A lot for the decline of late night time TV rankings.
In his return to ABC’s lineup on Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel’s late night time present scored 6.26 million viewers, based on Nielsen quick nationwide knowledge. That whole comes regardless of the present being unavailable in 23% of the U.S. due to native TV giants Nexstar and Sinclair preempting protection. The preliminary knowledge additionally doesn’t embrace streaming.
For context, Stephen Colbert’s Late Present led late night time programming during the last TV season with round 2.5 million viewers per night time.
Moreover, Jimmy Kimmel Stay had a 0.87 ranking within the Adults 18-49 demo, which was the present’s highest ranking within the demo in a decade for a commonly scheduled episode. Kimmel’s monologue clip additionally had greater than 26 million views throughout YouTube and social.
Kimmel’s present had been off the air since final Wednesday resulting from backlash from the FCC, Nexstar, and Sinclair over feedback Kimmel made relating to Charlie Kirk’s killer. In his Tuesday monologue, Kimmel defined these feedback and known as out the FCC for pressuring native associates to preempt the present.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Nexstar advised ADWEEK it could proceed to preempt the present however was in “productive discussions” with Disney. Nexstar can be at present searching for FCC approval for a $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna.
