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KOMO buries the lead





The station comes out of a huge lead-in after Monday Night Football and finally mentions that it won't air the Kimmel  show's return on Tuesday night, even if ABC has reinstated it.  Thirty-five minutes in, it was finally buried and given a whole half-minute.  No statement from the GM, of course.  Fans or no fans of the show of Kimmel wanted to know the station's decision, but sorry folks, either way.   Once again ignoring their viewers.  Nothing new.   The show won't air, based on this report. I am sure the KOMO stalwart journalists are happy, right? 

By the way, anybody hear from the Radio-TV Digital News Association or any other organization yet about Trump saying the media should not publish negative stories about him or Hegseth's Pentagon clamp down on access at the Pentagon?    The silence is deafening.


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  1. IDC9September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM

    I don't know it for a fact, but I can't help but think that the journalists at KOMO would rather see Kimmel return to the airwaves tonight as he will on all but the Sinclair owned and Nexstar owned ABC affiliates. KOMO hasn't been the biggest fan of some of Sinclair's corporate decisions ("Bottom Line with Boris" comes to mind) regarding content over the years.

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