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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.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

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

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

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

Remember, don't comply in advance.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 minutes ago

Disney did comply in advance.

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

First time i have watched him. Had never really known who he was before.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 85 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] goldenlocks@lemmy.world -3 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 minutes ago

They rely on trump. Their ratings we're up when he was first in and up again the second time.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca -2 points 58 minutes ago

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

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 48 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 28 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

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.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I know what you're saying, but his post didnt seem very happy either lol.

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

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.

[–] blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah. It's beautiful, isn't it?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Jimmy deserves it for sure.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

ABC doesn't.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 hours ago

It's at 19 million views right now.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, about an hour after being posted when I watched it, it was at 440K views

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

I didn’t like Jimmy Kimmel but now I do lol