Sinclair Broadcasting on Friday mentioned it’s returning “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” to its ABC stations, ending its preemption of the late-night present over remarks host Jimmy Kimmel had made on this system associated to the taking pictures dying of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. 

The present will air on its ABC associates tonight, Sinclair mentioned in an announcement. Sinclair owns 38 ABC stations throughout the U.S.

Disney’s ABC introduced Kimmel’s present again on Tuesday following a six-day suspension, however stations owned by Sinclair and Nexstar — a couple of quarter of the community’s associates — had continued to air different programming in that point slot as an alternative.

“Our goal all through this course of has been to make sure that programming stays correct and fascinating for the widest attainable viewers,” Sinclair mentioned in its assertion. “We take significantly our duty as native broadcasters to offer programming that serves the pursuits of our communities, whereas additionally honoring our obligations to air nationwide community programming.” 

Nexstar, which operates about 30 ABC associates, additionally preempted the present and has not but indicated if and when it’ll return “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” to the air. The corporate did not instantly return a request for remark.

On Wednesday, Nextar mentioned in an announcement to CBS Information that it “is constant to guage the standing of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Stay! on our ABC-affiliated native tv stations, and the present shall be preempted whereas we achieve this.”

Nextar added that it was engaged in “productive discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Firm, with a give attention to making certain this system displays and respects the various pursuits of the communities we serve.”

The present’s Tuesday episode, which aired on about three-quarters of ABC stations throughout the nation however was inaccessible to viewers in Sinclair and Nextar-controlled markets, nonetheless drew a broadcast viewers of about 4 occasions bigger than common. An estimated 6.26 million individuals tuned into the published, Disney mentioned in an announcement Wednesday, citing numbers compiled by Nielsen, an viewers measurement agency. The info doesn’t embrace viewers who streamed this system on-line. 

Kimmel’s present drew a nightly common of 1.42 million broadcast viewers throughout its 2024-25 season, a Disney spokesperson advised CBS Information.