Congrats ! Was this a Triumph of the First Amendment or the Almighty Dollar ?

Honestly, I haven't spent a lot of time following this beyond the headlines but as a free speech absolutist I would love for this to have been a victory for the First Amendment. But I also know I live in America and the Almighty Dollar must have had something to do with him being cut in the first place and being brought back. 🤷‍♀

I've said it before. ABC had no Plan B. The idea that they would rage cancel a major show in September, the beginning of the season, is patently insane. He wasn't going anywhere, because low ratings are better than no ratings.

I know people like to do this coincidence/causality thing. If it makes you feel better, fine. But it doesn't add up. ABC was being forced into a corner by Sinclair and Nexstar and my guess is they would play hardball next, revoking their ABC affiliation.

It's been a year since NBC started drawing down on Fallon, 4 new shows and 1 rerun per week. You'd best believe that CBS and ABC noticed. That's not done with a profitable show. And that was with Biden in the White House.

Things are absolutely NUTS in the industry right now(this was my 36th year in TV). I'm surprised that we have all four networks. What's more, I'm wondering which will go dark first and how long any of them can last.

Kimmel's show is enjoying a ratings death bounce, which is to be expected. It won't last, not because Kimmel is funny or not, late night's been dead and buried since the end of Letterman. Look for Colbert and Kimmel, etc. on the streamer of your choice sooner rather than later.

So... the executive branch applies economic pressure on a compagny to silence a person.
The public uses economic pressure to bring that person back on the screen.

For the executive branch, it's a first amendment issue.
But for the compagny, it has always been an economic issue... else they wouldn't have caved in to the executive branch in the first place.

I think it was a little bit of both. The public outcry of a very significant number of people who could impact their profits...yeah, mostly that.

It was undoubtedly the money. I'm sure advertisers told Sinclair and Nexstar were not going to pony up and sponsor a show no one was watching. If there were anything better for that hour someone would already be airing it.

But it's good that they showed us they can be bought. It means the next time the Government uses corporations to bully the people we know where their soft spot is. $$$

Almighty dollar it seems. I’m glad Jimmy had a powerful outcome.

I always liked him. He's cool this is good news.

I think Disney saw people fleeing Disney plus and realized they need to be more careful about this stuff.

There's a massive movement to push all media into direct government propaganda but this was an overstep. Toe the line.

A bit of both?

The dollar won. They all stood to lose and did lose huge amounts of money. The moral of the story: money is more powerful than God and Trump. 😞

Nexstar is considering reinstatement soon. Sinclair is not until conditions are met. Those conditions won't happen.

Please remember Sinclair is very much like Fox.

There is power in choosing where your dollar goes and Disney noticed the avalanche.

They got millions of complaint calls from people who didn't want to watch Steve Harvey's Family feud but the whole deal stinks,like a test run