It had everything to do with free speech.
Kimmel has enormous advertising revenue. ABC did not make him a rich man because he was not delivering.
You guys break out the same tired memes every time a lefty is attacked. It is the same as Trump with his attacks. Every reporter is a 3rd rater working for a failing paper or news organization. Trump is lying when he does that, and so are you guys, when you adopt his patterned responses.
Jimmy has been on the night show for 23 years. Why they kept him around while he was losing tons of money is a mystery. Or perhaps, it is a lie.
The short answer: You're a radicalized drone, incapable of facing facts or processing them like a mentally stable person would.
A bit more detailed answer: Just look at Kimmel's ratings over the last decade. Are you denying they've plummeted every single year? Crashing to levels so humiliating that anyone with a shred of humility would've walked away years ago. Jimmy should think:
"Clearly, people despise me and my show except for a dwindling cult of hardcore drones, fewer than the suckers tuning into 90 Day Fiancé on cable. Time to pivot to something else."
Affiliate ad rates hinge on viewer counts (obvious to anyone not brain dead), so his program was already hemorrhaging value before he torched the last of his audience with that tasteless, brazen lie. It pushed an already toxic mess over the edge even for the few who'd stuck around, exhausted from justifying the show's pointless existence.
Your inability to grasp why a corporation would prop up a money pit doesn't alter reality it just spotlights how blind you are to the effects of TDS and WOKE insanity that infects Disney the same way it does you. Also, in case you're not aware, Disney dabbles in other things, a million flushed here or there won't bankrupt them. But renewing this trainwreck through endless decline has been flat out reckless and goes against their obligations to shareholders, but not enough to go against the WOKE mob, I guess. Disney's neck deep in WOKE insanity and collectively suffers from TDS just as you do. Grasp that, and these "logic defying" moves snap into focus. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that executives are acting out of fear. They don't want their names to be the next ones engraved into the next bullet, they have good reason to be, don't they?
The First Amendment doesn't shield employees on the job rants. You and your drone swarm whine like he's been muzzled, when market backlash forced Disney to bench him, especially after previewing the monologue he planned on reading the night after his insulting lie. The exact reverse of "free speech suppression" played out: His toxic spiel blasted to millions hell, billions worldwide thanks to the backlash bonfire.
If Trump's team were truly assaulting speech, they're bumbling idiots at it. A real crackdown? FCC ripping the show off the airwaves, then threatening the full weight of the federal government on any network airing the clip or even whispering about it. That's speech suppression. There are plenty of ways to gut free speech, but the boss yanking his star employee's mic mid shift? That's just employment 101, then Disney foolishly decided to follow libtard lunacy 101.
Predictably, radicalized drones scavenging for a martyr to match your delusional world view, and this limp Kimmel saga is the best you can do. Painting him as victim turned speech saint right after a genuine free speech warrior got slaughtered by a brainwashed leftist thug is peak Democrat derangement. The world anticipates your idiocy; we all know you'll knee jerk the opposite of sanity every time.
Charlie Kirk waded into enemy territory, mic'd up hecklers and always put them first in line, handed them his stage, his crowd, unlimited airtime to shred him, something Kimmel or any leftist would dare do. He paid with his life knowing that the possibility was all too real because of the insane rhetoric from the left. Instead of letting them win he bravely took the risk because he knew that cowering was equal to letting evil win. You moron's would say, look what happened, evil won. No, it's becoming very clear the Devil overplayed his hand and Charlie's death was anything but a win for the Devil.
Kimmel? Earned a cushy four night paid "sabbatical" for peddling deliberate smears about the radical's politics, then the press parrots the fiction that Trump orchestrated this nobody's timeout. They crowned irrelevant Jimmy the left's stand in martyr for "taking the Trump bullet" and then he was resurrected four days later stronger than ever. It's a fairy tale for the radicalized cultists, but to the rest of us, it's just another spike driven into the Democrat corpse.