Dear John,
We did it. Hundreds of you joined our Disney boycott, and tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air. The response was so overwhelming that Disney+’s subscription cancellation page was temporarily unavailable yesterday.
But it’s not time to resubscribe to Disney+, ESPN, or Hulu just yet.
Only 2/3rds of America will get to watch Kimmel tonight. Those of us who live in a media market where the local ABC station is owned by conglomerates Nexstar or Sinclair will still get a censored broadcast.
Nexstar and Sinclair are aspirational media monopolies that buy as many local TV stations as the FCC will allow. Now, they’re sucking up to Trump for the right to gobble up even more. But it’s 2025, who needs TV stations anymore?
No matter what media market we’re in, as long as every ABC station isn’t showing Kimmel, we’ll be watching the highlights the next morning on YouTube. We may even watch them twice, three times, or as many times as it takes for Sinclair and Nexstar to understand that they need us a lot more than we need them.
And if Disney wants our business back, they should let us know by withholding the NFL’s weekly Monday Night Football game from any station that’s anti-free speech. We’re sure that would clear things up real fast.
-The Union