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Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube

Host cites FCC pressure, while ABC parent Disney disputes regulator's actions

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Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube

What this story says

  • Jimmy Kimmel stated his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will be posted on YouTube instead of airing on ABC.
  • Kimmel attributed the decision to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which he said has threatened ABC and its affiliates.
  • The Talarico campaign raised $2.5 million in the 24 hours after a similar interview with Stephen Colbert was barred from airing.
  • ABC's parent company, Disney, is contesting the FCC's early renewal process for eight ABC-owned stations, alleging retaliation.

Who covered it

Left 40%(81)Centre 39%(60)Right 21%(40)

Percentages are shares of the 181 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 56 of the 237 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

76/100

Craft

95/100

Hype

30/100

237 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

Only 40 of the 181 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Jimmy Kimmel announced that an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico would not be broadcast on ABC. Instead, the conversation will be released on YouTube. Kimmel stated that the decision was made due to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and threats to ABC and its local stations.

This move follows a similar situation in February when Stephen Colbert was prevented from airing an interview with Talarico. According to Variety, the Talarico campaign raised $2.5 million in the 24 hours after Colbert announced he could not air the interview, and the YouTube clip subsequently received 9.5 million views. Kimmel noted that political candidates have appeared on late-night shows for years, including his own interview with Donald Trump in 2015 while Trump was campaigning.

The situation is occurring while ABC's parent company, Disney, is engaged in a dispute with the FCC. In April, the FCC ordered an early renewal process for eight ABC-owned television stations. Disney has contested this, filing a lawsuit that alleges the FCC's actions constitute retaliation and infringe on its First Amendment rights. The FCC disputes these claims, stating the review is a legitimate regulatory process.

Disagreement on FCC's specific action

IBTimes reported that there is no indication the FCC issued a specific order prohibiting ABC from airing the Kimmel-Talarico interview, and that the decision to move it online should not be described as a direct FCC order. Variety stated that Kimmel explained the decision came out of concerns that a politically motivated FCC has continually threatened ABC station licenses.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated reports mention the FCC's claim that the review of ABC stations is a legitimate regulatory process involving issues including alleged unlawful discrimination and whether stations are meeting their public-interest obligations. The reports also do not include the FCC's request to a federal judge to dismiss Disney's lawsuit.

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Coverage settled. We checked this 31 times and stopped on 15 Sept 2026, 19:01. The figures above are what it finished at.

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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

81 rated outlets

  • Left-rated reports focused on Jimmy Kimmel's assertion that the FCC, under the Trump administration, has threatened ABC and its affiliates, leading to the decision to move the Talarico interview to YouTube. These reports highlighted Kimmel's view that this represents a change in the environment for political programming on broadcast television. The financial success of the Talarico campaign following the Stephen Colbert interview's removal was also noted by Variety and Deadline. IBTimes and Rolling Stone also mentioned the FCC's formal order for an early renewal process for eight ABC-owned stations in April, which Disney is contesting.

Centre

60 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the centre coverage of this story. The centre-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Right

40 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the right coverage of this story. The right-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube?
Of the 181 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 40% are rated left, 39% are rated centre, 21% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 237. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 181 rated outlets on this story, 40% are rated left, 39% are rated centre, 21% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube biased?
Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube is one event reported by 237 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Jimmy Kimmel moves interview with James Talarico to YouTube?
237 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why will Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico not air on ABC?
Jimmy Kimmel stated that the interview will be posted on YouTube instead of airing on ABC due to pressure and threats from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Kimmel suggested that the FCC's scrutiny has changed the environment for political programming on traditional television.
What is the broader dispute between ABC and the FCC?
ABC's parent company, Disney, is contesting the FCC's decision to order an early renewal process for eight ABC-owned television stations. Disney has sued the FCC, alleging the regulator's actions are retaliatory and violate its First Amendment rights, while the FCC disputes these claims.
How did a previous interview with James Talarico affect his campaign?
In February, Stephen Colbert was barred from airing an interview with James Talarico due to FCC pressure. The Talarico campaign reported raising $2.5 million in the 24 hours after Colbert announced the interview would not air, and the YouTube clip received 9.5 million views.

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