How many streaming subscribers lost Disney after suspending Kimmel?

Disney lost 1.7 million paid streaming subscribers who canceled the service in the aftermath of ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel of the Ondes, according to journalist Marisa Kabas. Kimmel’s show, Jimmy Kimmel live, Was suspended for a week after President Donald Trump’s FCC put pressure on local television channels to abandon the host at the end of the evening, although he has since been returned to the air.

“Disney saw more than 1.7 million paid streaming cancellations during the period 9 / 17-9 / 23, a Disney source confirms me. The total includes Disney +, Hulu and ESPN,” wrote Kabas on Monday Bluesky.

Kabas reports that 1.7 million was 436% above a loss of subscribers which is typical for the same period, although Disney did not immediately answer Gizmodo’s questions on the report. Kabas broke a story last week in hand basketball on a planned price increase for Disney +. Disney announced that Kimmel was coming back shortly before the official announcement of the price increase.

The calls to cancel the streaming services belonging to Disney have become viral on several social media platforms in order to express dissatisfaction with Disney’s decision. And it is not clear how many subscribers can plan to come back since Kimmel is back on the antenna.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show became a flash point for cultural wars after the murder of Maga Charlie Kirk’s influencer on September 10, when he was shot dead while he was expressed on a Utah university campus. Kimmel made a comment that some interpreted as the host insisting that the shooter was a supporter of Trump, even if Kimmel said that it was not what he wanted.

But this comment sent a wave of indignation online, and the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, took the opportunity on the Podcast of Benny Johnson to call Kimmel’s comment “some of the most sick drivers”. Carr then threats to gangster against the television channels that seem Kimmel.

“Frankly, when you see things like this, I mean, we can do it the simplest way or that these companies can find ways to change driving … To act, frankly, on Kimmel where there will be additional work for the FCC to come,” said Carr.

Carr’s comments were obviously made of bad faith, but they were very predictable. President Trump celebrated Stephen Colbert’s cancellation to CBS during the summer and explicitly declared that Kimmel would be “the next one” with Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers in NBC. Trump obtained actors who make fun of him, a typical reaction among the autocrats historically. And his FCC clearly feels embarrassing to put pressure on media societies to get rid of any content that does not fully support the president.

Trump even said on Air Force One recently that any television network that criticizes him should lose his license, wrongly insisting: “They are not allowed to do so.” People can go on television to criticize politicians everything they like, which is considered a protected discourse under the first amendment to the American Constitution.

Kimmel’s show returned to the air last week and, despite a few days with Sinclair and Nexstar by pre -empty the show on several markets, they finally dropped their boycott. ABC local affiliates in the United States are all issued Jimmy Kimmel live Now, although it seems clear that Trump and his government do not give up so easily.

Any dissent on television is too dissident for Trump. And the famous thin skin president will continue to erode freedoms in the United States as long as he stays in power. The only question is what lever he tries to pull then so that guys like Kimmel have airs.