Exit Disney: Disney+, HULU, ESPN+, FuboTV... And CALL. See list of contacts added on edit.

[pat_k]

Last edited Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:20 PM - Edit history (8)

Pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show is intolerable.

Wikipedia has a list of other Disney assets.

Includes Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Searchlight, a 50% equity holding in A&E Global Media (with Hearst Corp), FX, National Geographic and Onyx Collective.

Boycotting this spider is a challenge, but I think if you have a subscription to Disney+, HULU, and/or ESPN+, cancelling right now would send a message (if enough others do the same -- and I suspect there will be a whole lot of people doing the same).

ON EDIT: And, their phone lines should be flooded!!! Below is a list of contacts for ABC entertainment, one of which is Viewer Feedback, 818-460-7477. The contact list includes named individuals with email addresses too. I'm looking up who they are, but I'm pretty sure some of these folks are people who should be hearing from us.

https://www.detpress.com/abc/contacts/
9/18 Above page has been taken down. Here is the archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250918012555/https://www.detpress.com/abc/contacts/

ON EDIT 8:20 PM PDT:

Someone on that list you might want to email: Chelsie Tanamachi, Director, Unscripted Publicity, which includes Kimmel's show. She might want to hear how outraged you are about pulling the show. If they were threatened by the FCC, they should have filed an immediate injunction against the abuse of power. And if they don't have a legal department who has a motion ready to go in anticipation of such threats, they are idiots. And being idiots is certainly bad publicity.
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ON EDIT 8:25 PDT:
Another press contact of the Kimmel show who should get a sense of the public's reaction:
Rachel Villegas
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[Skittles]

1. good luck with that

so many people just don't give a fuck about democracy as long as they can watch their shit shows and post on FB

[pat_k]

4. You may be right...

...but I've cancelled on principle, and hope more others do the same. I don't know if anyone will listen, but I'll be lobbying online for others to do the same and will BOLO for more organized efforts.

Kimmel averaged around 1.6 to 1.8 million total viewers in the broadcast season ending May 2025 and the first half of 2025. Presumably there are a lot more who see his bits in clips online.

Disney+ reported 124.6 subscibers in Q1 2025. They stopped reporting subscriber numbers. Perhaps in anticipation of boycotts for being assholes. Kimmel's viewers may be a drop in the bucket to them, but I think there are more people out there who don't watch Kimmel who will see this as an Un-American and intolerable act of censorship to appease an out of control regime.

All we can do is our own "bits of good." My bit of good today was cancelling Disney+.

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." Desmond Tutu

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. maga boycotted Disney for years over "woke" and DEI with little impact.

I'm not saying don't boycott, but I think it might require more severe action of some kind but I don't know what.

[pat_k]

11. Understood. As I replied to Skittles, perhaps its useless to lobby people cancel (+Email/Call, see OP edits)

Two quotes help move me to act, even if it may be fruitless:

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no result"
-Mahatma Gandi

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world"
-Desmond Tutu

Taking these small actions -- cancelling Disney+ (I don't subscribe to HULU or ESPN+), sending email to the Kimmel show press contacts (see notes added to OP), and setting aside time to call the viewer feedback number tomorrow, are the "bits of good" I can do.

Encouraging others to do the same here, on sez.us, and on my facebook page (very few followers, but they are likely to act too), is another bit of good.

I will never know the fruit of the action. But who knows? Perhaps something one of the people who calls or sends an email says "clicks" and gets "passed up the line" Who knows? All I do know is that citing FCC threats as the reason is utter bullshit (as noted in the ON EDIT bits of the OP).

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. We often do things that are positive w little known reward, bc it is the right thing to do.

One person's boycott is not going to change anything, like one person's vote won't. But together, people have much bigger effects.

Whether or not a boycott succeeds, it can help one sleep better at night and that might alone make it worthwhile.

We do what we can as we are able and moved. Cheers.

[msongs]

2. already don't use any of those. should I sign up and then quit in protest...hmmm

[pat_k]

5. I've actually been meaning to cancel Disney+ for awhile. I'm sort of happy I....

...procrastinated, because this is a last straw and I'm delighted to tie my cancellation to his intolerable event.

[pat_k]

6. Better to make a call.

A list of ABC entertainment contacts at the link below -- one of which is viewer feedback (818-460-7477)

https://www.detpress.com/abc/contacts/

I'm adding to the OP now.

[lostincalifornia]

3. I get HULU for included with my cell phone provider, but I hardly watch that crap on Hulu anyway, so it is pretty

easy to just uncheck the HULU box. I am tired of their right wing "vote No on 50" ads anyway that they seem to be playing all the time.

[pat_k]

7. And if you are able, call the viewer feedback number: 818-460-7477

See the list of contacts added to the OP on edit. There are email addresses too.

[Johonny]

8. Selling my Disney stock first thing in the morning

This is poison for their brand.

[pat_k]

9. In case you missed the edit, I added link to a list of contacts at ABC entertainment to the OP.

Perhaps let them know you sold your stock and are encouraging others to do the same...

There's a "viewer feedback" number and emails for various people whose roles I'm currently looking up.

[uponit7771]

12. We need to read more books anyway

[pat_k]

18. Hear! Hear!

[question everything]

13. Aren't the stations at the mercy of the FCC who threatened to revoke their licenses?

I am not familiar with how this business works.

