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   On 9/23/2025 12:30 PM, MikeJ wrote:   
   > Ed P  wrote in news:10au7ke$31221$2@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> On 9/23/2025 8:28 AM, Frank wrote:   
   >>> On 9/22/2025 8:10 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:   
   >>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:57:36 -0400, Ed P  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Looks like The First Amendment out powered the MAGA censors.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> For now. The country probably isn't safe just yet.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Disney/ABC was losing a lot of business too, as they should have.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Absolutely.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Forget the MAGA crap.  It is all about money.  Works out to   
   >>> probably a lose lose for Disney.  MAGA is laughing saying the left   
   >>> eats their own.   
   >>>   
   >>> Jimmy Kimmel's average viewership in the first half of 2025 was   
   >>> around 1.77 million total viewers, placing his show second in   
   >>> late-night television behind Stephen Colbert. While this was a   
   >>> significant decline from 2015, when his show averaged 2.4 million   
   >>> viewers, it was still higher than Jimmy Fallon's average viewership.   
   >>>   
   >>> Approximately 200 to 250 people work on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the   
   >>> show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, according to sources from late September   
   >>> 2025.   
   >>>   
   >>> Jimmy Kimmel reportedly made about   
   >>> $16 million per year from his role as host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!   
   >>> before the show's suspension in September 2025.   
   >>   
   >> Sure, money is a big factor.  But they tried to ignore the First   
   >> Amendment and use the government to shut him up.   
   >   
   > You're wrong.  This has nothing to do with the First Amendment.  If it   
   > did, Nexstar and Sinclair would be taken to court for preempting that   
   > crappy, boring, show.   
      
   They caved under pressure from the MAGA FCC   
      
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