BREAKING: ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Off The Air

ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live from the air effective immediately. The announcement follows a stunning monologue in which Kimmel baselessly claimed the gunman who murdered prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a “MAGA supporter.”

The statement came shortly after broadcasting giant Nexstar Media Group, which owns and operates more than 200 television stations in 116 U.S. markets, announced Wednesday that it will be pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its affiliates.

“Nexstar’s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show.  Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets,” the company announced in a statement.

Nexstar’s vast media portfolio reaches about 39 percent of American households, primarily through affiliations with major networks like ABC, CBS, Fox and others.

Not long afterwards, the network confirmed that it will be pulling the late night talk show outright, according to a report from Wall Street Journal media reporter Joe Flint. “Disney’s ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely after late night host’s recent remarks about Charlie Kirk,” Flint reported. “Move comes as ABC affiliate groups told network they would be dropping the host.”

In his monologue Monday night, Kimmel advanced the baseless lie that Tyler Robinson, the accused assassin, was a “MAGA” supporter despite a plethora of evidence to the contrary.

“We had some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel stated without any evidence to support the alleged gunman’s “MAGA” views.

“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism. But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this,” he added before cutting to an out-of-context clip to claim Trump hardly cared about Kirk’s murder. “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, okay?”

The move follows extensive backlash against ABC and parent company Disney over Kimmel’s remarks, which he refused to retract or apologize for. The show’s advertisers were also being faced with intense scrutiny and widespread calls to drop Kimmel’s show.