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Jimmy Kimmel told Wednesday night’s “Live” audience that his Thursday interview with James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee from Texas, would not air on television, but would instead be posted on YouTube.The “unusual circumstances” of the interview, Kimmel said, were prompted by the Federal Communications Commission’s actions under President Trump, which Kimmel said had “threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations, based on simple, traditional, editorial decisions — guest bookings it would seem they don’t like.”
Under guidance released in January, the F.C.C. warned that entertainment-oriented talk shows carried on local TV stations were required to offer equal airtime to candidates running for the same office.
“You know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, etc. etc.,” Jimmy Kimmel said.
“I interviewed Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2015, and at that time, when he was the one sitting next to me, he seemed to have no problem with the idea of talk show hosts interviewing candidates. In fact, he was very eager to come back for another interview, which he did just before he became the nominee in 2016. But for some reason, and I can’t seem to figure out what that reason is, something has changed.” — JIMMY KIMMELA similar scenario played out in February, when Stephen Colbert said he had been told by CBS’s lawyers not to have Talarico on the broadcast of “The Late Show.” The show ran the appearance on its YouTube channel.
“And thank goodness we have that, because in the America we live in right now, that is the best that we can do, until November, of course.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
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