TheCurl84 said:
I'm curious about the math on this. Is it 70% less than his audience on 9/23, or 70% less than his audience prior to being suspended? On 9/23 he had a huge audience, so that math could be a bit misleading if calculated against that night.
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On Thursday, Oct. 2, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" averaged 1.9 million viewers, shedding 71% of the audience that tuned in for the host's return from suspension.
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The decline among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54 was even more significant, as "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" managed 265,000 viewers from the critical group on Thursday night to lose 85% of the 1.7 million who tuned in on Sept. 23.
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Kimmel averaged 1.6 million viewers in 2025 before Disney decided to temporarily sideline him
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Gutfeld averaged 2.8 million total viewers to top Kimmel by 49% and 370,000 demo viewers for a 40% edge in that category, too.
Ellis Wyatt said:
The late night "comedy" shows aren't meant to be funny. They're meant to spread propaganda and shape opinions.
zgolfz85 said:
70% less than his comeback ep is way different from 70% drop in general. Unfortunately, his viewership is up just slightly from before the controversy. That will continue to taper down of course, but typical headline grabs with manipulated language about ratings drops.
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BREAKING: ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! has shed more than 70% of its key demographic audience since the host's much-hyped return on September 23
oh no said:zgolfz85 said:
70% less than his comeback ep is way different from 70% drop in general. Unfortunately, his viewership is up just slightly from before the controversy. That will continue to taper down of course, but typical headline grabs with manipulated language about ratings drops.
The headline was 100% accurate:Quote:
BREAKING: ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! has shed more than 70% of its key demographic audience since the host's much-hyped return on September 23
zgolfz85 said:
70% less than his comeback ep is way different from 70% drop in general. Unfortunately, his viewership is up just slightly from before the controversy. That will continue to taper down of course, but typical headline grabs with manipulated language about ratings drops.
the irony: it's free speech's fault all their shows imploded pic.twitter.com/d5Ej4RaTWK
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 19, 2025
carl spacklers hat said:zgolfz85 said:
70% less than his comeback ep is way different from 70% drop in general. Unfortunately, his viewership is up just slightly from before the controversy. That will continue to taper down of course, but typical headline grabs with manipulated language about ratings drops.
Kimmel's key demographic, the 18-49 y/o cohort, has fallen from a peak of 710,000 in 2013/14 to 160,000 in 2024/25. The last count showed approximately 250,000 viewers in that demo, which is still a slight uptick from where it has been trending for 24/25, but a substantial drop from the one-week bump he enjoyed after being put back on the air. So, his key demographic has been trending down since 2013/14 and is back near levels before his latest fiasco. Those numbers are terrible and are not going to return.the irony: it's free speech's fault all their shows imploded pic.twitter.com/d5Ej4RaTWK
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 19, 2025
TheEternalOptimist said:carl spacklers hat said:zgolfz85 said:
70% less than his comeback ep is way different from 70% drop in general. Unfortunately, his viewership is up just slightly from before the controversy. That will continue to taper down of course, but typical headline grabs with manipulated language about ratings drops.
Kimmel's key demographic, the 18-49 y/o cohort, has fallen from a peak of 710,000 in 2013/14 to 160,000 in 2024/25. The last count showed approximately 250,000 viewers in that demo, which is still a slight uptick from where it has been trending for 24/25, but a substantial drop from the one-week bump he enjoyed after being put back on the air. So, his key demographic has been trending down since 2013/14 and is back near levels before his latest fiasco. Those numbers are terrible and are not going to return.the irony: it's free speech's fault all their shows imploded pic.twitter.com/d5Ej4RaTWK
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 19, 2025
We don't need to cancel Kimmel.
The marketplace is going to finish him and Fallon.
Trend lines are reality.
agent-maroon said:
Looks like the ratings for all three late night shows started their decline around the 2015 -2016 time frame, which seems to correlate with when the constant Trump bashing began in earnest.
Weird...
agent-maroon said:
Looks like the ratings for all three late night shows started their decline around the 2015 -2016 time frame, which seems to correlate with when the constant Trump bashing began in earnest.
