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It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

I hope you have a good weekend coming up as we launched this Friday edition,

and I have such a towering pile of stuff.

Then I'm going to jump right in.

Story number one, Jimmy Kimball.

It just keeps getting bigger, and a lot of new information coming out.

Here's my take to begin with.

Jimmy Kimmel didn't read the electronic room.

Like a comedian has to read a room.

Any public speaker has to read a room.

And so now that Disney and ABC executives, you know, ultimately Bob Eiger, decided to pull the plug on his show for Wednesday and, you know, cancel it indefinitely, which means kind of like lose my number. It's hard to imagine him coming back. It sparked all kinds of debates, especially about the government's role since the FCC weighed in.

Now, so if Kimmel, in fact, is permanently banned.

Stephen Colbert finishing his last season,

that means two out of the three broadcasts late night shows,

would be toast.

Kimmel, I should say Trump, happy about that.

I'll come back to that.

When you look at what he actually said, it was kind of dumb and not accurate, but not wildly offensive.

And when the assassination first happened of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel came out and wished love to his family and, you know, was very respectful of what had happened.

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