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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live
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1.7 Million might be actual broadcast figures, but streaming would have taken those figures higher.
How much will they have to refund advertisers who purchased for the season?
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Aw, c'mon, David---sure there is. You might pay $780 million in a lawsuit settlement, but...
Nobody here has suggested that Tyler Robinson shouldn't be tried, convicted and punished. Neither did Kimmel.
Correct.
It's a leap from one guy in a relationship with someone who is trans, who says he's "had enough of the hatred", to "this is the work of the radical left".
There may be stuff that comes out in discovery that shows something other than being in love with a person he felt was endangered by right wing candidates and policies made him do this, but this ain't it----and if anybody deserves a review of their contracts and their fitnesses as licensees, it's the outlets that have been making this about the political opposition instead of the act of one person who fired one shot and murdered Charlie Kirk in cold blood:
Jesse Watters declares ‘They are at war with us!’ after Charlie Kirk killing
‘Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it?’ Jesse Watters declared on Wednesday. ‘This can never happen again. It ends now!’
www.the-independent.com
Greg Gutfeld rants at co-host for bringing up Melissa Hortman in Charlie Kirk debate
Democratic lawmaker was assassinated along with her husband in June
www.the-independent.com
They might shift the spots into other dayparts at huge discounts, to compansate advertisers.
They've suspended the broadcast "indefinitely". They haven't cancelled the show. They might, but they haven't yet.
Depends on how long the show is off.
Who here said that the killing of opposing voices is justifiable? I am not seeing it.
Yet ABC/Disney was the one that made the final decision for what they thought was best for their business.
No one. At most the citation seemed to be some surveys have supposedly said there are people who find the United Healthcare incident justified. Likely true that there are such surveys, though how reliable and statistically sound they are isn’t answered when just pointing to their general existence with no actual results.
Again---Nexstar---a group with 28 ABC affiliates---pulled the show and the FCC Chair went on a podcast to encourage other ABC affiliates to do the same. ABC needs to get a handle on this, and it can't do that with the show on the air but not cleared in more than 10% of markets. So ABC won't air the show tonight and probably at least for the rest of the week.
They may cancel it, but---contrary to what Trump tweeted out at 1:00 a.m. UK time, he hasn't yet.
I don't have the figures, and don't want to waste time looking. But news based or topic based shows have a really short shelf life.
If someone can find that date, this would be an interesting sidebar to the discussion though.
From my TV experience in the US, it was always seen that daily shows generally had less than a 12 hour shelf life. In fact,, some research showed that those who used any kind of recording device had only the most recent episode saved; that means that the day following the one with the content in question was overwritten.
Pure news shows had a shelf life in our study of less than a few hours.
His ratings have plummeted 70-80% since a 2013 peak. This is not a surprise, as just about everyone under 50 has ditched regular TV for Netflix, Hulu, and streaming......
Analyst: Network Late-Night Talk Shows Became Unprofitable in 2023 (Updated) - LateNighter
Are we to really believe CBS when it says 'The Late Show' is losing $40 million a year? We asked a network TV research analyst familiar with the financial realities of late-night television from the inside (at networks other than CBS) whether that number rang true. Their answer was a qualified yes.
latenighter.com
However, his nightly monologue clips get about 2 million views on YouTube.
The FCC chairman openly threatened them. I know we have the apologists here but this is akin to saying someone paying extortion money to the mob is doing it freely and independently.
Yet Carol Burnett clips that after over 50 years old have millions of views on YouTube.
Average nightly viewers for Q2 2025. Includes same-day Live+3 days and Live+7 days:
Total Audience:
1. Gutfeld (FOX): 3.29 million (Gutfeld airs at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central, so HUT levels are higher)
2. Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS): 2.42 million (airs at 11:35 p.m. Eastern/10:35 p.m. Central)
3. Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC): 1.77 million (11:35 Eastern/10:35 Central)
4. Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC): 1.19 million (11:35/10:35)
5. The Daily Show (Comedy Central): 994,000 (airs at 11:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 p.m. Central)
6. Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC): 900,000 (airs at 12:37 a.m. Eastern/11:37 p.m. Central)
18-49 Adults:
1. Gutfeld (FOX) 238,000
2. Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC): 220,000
3. Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS): 219,000
4. The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 190,000
5. Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC): 157,000
6. Late Show with Seth Meyers (NBC): 111,000
Full report here: Here Are Final Late Night Ratings for Q2 2025 - LateNighter
We are long past cancel culture. They want to imprison their critics.
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