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Barb Pew's avatar

Nope, it's not over yet. Sinclair, who owns my local ABC station KOMO, refuses to air the show. I have written my local station and told them to get some balls. Scarier than that is that if the merger goes through, they will then own NBC CBS and ABC stations in my state.

As for the rest of it, I love you dearly, and are so grateful for all the names you've given that circus peanut. I wouldn't get through this without you.

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Will Gerard's avatar

Watch recorded clips on YouTube. Watch on-demand clips on abc.com. If Sinclair decides to never air his shows, they'll suffer. Let them suffer.

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Barb Pew's avatar

NBC national news just covered our local Seattle ABC station. Yep I do hope they suffer, I just hope that the merger, looking for approvals, that started all of this gets enough coverage also. Otherwise we will have all three major network stations in our state owned by the same company.

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David's avatar

The merger violates the "saturation" rule ( many places) the FCC sometimes enforces (I think Murdoch violated it often.) Local affiliates may be irrelevant soon, but if not they will not survive without ABC's slate of shows and sports. Though my local sinclair outlet seems to have 8 stations of recycled crap, including 1 or 2 religious snoozers. It was suggested on Wall Street that Disney stream ABC, and let Sinclair and Nexstar twist in the wind...

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Amethyst Darke's avatar

Hulu is already streaming it.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Same in Columbus Ohio (WSYX Channel 6)

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Barb Pew's avatar

40% of the ABC stations are owned by companies that will not allow Kimmel's show to return.

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RRiveter's avatar

Shouldn't and doesn't matter. Just stream the show once it hits streaming, and it will. Screw the networks across the board, as may be possible. They show crap anyways. You may have to delay your viewing, but you will see the show, probably for a fee, but you will have access to it. If ABC wants to continue to kiss ass and bend the knee, let them go for it and continue to lose revenue, and fall into obscurity.

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Barb Pew's avatar

I'm not paying a fee. And I doubt all the people that canceled their accounts in the last few days, we'll sign up again either. I agree with you that ABC doesn't have much that I watch.

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John Acerbi's avatar

Hulu is doing a next day viewing on a trial basis teaser.

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RRiveter's avatar

Streaming for pay is always a personal choice; whatever is good for you. But I do doubt that many folks wouldn't pay a one time rental fee to see his first show back. Who knows?

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John Acerbi's avatar

Same for KATU Portland

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John Acerbi's avatar

STATIONS NOT SHOWING:

Albany, NY (WTEN) – Nexstar

Amarillo, TX (KVII, KVIH) – Sinclair

Augusta, GA (WJBF) – Nexstar

Billings, MT (KSVI) – Nexstar

Binghamton, NY (WIVT/WBGH-CD) – Nexstar

Birmingham, AL (WBMA, WDBB) – Sinclair

Burlington, VT (WVNY) – Nexstar

Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, IL (WICD, WICS) – Sinclair

Charleston-Huntington, WV (WCHS) – Sinclair

Charleston, SC (WCIV) – Sinclair

Chattanooga, TN (WTVC) – Sinclair

Clarksburg/Weston, WV (WBOY) – Nexstar

Columbus, OH (WSYX) – Sinclair

Dayton, OH (WKEF) – Sinclair

Dothan, AL (WDHN) – Nexstar

Erie, PA (WJET) – Nexstar

Eureka, CA (KAEF) – Sinclair

Evansville, IN (WEHT) – Nexstar

Florence-Myrtle Beach, SC (WPDE) – Sinclair

Grand Rapids, MI (WOTV) – Nexstar

Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC (WXLV) – Sinclair

Greenville-N. Bern-Washington, NC (WCTI) – Sinclair

Greenville-Spartanburg, SC / Asheville, NC / Anderson, SC (WLOS) – Sinclair

Harrisburg, PA (WHTM) – Nexstar

Hartford/New Haven, CT (WTNH) – Nexstar

Knoxville, TN (WATE) – Nexstar

Lansing, MI (WLAJ) – Nexstar

Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney, NE (KHGI, KHGI-CD, KWNB, KWNB-LD) – Sinclair

Little Rock-Pine Bluff, AR (KATV) – Sinclair

Lubbock, TX (KAMC) – Nexstar

Macon, GA (WGXA) – Sinclair

Midland/Odessa, TX (KMID) – Nexstar

Mobile, AL / Pensacola, FL (WEAR) – Sinclair

Nashville, TN (WKRN) – Nexstar

New Orleans, LA (WGNO) – Nexstar

Ottomwa, IA / Kirksville, MO (KTVO) – Sinclair

Panama City, FL (WMBB) – Nexstar

Portland, OR (KATU) – Sinclair

Quincy, IL / Hannibal, MO / Keokuk, IA (KHQA) – Sinclair

Richmond, VA (WRIC) – Nexstar

Roanoke – Lynchburg, VA (WSET) – Sinclair

Rochester, NY (WHAM) – Sinclair

Rockford, IL (WTVO) – Nexstar

San Angelo, TX (KTXE-LD) – Sinclair

Salt Lake City, UT (KTVX) – Nexstar

Seattle-Tacoma, WA (KOMO) – Sinclair

Sioux City, IA (KCAU) – Nexstar

St. Louis, MO (KDNL)

