Joy Behar and her fellow hosts on The View just learned their network might be in serious trouble.
A major Wall Street firm just delivered a recommendation that could change everything at ABC.
And Joy Behar just got handed the worst news of her career after one Wall Street decision that has Disney executives in full panic mode.
Investment firm delivers devastating blow to ABC’s future
Investment firm Needham sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry this week with a brutal assessment of ABC’s prospects under Disney ownership.
The firm’s recommendation came after recent controversies exposed just how expensive and risky it’s become for Disney to maintain broadcast operations.
But what Needham told Disney to do with ABC will leave Joy Behar and The View scrambling for their professional lives.
"The recent ‘FCC intervention has made owning broadcasting licenses too expensive and too volatile for DIS shareholders, in our view,’" Needham wrote in a client note that had Disney executives in emergency meetings.¹
The investment firm didn’t mince words about what Disney should do next – and their solution represents an existential threat to everything Joy Behar has built over decades of daytime television.
Rather than trying to fix ABC’s problems, Needham recommended Disney take the nuclear option and shut down the network’s broadcast operations completely.
The Jimmy Kimmel disaster created a regulatory nightmare
The crisis started when Kimmel made his disgusting comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, sparking outrage from conservatives across the country.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to investigate Kimmel’s commentary, which sent Disney’s legal team into panic mode about potential regulatory consequences.
Disney faced the nightmare scenario of consumer backlash from both sides – conservatives furious about Kimmel’s remarks and liberals angry when the network briefly suspended him.
Disney also faced consumer backlash over Kimmel’s suspension, with some subscribers responding by canceling their Disney+ streaming service.²
The company found itself trapped between angry regulators, furious consumers, and plummeting ratings that made ABC look like a financial black hole.
Joy Behar and her co-hosts watched in horror as their network became the poster child for everything wrong with woke corporate media.
ABC’s ratings collapse tells the real story
The numbers don’t lie about ABC’s death spiral under Disney’s woke management.
ABC averaged only 2.4 million viewers in prime time, across both its broadcast and cable channels, during the summer of 2025, according to Nielsen data.³
You want to know what 2.4 million viewers really means? That’s fewer people than live in Chicago.
For a major broadcast network that once dominated American television, those numbers tell you everything about what happens when you declare war on half your audience.
The View exemplifies the problem perfectly – Behar and her co-hosts transformed what was once harmless daytime television into a daily lecture circuit for wealthy coastal elites.
Morning after morning, they’ve used their platform to attack anyone who doesn’t share their political worldview while claiming to speak for "ordinary American women."
But here’s the thing about ordinary American women – they stopped watching years ago.
Look, here’s what Wall Street really thinks about Disney’s strategy
The Needham recommendation to completely shut down ABC’s broadcast operations shows that even investors are fed up with Disney’s woke agenda destroying shareholder value.
When a major investment firm tells you to shut down an entire television network rather than try to fix it, that’s not a business decision – that’s a mercy killing.
Joy Behar and The View represent everything wrong with modern media – wealthy coastal elites lecturing working Americans about how they should think and vote.
The Kimmel controversy exposed what everyone already suspected about Disney’s strategy.
Instead of providing entertainment that brings families together, they’ve spent years pushing divisive political content that drives viewers away.
You can’t build a sustainable business model by insulting your customers – but somehow Disney executives never figured that out.
The writing’s been on the wall ever since Disney decided to wage war on traditional American families through their programming choices.
The domino effect is already starting across liberal media
This isn’t happening in isolation – the entire woke media establishment is crumbling under the weight of their own extremism.
In July, Paramount announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show, saying the decision was unrelated to legal matters. Colbert called Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump "a big fat bribe" two days before he was told his show was canceled.⁴
In December, ABC paid $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ remarks on the E. Jean Carroll case.⁵
These networks spent years thinking they could attack conservatives without consequences, but President Trump’s return to power has changed the entire game.
Now they’re facing lawsuits, regulatory scrutiny, and advertiser boycotts from Americans who refuse to subsidize their own destruction.
Joy Behar and her fellow travelers at The View built their careers on dividing America – now they’re learning that division has a price.
The recommendation to shut down ABC’s broadcast operations entirely sends a clear message to every woke media executive: Americans are done funding your propaganda operations.
For Behar, who’s spent decades spewing hatred toward conservatives from her perch at ABC, the possibility of the network’s complete shutdown represents the ultimate vindication of everything conservatives have been saying about biased media.
The American people have spoken – and they’re changing the channel for good.
¹ Reuters, "Wall Street firm calls for Disney to shut down ABC, move content to streaming after Jimmy Kimmel drama," New York Post, September 23, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Ibid.
