Free speech supporters slam decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published September 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM MDT

FILE - Jimmy Kimmel appears at the Disney/ABC/Freeform 2018 Upfront Party in New York on May 15, 2018. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Bob Corn-Revere, chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, about Disney’s decision to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air indefinitely.

The head of the Federal Communications Commissioner objected to Kimmel’s remarks Monday about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and two major stations groups that are licensed by the FCC and carry Kimmel’s show decided to drop the program from its lineups.

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