The robust ratings — over 6 million — are remarkable partly because the typical episode of Kimmel’s talk show attracts roughly 1.6 million viewers.

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.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    139·
    20 天前

    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.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        231·
        20 天前

        It’s tempting to imagine that, but I doubt he actually cares at all (or is even fully conscious of the discord). This is all distraction, and he’s playing the agitator role to muddy the waters around his real scandals. Newspapers are a relic of a bygone time, but it’s still true that journalists only have so many column inches. The human capacity to care about many things at once is limited, and Trump is really good at creating reasons to be pissed off.

          • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
            8·
            20 天前

            This is a perfect reason why your lawyer tells you to keep your mouth shut.

            Mentioning that ABC apparently told the WH he was let go, directly. Why would they do that without a legitimate and serious federal law being broken? (there wasn’t one)

            Then elucidating your intentions of wealth and political gain by writing about an assumed bias of the entertainment content and using the word ‘lucrative’ when comparing to a previous case with the same proposed defendant.

          • themaninblack@lemmy.world
            6·
            20 天前

            This is a man who should never be trusted with the nuclear codes. I bought my ticket the day after the election and am now living permanently in a safer country.

            America is cooked.

          • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
            3·
            20 天前

            Sure, but imagine I’m right, and he’s just trying to stir shit up. Wouldn’t he write exactly the same thing? Like if he was actually upset, he’s going to pretend like he doesn’t care. Like with the Epstein stuff.

            I could be entirely wrong, though. In the end, doesn’t make much difference.

        • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
          18·
          20 天前

          Both things can be true I suspect.

          He’s incredibly thin skinned, so this definitely gets to him. But also, he’s using it as a distraction.

          • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
            8·
            20 天前

            Kimmel’s next episode should start with the fash removing the Epistein friendship statue from the National Mall & then do a deep dive into how close they were.

            Bring the birthday book out too. Maybe have an Epstein victim as a guest if they would like to come on.

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          13·
          20 天前

          He cares. He cares a lot. Ratings and perceived popularity have always been incredibly important to him, like he’s a mean girl in high school or something. He really is that small-minded and petty. Comes with the territory for fascist Dear Leaders.

        • blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world
          10·
          20 天前

          I like remaining wary of folks playing a deeper game but let’s be honest; folks in trumps orbit may be but I very much doubt he is.

          He repeats the same gripes all the time.

          His not-DM to Bondi is literally the same language he uses in campaign rallies.

          I think all of this bothers him way more than the normal person and WAY more than a president should care.

  • Phegan@lemmy.world
    411·
    20 天前

    This is an example of how fighting fascist make you stronger.

    Remember, don’t comply in advance.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
    201·
    20 天前

    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.

  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    20 天前

    Perhaps they could use this as proof that they don’t need any of those Nexstar or Sinclair stations and remove their affiliate status.

    • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
      17·
      20 天前

      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.

  • merdaverse@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 天前

    I don’t normally watch Kimmel but I did watch that last episode to contribute to the Streisand effect

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    51·
    20 天前

    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.

  • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
    411·
    20 天前

    First time I watched him and now I know why I don’t watch him lol

  • goldenlocks@lemmy.world
    419·
    20 天前

    No matter how much attention they get out of this, the content sucks. No one watched it anyways and network tv is dying for a good reason.