was pulled to avoid escalating tensions and called some comments ill-timed and insensitive. The network reversed the decision after several days of conversations with Kimmel. The suspension coincided with close to $5bn wiped from Disney's market value and reports of subscribers canceling streaming services. Jimmy Kimmel Live! will air at its usual 11:35pm ET slot and stream on abc.com and Hulu, while some Sinclair-owned local affiliates plan to replace it with news programming. On September 10 Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, and Tyler Robinson, 22, was later arrested and charged with aggravated murder.
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