Syracuse, NY (WSYR) – Nexstar

Terre Haute, IN (WAWV) – Nexstar

Topeka, KS (KTKA) – Nexstar

Traverse City-Cadillac, MI (WGTQ, WGTU, WPBN, WTOM) – Sinclair

Tri-Cities, TN-VA (WJHL) – Nexstar

Tulsa, OK (KTUL)

Utica, NY (WUTR) – Nexstar

Washington, D.C. (WJLA) – Sinclair

Watertown, NY (WWTI) – Nexstar

Wheeling WV-Steubenville, OH (WTRF) – Nexstar

Youngstown, OH (WYTV) – Nexstar

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Jeff's avatar

Hey Jo... I heard he isn't coming back to Sling in northern NJ. Guess we'll have to wait & find out. Happy New Year to my Jewish friends. Let's pray the future will be better & bone spur free.

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Mike Yochim's avatar

Shana Tova Jeff.

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Jeff's avatar

Shana Tove Sir. Bright & HEALTHY New Year ahead for you & Family

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Joan MacLeod's avatar

I loved how the escalator stopped working exactly when Trump and Melania stepped on itand then the teleprompter froze when Trump went to address the UN but then unfortunately the world leaders had to listen to the bullshit, lies and rants from the Tangerine Palpatine. I was embarrassed for your whole country because of Trump your country is a laughingstock and he continues to angry other countries.

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NRS STL's avatar

He's a national disgrace. And China, Russia, and now North Korea (!!) are sneering at him openly. Ugh.

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Jeff's avatar

Maybe someone dropped a Tylenol & the escalator went berserk. Either that or his fat ass was too much for the motor. He's mentally ill - what is his excuse?

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Joan MacLeod's avatar

lol

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RRiveter's avatar

Gee, if Tylenol caused autism, I should be in a locked ward, because I take it all of the time, I'm 73, and still kicking. Where in the hell he gets his assy info, no one knows, and frankly, no one cares.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

We are very embarrassed, but I never voted for him, and I’ll do everything in my power to see he leaves office sooner rather than later. If we retake the House, we can impeach him again, and maybe even the GOP will convict him this time. If they do, they won’t have to worry about his attacking them anymore.

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RRiveter's avatar

Please know Joan that at least half of the US are embarrassed by this charlatan, and fervently want him gone. We are not in the dark here. We simply do not have the governmental power at this time to see him out of the Oval, as our Congress is weak, afraid, and under his control. However, as some of our more aware Republican leaders say, the shoe will ultimately fall, times will change, and Congress will change. He and his minions, especially Carr of the FCC better lawyer up really fast, because all Hell will break loose when that happens. Not if, but when.

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Joan MacLeod's avatar

Oh, I know that and many are regretting their votes.

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Lee Annis's avatar

Next to the Epstein files, I'd like to see Trump's grades. I dont think they are as good as most of ours. Then again, we havent stopped Albanians from attacking Azarbaijanis like he has....

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Robot Bender's avatar

I heard he prevented the destruction of Aalderan, too. In twelve parsecs.

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Kimberly Ruiz's avatar

😆

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

His professor at Wharton said that he was the dumbest student he ever taught.

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RRiveter's avatar

Now that I could believe! His older sister, who is now passed on, had said the same thing. He was a failure at school, and had to pay someone with half a brain to take his SAT.

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Rita Parker's avatar

It's not over. Both Sinclair and Nextstar refuse to show Kimmel on the affiliates they have. These Maga fascists are going to die on this hill.

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JoJoFromJerz's avatar

I hope he goes scorched earth anyway

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Rita Parker's avatar

Absolutely. No inch given.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Oh, he will!😂😂

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Steve Brant's avatar

Then let them die … a slow, economic death because we refuse to buy from any of them! #NationalStrike

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Clarke Shaw's avatar

Boycott everything they own.

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NRS STL's avatar

And the sooner, the better. Aren't they all old men?

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RTN's avatar

Hopefully sooner rather than later.

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Steve Brant's avatar

I just read this…

“it was like watching a man try to sell Cutco knives to 193 world leaders, a performance so catastrophic the translators probably filed for hazard pay” …

and laughed out loud! 😂

And so… I’m a paid subscriber now! Thank you for bringing the spirit of George Carlin to the shit show of a world we’re living in now… one where we CAN beat the fascists! 👊☮️❤️🇺🇸

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Charles Austin's avatar

Welcome, Steve!😃

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Steve Brant's avatar

Thank you!

