Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

[Umbran]

And I think that snap judgement was made in response to the affiliates' actions rather than anything else.

I have not heard of any actions by the affiliates before he was preempted.

 

[Umbran]

And I think that snap judgement was made in response to the affiliates' actions rather than anything else.

I have not heard of any actions by the affiliates before he was preempted.

 

[jian]

I think it all started with Nexstar saying they wouldn't carry ABC while Kimmel was on the air, probably because Nexstar has a merger coming up. Not unlike the CBS/Paramount thing. They're still not showing Kimmel since his return. Since Nexstar is the biggest TV station owner in the US, I guess that's a big deal for Disney/ABC, hence their snap decision.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/kimmel-abc-nexstar-sinclair-fcc.html

 

[Desdichado]

Everything that I have through either my cable internet provider or my cell provider, which is actually most of them, albeit with ads in many cases. I don't pay a separate bill for any of them. Amazon Prime is the only one that we pay for explicitly, and that's actually mostly because we want the free shipping more than the streaming service.

We haven't even bothered setting them all up yet on our Apple TV, but I'm pretty sure we've got Netflix, Disney+, Hulu(+?), HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and I've got Tubi and a few other specific apps installed (like my wife's Hallmark+, etc.) I hardly watch anything, though—I'm still more of a physical media person, and I'm not a fan of much that's new. That said, streaming older TV shows like Supernatural, Seinfeld or The X-Files is still better than buying blu-rays or DVDs.

 

[chuckdee]

I have not heard of any actions by the affiliates before he was preempted.

The affiliates said they would preempt the show before ABC made the announcement. It seemed to be more the same affiliates that didn't carry his return last night that said they wouldn't carry that was announced first.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-supreme-court-first-amendment-lawsuit-00570697

After Carr’s threat, Nexstar, an owner of many ABC affiliate stations, said that it wouldn’t run Kimmel’s program “for the foreseeable future” because of his Kirk comments. (Notably, Nexstar is planning to acquire a rival company, Tegna, in a $6.2 billion deal that will require FCC approval.)

Mere hours later, ABC had removed Kimmel from the air.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, Sinclair Broadcasting has been waiting for this sort of moment for a very long time. It's worth anyone interested in this aspect of things reading up on them (there's a lot out there, from major outlets you know), but I think it'll be hard to talk about them more without violating ENWorld politics rules.