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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
A handful of giant conglomerates—Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount/Paramount Skydance—dominate large swaths of U.S. entertainment and broad...
A proposed news network led by Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, and Jimmy Kimmel would likely by consolidating three high-profile liberal-leaning personalities into a single platform, amplifying their ...
Two advertisers — — are reported to have pulled advertising from The View in direct response to controversy over co-host Joy Behar’s comments about a nurse monologue, according to multiple items in th...