Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the air

[JimmySpeaks]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/abc-suspends-jimmy-kimmel-live-charlie-kirk-1236374150/
 

 

Karma Sammich 

[headshuck]

[Offthemat]

I agree with Charlie. 

[JimmySpeaks]

Sounds like a couple entrepreneurs that own numerous abc stations told Disney that they’ll no longer be broadcasting the Kimmel show.  The free market spoke and the decision was made to pull it everywhere.  Too bad for Jimmy blackface 

[Caveira]

 

[Caveira]

 

[Caveira]

Pritzker playing politics.   Remember when Disney fired Gina Carano.    Weird right?

Pritzker slams ABC’s indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show: ‘An attack on free speech’

[headshuck]

Interesting times.

Colbert, Acosta, Reid, Lemon, Cuomo, Kimmel… who’s next? The View?

[JimmySpeaks]

3 minutes ago, headshuck said:

Interesting times.

Colbert, Acosta, Reid, Lemon, Cuomo, Kimmel… who’s next? The View?

Yes!!  I m predicting the habitual lies will bring them down next. 

[uncle bernard]

2 hours ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Sounds like a couple entrepreneurs that own numerous abc stations told Disney that they’ll no longer be broadcasting the Kimmel show.  The free market spoke and the decision was made to pull it everywhere.  Too bad for Jimmy blackface 

lol they were literally threatened by Trump’s FCC. 

[JimmySpeaks]

5 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

lol they were literally threatened by Trump’s FCC. 

FCC has done nothing and if they’re innocent why would they be worried ?  Disney was threaten d by franchise owners and they caved. 

[JimmySpeaks]

6 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

lol they were literally threatened by Trump’s FCC. 

Dems just getting their karma sammich is all. 

[El Luchador]

14 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

lol they were literally threatened by Trump’s FCC. 

The reality was they were dropped by local networks over it. He was pull out of 15 million homes today so Disney made an economic decision. Also his show was losing money. They were happy to have an excuse.

[Caveira]

Just now, El Luchador said:

The reality was they were dropped by local networks over it. He was pull out of 15 million homes today so Disney made an economic decision. Also his show was losing money. They were happy to have an excuse.

That + 

• Decade-long slump: Viewership for Jimmy Kimmel Live! has fallen nearly 50% over the last decade. The show averaged around 2.8 million total viewers in 2015 but saw its total viewership drop to approximately 1.5 million by early 2025.

[JimmySpeaks]

Ratings matter.  

[Caveira]

23 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

lol they were literally threatened by Trump’s FCC. 

Analyst: Network Late-Night Talk Shows Became Unprofitable in 2023 (Updated) 

By Jed Rosenzweig

AUGUST 5, 2025 5:13 AM ET13 COMMENTS

 

Photos: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS, Randy Holmes/ABC, Todd Owyoung/NBC

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on 8/5/25. It was updated on 8/22/25 to include an addendum on retransmission fees (see bottom of post)

When CBS announced that it was cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after the 2025–26 season, the decision stunned most industry observers. The Late Showis still the highest-rated program in its time slot, outperforming The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonand Jimmy Kimmel Live! in total viewers and in the key demos more often than not. To even most insiders, Colbert’s Late Showseemed untouchable.

So why would CBS cancel it?

The timing, of course, is impossible to ignore. Colbert has been a known thorn in the side of Donald Trump, who himself called for Colbert’s termination last fall. And at the time that CBS announced The Late Show’s cancellation, the network’s parent company, Paramount, was in the final stages of seeking regulatory approval for its merger with Skydance from the Trump-controlled FCC. (That approval was granted a week later.)

CBS, in its announcement, termed its decision to cancel The Late Show as “purely financial.” Subsequently, insiders at the network leaked that the show was losing money—to the tune of $40 million dollars.

We asked a network TV research analyst familiar with the financial realities of late night television from the inside (at networks other than CBS) for their thoughts on whether that number rang true. 

Their response was a qualified yes: “I would believe anywhere between $25M-$40M.”

“Revenues have dropped at a pace that far outstrips the speed at which costs can be reduced,” added the analyst, who asked to remain anonymous but shared financial modeling with LateNighterfor this story. 

Though the analyst is bound by non-disclosure agreements from sharing any proprietary network research data, using blended Nielsen ratings, ad pricing estimates, and reported historical production costs for The Late Show, The Tonight Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they built a hypothetical but (based on their experience) realistic model that lays bare the harsh economic realities faced by the average 11:35pm talk show. Their conclusion: 2022 was the last year most (if not all) of the traditional network late-night television shows likely turned a profit.

As for how we got here, the story begins and ends with the decline in linear ratings.

 

Ratings for the big three 11:30pm network talk shows have dropped sharply since 2015.

According to Nielsen Live+7 data, all three network 11:35pm shows—CBS’s The Late Show, NBC’s The Tonight Show, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!—have seen declines of 70–80% in the key 18–49 demographic since 2015. That year marked the beginning of a new era: Colbert took over from David Letterman, Fallon had just succeeded Jay Leno, and Kimmel had moved up to 11:35pm.

By 2018 the writing was on the wall that the time period that was once a cash cow was in free fall. According to one frequently cited report from the advertising data firm Guideline, brands spent $439 million advertising on network late-night television that year. By 2024, that number had been cut in half. 

YouTube views and digital extensions helped fill the void for a time, but they weren’t nearly enough to stop the bleeding. “Digital is a band-aid, not a cure,” the analyst explained. “It helps, but it doesn’t scale at the level that network TV would need to backfill for what has become a significant loss of traditional ad revenue.”

[Doublehalf]

Cancel culture.

[Caveira]

Just now, Doublehalf said:

Cancel culture.

Comment on those ratings graphs above boss 

[Offthemat]

I find a difference between the gov’t pressuring social media outlets to censor posters who are posting truthful information and the gov’t enforcing public service regulations against broadcasting lies. 

[Doublehalf]

1 minute ago, Caveira said:

Comment on those ratings graphs above boss 

Cancel culture boss.

[Caveira]

Just now, Doublehalf said:

Cancel culture boss.

Not the abject loss of audience of revenue.  Got it.   ABC should be forced to keep losing money?

[JimmySpeaks]

Free market has spoken. You suck, you lie and suck and you’re gone 

[Doublehalf]

Just now, Caveira said:

Not the abject loss of audience of revenue.  Got it.   ABC should be forced to keep losing money?

Cancel culture boss.

[JimmySpeaks]

All the shit wokesters are crying about now is why musk had to buy twitter. 

[Caveira]

1 minute ago, Doublehalf said:

Cancel culture boss.

I guess you got me then lol.