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ssimpson renewsystems.org's avatar

Great stuff per usual Jo. Thanks for making us laugh and helping us to keep fighting. We will take the win. Diet Coke isn’t a multivitamin?💙🙏S

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RRiveter's avatar

Of course it is! You can inject it, along with the bleach he thinks is so great for people. Just set up the IV, insert the needle, and turn on the bag drips.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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George Haile's avatar

Can't wait for the inevitable downfall of this deranged numbfuck and the other numbfuck asslickers that surround it. What a glorious fucking day for America that will be.

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NRS STL's avatar

And for the rest of the world. Ugh.

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Kevin Brice Peto's avatar

…”like watching democracy get grabbed by the pussy in broad daylight;”….

Can some talented cartoonist please make this into a drawing? Perhaps the Orange Menace going to grab the Statue of Liberty but she catches him over the head with her torch just before he gets away with it?

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Tom Schell's avatar

OMG Jojo the hits just keep on coming! You packed enough C-4 into this space to hopefully blow some brains into those without a brain stem.

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Tom Schell's avatar

You and Jack Hopkins together could sell out a world tour!

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Roxy Copenhagen's avatar

Here in Denmark we also canceled Disney etc. and I am so happy to see that it worked.

I think you are amazing, and we need you.

I am rooting for you here in Denmark 🇩🇰 ❤️ 🙌 👏 💪🏼 💙

(Now let's all go vegan - animals should have the right to live as well 💙🌱)

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Patty's avatar

Jo, as a grandmother of two granddaughters who are both around the age of 12; the age donOld thinks young girls are sexually active 😡 I’d just like to say WTAF? I guess we already know his thoughts on 12 year olds 🤢🤮 he is an evil, demented man, and your description of him fits perfectly. I may not be able to eat cottage cheese for a while tho 😉 🤭 We need to take this win against Disney (and like you said, any win, big or small) AND RUN WITH IT!!!

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Rory MacLeod's avatar

Brilliant JoJo…you’re on fire!

“The House Of Mouse”

🤣🤣🤣❤️

I’m creeped out just now by Pervy Donny, his overbite look and Charlie Kirks widow..

Way too comfortable together…

My WIFE of 34 YEARS doesn’t even cuddle me like that..

And I can still bring the fireworks too! 🤣🤣🫣

If you don’t laugh you cry…

That entire Kirk Memorial was like a sick perv fetish…

I’m VERY uneasy about it all..

The Trump Pageant 🤔🤮

Imagine the person you profess to love, was murdered ( it was awful and I have only sympathy for those poor children)

And within days, it’s show time.. white suit, fireworks, best shoes..

And to top it all, there is old pervy Uncle Donny Creosote…undressing you with his eyes..

A sick fest..

We fight back….

The mouse 🐁 hit a trap..

Donald was Ducked

People power WILL PREVAIL..

Stupid ALWAYS outdoes itself…

We keep going

PLEASE KEEP UP THE OUTSTANDING words and sense of humour

House of Mouse!!😂😂😂

Been laughing all day

Jimmy Kimmel is a turning point

🌟❤️🌟

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RRiveter's avatar

I can't quite figure her out: either a total idiot, believing that this administration will support her, her children, and her dead husband's organization, or a paid off zealot, agreeing with everything the king has to say and what he wants. It was embarrassing for her, I would think, when the king negated everything she said about forgiveness, and substituted hate for her thoughts. Time will tell where she comes from, and how influential she will be. She has 2 kids to raise; won't have time to fly around the country like her husband did, unless she wants nannies to raise the children. I have to admit I was shocked by her initial virulent words right after his death, then more shocked by the pics she had uploaded to, where else but Instagram, on her grieving over her husband's body, and she presenting her perfectly manicured hand next to his embalmed ones. It was pretty tasteless and shocking. Maybe I'm old school, but believe that deep grieving should not be posted on the fucking internet, or in a political rally, where grief was nowhere to be found.

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Samuel C Fraser's avatar

"It was the darkest of times, it was the dumbest of times."

Thank you. That line made my day. ☺️🌻🌹

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Dawna Stromsoe's avatar

Now let’s get Sinclair stock to crash and advertisers to bail. It’s time to use our voices, our actions, our money.

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Debby Griffiths's avatar

That's true. I forget they are on the market too!

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Mike Yochim's avatar

If anyone knows about the promiscuity of 12 year old girls, it would be him and Epstein. Let’s see him pronounce or spell promiscuity.

Oz is another so called doctor who should have his license taken away. When was the last time he actually practiced medicine?

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Debby Griffiths's avatar

Oz actually (many many years ago) was a brilliant heart surgeon. Saved the life of a friend's son. I am sickened every damn time I see this thing with his crap cures and hand always out for money. I understand he owns quite a bit of that drug they "think" may "cure" autism.

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RRiveter's avatar

God, ain't that the truth??? I wouldn't go to that guy for a hangnail, let alone a cardiac condition. And to respond to your supposition: No, he could NOT say or spell promiscuity. Probably doesn't even know what it is.

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RTN's avatar

I'm pretty sure he knows what it is … or was.

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