Weird...
zgolfz85 said:
I think you'd have to be a miserable freak to watch late night shows in 2025, or in recent years at all. I get it if you just want to watch the guests and music portion, but if you're tuning in for the opening monologue, you have to be near mentally ill level whacked in the head to want to watch that awful politically charged comedy. that's not comedy. it's political commentary parading around as "comedy"
titan said:agent-maroon said:
Looks like the ratings for all three late night shows started their decline around the 2015 -2016 time frame, which seems to correlate with when the constant Trump bashing began in earnest.
Weird...
Makes sense. They started all kissing up to the faux Obama narrative after Ferguson and by 2015 and the "outsiders" (including Trump) running were basically 100% on side of swamp. That never changed after Trump's inauguration and so they lost anyone not really left or seeking to be away from politics at late night.
agent-maroon said:
Yep. That's the night Fallon got a message from his network overlords to go political and it's very literally been downhill ever since. I was actually watching that night and remember well my thoughts that these were two real guys having a little fun at Trump's expense. It was great. But in the days that followed...
Just look at his ratings before this moment and compare them to now. The libtards sacrificed the late night talk show format on the woke altar and it's likely never coming back.
TheEternalOptimist said:carl spacklers hat said:zgolfz85 said:
70% less than his comeback ep is way different from 70% drop in general. Unfortunately, his viewership is up just slightly from before the controversy. That will continue to taper down of course, but typical headline grabs with manipulated language about ratings drops.
Kimmel's key demographic, the 18-49 y/o cohort, has fallen from a peak of 710,000 in 2013/14 to 160,000 in 2024/25. The last count showed approximately 250,000 viewers in that demo, which is still a slight uptick from where it has been trending for 24/25, but a substantial drop from the one-week bump he enjoyed after being put back on the air. So, his key demographic has been trending down since 2013/14 and is back near levels before his latest fiasco. Those numbers are terrible and are not going to return.the irony: it's free speech's fault all their shows imploded pic.twitter.com/d5Ej4RaTWK
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 19, 2025
We don't need to cancel Kimmel.
The marketplace is going to finish him and Fallon.
Trend lines are reality.
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"I don't know if there will be any late-night television shows on network TV in ten years. Maybe there'll be one but there won't be a lot of them. There's a lot to watch and now people can watch anything at anytime, they've got all these streaming services.
It used to be Johnny Carson was the only thing on at 11:30pm and so everybody watched and then David Letterman was on after Johnny so people watched those two shows but now they're so many options.
Maybe more significantly, the fact that people are easily able to watch your monologue online the next day, it really cancels out the need to watch it when it's on the air and once people stop watching it when it's on the air, networks are going to stop paying for it to be made."
El Gallo Blanco said:
Jimmy Fallon had Trump on during his first campaign and messed his hair up and seemed to have a genuinely good time with him....then there was outrage from the left and he felt compelled to issue a formal apology for basically "humanzing" Trump and not treating him like sh**. Lunacy.
Gigem314 said:El Gallo Blanco said:
Jimmy Fallon had Trump on during his first campaign and messed his hair up and seemed to have a genuinely good time with him....then there was outrage from the left and he felt compelled to issue a formal apology for basically "humanzing" Trump and not treating him like sh**. Lunacy.
Yeah, Jimmy was never very political at all until he was pressured after that interview to turn up the heat. After that, he looked so uncomfortable trying to force all the Trump bashing into his monologues. Prior to that, his show was all about silly fun (thank you notes, Christmas sweaters, SNL-like segments, cover songs). He had a fun format. Then his stakeholders ruined it and he lost a chunk of his audience, and COVID probably hurt his momentum as well without the studio audience.
It's a shame, because he appeared to really be carrying the baton from Carson and Leno with his own brand of fun comedy. Then feelings got hurt and he was forced to alter his approach.
Ellis Wyatt said:
Letterman went radically left later in his career.
techno-ag said:Ellis Wyatt said:
Letterman went radically left later in his career.
Yeah no politics in the old days. Rush lived in the same building as Paul Shaffer and they were cordial to one another if not downright friendly.
