Posted 14 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret DownJimmy Kimmel Has Been Booted From ABC After This Comment About Charlie Kirk's DeathThe move comes after the FCC chair threatened to "take action" against individual broadcasters airing the program.by Li ZhouHuffPost ContributorFacebookPinterestLinkHot Topic🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics ABC is yanking Jimmy Kimmel's late night show off the air indefinitely in the wake of comments he made about Charlie Kirk's killing, according to a network spokesperson. Araya Doheny / Getty Images "Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely," the spokesperson told HuffPost in a statement. Randy Holmes / Getty Images On Monday, Kimmel suggested that the suspected shooter in Kirk's assassination could have adhered to right-wing views, a statement that's drawn the ire of conservatives and threats of penalties from FCC Chair Brendan Carr. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them," Kimmel said. "In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving." ABC / Via youtube.com BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicLet's chat about all things PoliticsSee our Politics Discussions Earlier on Wednesday, Carr suggested that ABC and Disney take action, and added that the FCC could penalize individual broadcasters over airing Kimmel's program. Eric Broder Van Dyke / Getty Images This is a developing story that originally appeared on HuffPost.