Did This Planned Broadcasting Merger Play a Part in Kimmel's Firing?

[Wiz Imp]

2. NO

only somewhere between 23 & 33 ABC affiliates are owned by Nexstar (Every source I look at has a different numbers but they're all between those 2 numbers. There was no reason for ABC to care about that merger because around 90% of their stations were completely unaffected by it.

It did, however, probably play a part in Nexstar's decision to quickly pull Kimmel's show from their ABC stations very soon after the FCC threatened them.

ABC made the decision to suspend Kimmel for reasons completely unrelated to the Nexstar merger.