Emily Jashinsky

But it's also not... I think the framing is off because the real story now is the standoff, as I mentioned before, between...

Liberal Hollywood, ABC News and the local stations, which are still not carrying him.

And so Nextar and Sinclair, which is 22 percent of his audience.

Nextar and Sinclair.

Exactly.

And so this story is still going to play out and it is no longer about free speech.

It's about business.

Yeah, I mean, this is a pivotal moment in television history, I think, as silly as that may sound, because what you're seeing is the sorting patterns that are going to come once whether or not somebody has like a broadcast license and the scarce airwaves of the 1960s, for example, when that model is blown up, what we're going to see is much more partisan or ideological sorting.

because people have more choice and people are going to go to places where they have more choice.

Still, though, even still, what Jimmy Kimmel could be doing is something a lot more like what Greg Gutfeld, who I think gets higher numbers than him, does, which is actually half.

Yes, he does.

It's not like he's doing a...

it's not like gutfeld's like throwing a million libs at his viewers all of the time but actually they do have conversations with people who like trump don't like trump and it's funny to see it like picked apart from both sides to audience members who actually like just want to laugh and yes it's very political but there's actually a bigger market than they realize uh for for humor that isn't just obsessively fixated on donald trump they would probably be doing better if they weren't obsessively fixated on donald trump and that's what i think

the Nexstar Sinclair protest is showing.

I think Nexstar's merger question is salient.

I'm more with Ted Cruz and the Brendan Carr stuff, but all of that is to say what we're seeing right now genuinely is these stations with more conservative audiences say, we do not need to air you.

It's not good for our business to air you right now.

So Disney, why don't you respond to us instead of all of the like 400 Hollywood people who signed their letter casting Kimmel as a victim of a free speech issue?

When in reality, you are really looking at a culture war business conversation.

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