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Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:50 PM Tuesday

Disney+ lost nearly 3 million subscribers following Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Viewers responded in droves to ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live in September, and not positively.

The politically motivated preemption of the late-night program following host Jimmy Kimmel's brief remarks regarding the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk drove a massive wave of Disney+ subscription cancellations, a new report from the research firm Antenna shows, per The New York Times.

Roughly three million Americans canceled their Disney+ subscriptions in September, which represents a near tripling of the previous three-month average of 1.2 million. Slicing the data another way shows a doubling of the subscription cancellation rate, jumping from 4 percent in July and August to 8 percent in September for Disney+, and 5 percent in July and August to 10 percent in September for Hulu.

The momentary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live by ABC, a Disney-owned network, is likely one of the major factors behind the subscriber drop-off.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/disney-lost-nearly-3-million-034002509.html

Love all the comments after the article from butthurt MAGA morons who insist Kimmel wasn't the reason for the cancellations.

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