On 9/23/2025 1:19 PM, MikeJ wrote:   
   > Ed P  wrote in news:10aui8p$3462h$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > No, they didn't.  It's about money.   
   >   
      
   Right, they fear the FCC effing up their merger.  They don't have the   
   balls to put the show back on so they show how much the love the FCC   
      
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