A blip from a WSJ report

While no return date has been set, Disney is monitoring the situation and sees a path to the show potentially returning in the next several days, according to a person familiar with the situation.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-to-pull-jimmy-kimmels-show-after-kirk-remarks-47b4b400?mod=hp_lead_pos2

[pat_k]

20. I'm not a lawyer, but it sure seems to me that such abusive threats demand a motion to enjoin the FCC from

acting on those threats. And if the legal departments of media companies don't have draft motions on hand in anticipation of such threats from a regime that has made its agenda crystal clear, they are idiots who intend to capitulate to any demand.

To me, "they bulled us into this" is a cowardly position of a company that probably makes terrible, costly decisions in other areas, and is therefore a company that investors should steer clear of and the public should condemn.

[moonshinegnomie]

14. kimmel should sue carr for 15 billion

take a page out of trumps playbook

[pat_k]

22. Absolutely!

[halobeam]

15. Is it more effective to boycott their advertisers?

Real question. I really don't mind cancelling, whatever it takes. I agree with another poster who thought calling is imperative.

Every action counts, like every vote does. This all needs to stop.

[pat_k]

17. Perhaps, if there were advertisers who was are particularly associated with the ad-supported Disney+ tier...

.. who weren't also advertising on platforms that haven't capitulated so egregiously. In a couple quick searches, no particularly corporation stood out to me.

Tragically, at the rate corporate America is falling into line with 47 regime's Un-American, immoral, and intolerable agenda, it's less a question of who to boycott as it is deciding who to support -- identifying who is standing up.

In my own life, I spend way to much money buying things at Puget Sound Coop to support locally-owned business that generally pass muster as being "good citizens" in the current environment, but it is difficult on a dog walkers earnings these days (I'm a lot poorer, but happier, since I left IT consulting in 2021). I don't think most people have the bandwidth or the wherewithal to make such distinctions. With the sort of spider web reach of so many companies, it feels too overwhelming to target somebody like procter & gamble. As much as I try to avoid Amazon, sometimes I give in. Even worst, companies that formerly acted in ways that would earn them points as good corporate citizens -- environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices that define corporate citizenship -- are going silent on that to avoid persecution by the regime.

Anyway, way too rambling an answer. I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps targeting advertisers would be effective, but I would need an entity I trust to identify targets, make a case for why they should be targets, and promote the efforts.

[halobeam]

23. Thanks for your insight into this. At this point, I would

give up amenities that I've grown accustomed to, if it made a difference. I agree- it's crucial to investigate who to stop doing business with, let alone tricky. I wouldn't want to be causing damage to anyone who is standing up. You make some great points.

Maybe I'll spend my energy, and resources, to find more of who to support rather than who to boycott. (Though if there was an organized boycott I'd look into it thoroughly before I hopped on board). I do think it can drive a point home, when an entity actually feels the effects of a financial hit... being their only bottom line.

Im not rolling in the dough either in life, but I can make wiser choices who I do any business with.

I enjoyed your ramble! Thanks for your time

[RandomNumbers]

25. Maybe listen to/watch NPR / PBS and switch to their sponsors?

At least switch from companies you know have supported Disney, ABC, etc. when there is an alternative that supports public broadcasting.

[pat_k]

26. Absolutely! I do make good use of the PBS Passport subscription I get for donating.

I was just giving the minimum to get the subscription but tripled that when funding was cut.

What gets a little confusing is subscribing to Masterpiece, which has some shows that aren't available through Passport. Unfortunately, you can only subscribe to Masterpiece as an Amazon Prime Video Channel, so I don't, unsure of what sort of "split" Amazon gets.

[summer_in_TX]

16. Nexstar Media Group refused to carry Kimmel's show anymore first.

They're in a $6.2 billion merger deal with Tegna which needs final approval from the government. But they've always been terrible.

Then the FCC's Brendan Carr came out with his remarks about how "sick" Kimmel's comments were and threatened ABC's broadcast license.

Then ABC suspended Kimmel's show indefinitely.

In all the boycott talk, don't forget about Nexstar: www.nexstar.tv/contact/ or email them at [e-mail].

[Violet_Crumble]

19. I cancelled my Disney+ subscription this morning...

Apart from 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' it was pretty slim pickings for quality shows, so that made pulling the plug easier. I did let them know in the exit thingy that I don't like paying companies that suck up to wannabe dictators and their minions.

I know it won't cause Disney any lost sleep, but cancelling it works for me, both morally and financially.

[pat_k]

21. Cheers!

As I said in another reply, we can only do what we believe is right. Here are a couple quotes that help me take actions -- however seemingly small -- in a world seemingly gone mad:

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no result"
-Mahatma Gandi

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world"
-Desmond Tutu

Taking these small actions -- cancelling Disney+ (I don't subscribe to HULU or ESPN+), sending email to the Kimmel show press contacts (see notes added to OP), and setting aside time to call the viewer feedback number tomorrow, are the "bits of good" I can do.

Encouraging others to do the same here, on sez.us, and on my facebook page (very few followers, but they are likely to act too), is another bit of good.

I will never know the fruit of the action. But who knows? Perhaps something one of the people who calls or sends an email says "clicks" and gets "passed up the line" Who knows? All I do know is that citing FCC threats as the reason is utter bullshit (as noted in the ON EDIT bits of the OP).