Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
Or, maybe it is more of the Kimmel overview that the network dislikes. Nexstar cancelled the Kimmel showing and I assume Nexstar represents most of the affiliate stations. What the affiliates want is a big deal at the networks.
The first story I read about this yesterday highlighted the fact that Nexstar and Sinclair (both major owners of affiliate stations) decided to drop Kimmel's show from their stations for an undetermined amount of time and that ABC/Disney then decided to do the same on the network level, again for an undetermined amount of time which would lead one to believe that something about the show would be fixed and everything would return to normal.
Subsequent stories then sort of ignored the Nexstar/Sinclair angle and focused on blaming the Trump administration. That leaves me wondering which focus is true, is ABC working on making changes to one of their offerings to appease their affiliates or is the government canceling programming they don't like? It appears most folks are automatically choosing option 2.