ABC has pulled late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air “indefinitely” following backlash over comments host Jimmy Kimmel made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The move came after the FCC threatened action, and shortly after Nexstar Media Group, the nation’s largest owner of local television stations and parent company of KTLA, announced it would preempt the show “for the foreseeable future” across its ABC-affiliated markets.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be preempted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed to multiple media outlets on Wednesday.

Kirk, 31, was fatally shot by a sniper during a public forum at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. Authorities have charged 22-year-old Tyler Robinson in connection with the killing.

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