Sinclair and Nexstar, the two major station groups that preempted the talk show earlier this month, are allowing the show to return to their ABC-affiliated stations on Friday evening.
Sinclair is still a fascist-loving company and will never make a dollar of ad revenue off of me ever again. Sucks for me when a football game I want to see is on ABC (my local affiliate is Sinclair-owned), but otherwise anything worth seeing on ABC is available on YouTube. I’ve never really watched Kimmel, but now I watch and like his monologues on YouTube every day.
Or dvr the programming, use software to automatically cut out the ads, then watch it a bit after it airs. It’s not like watching it live impacts the outcome…
This really isn’t true anymore with smart TVs. They take samplings of everything you’re watching all the time and send it back to the mothership. And I guarantee you that Sinclair and other stations buy that information from, say Samsung for example.
Sinclair is still a fascist-loving company and will never make a dollar of ad revenue off of me ever again. Sucks for me when a football game I want to see is on ABC (my local affiliate is Sinclair-owned), but otherwise anything worth seeing on ABC is available on YouTube. I’ve never really watched Kimmel, but now I watch and like his monologues on YouTube every day.
Unless you’re a Neilsen household (or buying the advertised products), you watching OTA programming doesn’t really benefit Sinclair.
I’d say give yourself grace and watch what you want.
Or dvr the programming, use software to automatically cut out the ads, then watch it a bit after it airs. It’s not like watching it live impacts the outcome…
This really isn’t true anymore with smart TVs. They take samplings of everything you’re watching all the time and send it back to the mothership. And I guarantee you that Sinclair and other stations buy that information from, say Samsung for example.