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As of 2025 the U.S. media landscape is dominated by a handful of very large conglomerates — commonly identified as Comcast (NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramoun...
Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, has been at the center of multiple controversies since his death: viral footage of her interactions at Turning Point USA events has triggered accusations of staged e...
Erika (often spelled Erika/Erica inconsistently in some reports) Kirk is the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and has become a public figure as Turning Point USA’s new leader and a vocal pa...
Recent empirical work does not support a single precise percentage for how many local news outlets are owned by clearly conservative- or liberal-leaning corporations, but the best recent estimates sho...
Yes — in the September 2025 controversy over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, some local broadcasters preempted his show and a handful of advertisers an...
Nexstar’s NewsNation has grown from a struggling start to a for specific events, yet its parent company’s reach and past controversies fuel debate about bias and editorial priorities. Recent coverage ...
There is no single authoritative count in the provided reporting that classifies every “major” U.S. media conglomerate as conservative or liberal in 2025; available sources describe trends, prominent ...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! remains strongest with younger adult viewers: Nielsen and industry reporting show the show “finished first among adults 18–49” in the second quarter and has historically been strong...
The materials provided do not contain a single, authoritative national percentage for how many U.S. local news stations are owned by *conservative-leaning* companies as of 2025; available pieces repea...
The evidence in the provided source set shows as the largest and most prominent conservative-leaning owners or operators of local television stations in the United States as of late 2025, with Sinclai...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! generated roughly $70 million in ad revenue year-to-date for ABC and ran ads for more than 200 brands, per iSpot reporting cited in Business Insider and Fox Business . That haul sit...
Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 loosened cross‑ownership and ownership‑cap rules, U.S. media ownership has moved sharply toward a handful of very large conglomerates: by some counts a small g...
Available reporting shows advertisers and sponsor groups drew scrutiny during the September 2025 controversy over ABC’s temporary pull of Jimmy Kimmel Live! after Kimmel’s monologue about the killing ...
A verified, joint news network fronted by Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Kimmel is not supported by the available reporting; fact-checking found the specific "Truth News" collaboration claim...
There is no definitive, quantitative nationwide breakdown of local news ownership by political leaning in the United States in the materials provided; the sources supplied document trends—not a census...
Since 2009, concentration of media ownership and turnover in editorial leadership have shaped by amplifying crisis and crime frames, narrowing sources, and creating regional homogeneity that both pres...
Charlie Kirk has been the subject of repeated public backlash for inflammatory remarks, with major media reporting criticism and calls for accountability but no clear record in these sources of formal...
Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings trajectory over the past several years reflects a mix of structural industry shifts and show-specific incidents: all appear in the record as contributors to viewership volatilit...
The claim asks how Senator John Kennedy criticized televangelist Joel Osteen’s handling of Hurricane Harvey relief, but the documents provided for analysis contain that Kennedy made such criticism. Th...
political entanglements are a growing, but not exclusive, factor shaping studio acquisition choices for nonfiction projects: owners’ partisan ties and regulatory exposure can make buyers wary of contr...