‘Jimmy Kimmel Dwell’ Returns to Sinclair ABC Affiliate Stations in Reversal

The Jimmy Kimmel prolonged blackout is seeing extra daylight … beginning tonight, ‘Dwell!’ is storming again onto all of Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s 38 ABC affiliate stations, the corporate declared Friday.

Sinclair mentioned the previous week had introduced a flood of suggestions — from viewers, advertisers, and group leaders — all pushing them to determine conserving Kimmel on-air is vital to fostering respectful dialogue throughout a spectrum of differing voices.

Earlier this week, ABC introduced Kimmel would return to the airwaves Tuesday night time … however Sinclair and Nexstar Media Group — two media firms that personal a big quantity of native affiliate stations — mentioned they have been each resisting bringing Jimmy again … leaving about 20% of the nation with out his present whereas talks with Disney dragged on.

As of mid-day Friday, Nexstar remains to be preempting Kimmel.

Sinclair additionally famous the troubling capturing at a Sacramento ABC affiliate final week within the assertion. The information of Jimmy’s return drops simply 3 days after Kimmel’s present returned to Disney’s ABC community, ending a virtually week-long suspension over his controversial feedback about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer and President Trump … following a veiled menace from the chairman of the FCC.