The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 1:04.7 | From the Vox Media Podcast Network. |
| 1:11.5 | This is Chandals with Peter Kafka. |
| 1:13.4 | That is me. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm also the chief correspondent at Business Insider. |
| 1:17.9 | Obviously, you know what we're talking about today. |
| 1:20.3 | We're talking about the president of the United States and his regulators taking aim at Disney slash ABC and Jimmy Kimmel. You also know that Kimmel came back on the air |
| 1:30.8 | Tuesday night. You have probably seen a clip or two about it at this point. I've also written about |
| 1:35.7 | this story three times in the last week, so you're welcome to review those posts. The most recent one |
| 1:41.4 | tries again to spell out why this is not the same as, say, Tucker |
| 1:45.6 | Carlson losing his job at Fox. So what I wanted to do today is to talk to someone who can put |
| 1:50.9 | all of this in context, not just the politics, but the mechanics and economics of late-night TV. |
| 1:57.6 | And what late-night TV does and doesn't mean in a world where everyone watches clips |
| 2:02.4 | instead of shows. So I reached out to James Panoazik. He is the TV critic at the New York Times. |
| 2:08.9 | James is great to talk to about TV, obviously, but he's also become a Trump expert in the last |
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