Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late-night television after a brief suspension drew 6.26 million total viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, making it the show’s highest-performing regularly scheduled episode in over a decade.
The robust ratings are remarkable partly because a typical episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” attracts roughly 1.6 million viewers.
Disney, which owns ABC, highlighted that the latest episode did not air in 23% of American households. That’s because Nexstar and Sinclair, two major owners of ABC broadcast affiliates, continue to refuse to run the show following Kimmel’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
First time I watched him and now I know why I don’t watch him lol
Perhaps they could use this as proof that they don’t need any of those Nexstar or Sinclair stations and remove their affiliate status.
If I were Iger and an actual patriot instead of being a billionaire scumbag, I’d start by removing all permission for NexStar & Sinclair to use any of Disney’s content.
This is an example of how fighting fascist make you stronger.
Remember, don’t comply in advance.
Disney did comply in advance.
Fuck Disney with the pointy end of the stick.
That’s great. I love when Disney makes a lot of money
Refuse to air? We will just watch it online. Local TV stations are dead anyway
Disney, which owns ABC, highlighted that the latest episode did not air in 23% of American households. That’s because Nexstar and Sinclair, two major owners of ABC broadcast affiliates, continue to refuse to run the show following Kimmel’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The party of anti-censorship strikes again.
But he didn’t even say anything about Charlie Kirk. He talked about people’s reactions and Trump’s.
I don’t normally watch Kimmel but I did watch that last episode to contribute to the Streisand effect
It was Kimmel’s remarks about Trump that got him censored. Kimmel didn’t say anything at all about Charlie Kirk, he only commented on Trump/MAGAs reaction to Charlie Kirk’s shooting.
Jimmy deserves it for sure.
ABC doesn’t.
Disney, which owns ABC, highlighted that the latest episode did not air in 23% of American households
This is even crazier.
Also, I hate how all the articles say his comments were about the Charlie Kirk assassination when they were actually about Trump.
Sounds like it’s all an excuse to cause uproar to forget about the Trumpstein files.
If Magats could read they’d be sooo upset we didn’t forget.
I’m sure there is a correlation between the news sources saying that and the demographic who reads those articles living in a location that did not get the broadcast locally
One example of a local station that has continued to boycott Kimmel is Seattle…
Which station
Edit: KOMO
I’ve never watched him, but I watched the monologue on YouTube. At the time it had been up for just 4 hours and had about three and a half million views.
It’s at 19 million views right now.
Yeah, about an hour after being posted when I watched it, it was at 440K views
I watched it on YouTube. Never watched Kimmel before. I wasn’t missing anything. Not that I dislike him or anything he was saying. He said all the right things to an audience that probably needed to hear it and wasn’t hearing it elsewhere. It all just struck me as very milquetoast, lowest common denominator entertainment/sermonizing. Half the comments on Lemmy hit harder. Seems like a relic of a pre-internet time to me (a terminally online weirdo).
100% agree. I only watched it out of morbid curiosity to see how he’d handle it, and it was disappointingly diplomatic, and the crocodile tears made me throw up in my mouth a little, but it was probably as much as a corporate drone like him could get away with.
I will be returning to not watching him again moving forward.
I didn’t like Jimmy Kimmel but now I do lol
That’s an I Love Lucy number. That’s amazing. Y’all that might not know the history of television’s ratings don’t know what a compliment that is by the way.
Is this new coke all over again?
