Nosedive! Jimmy Kimmel's Ratings Plunge to the Bottom of the Ocean After Return From Suspension
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Embarrassing!
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His return is almost a humiliation ritual.
If it was a ratings boost gimmick then it failed miserably!
Not really, I just looked at the actual numbers. The return night he got around 6.7m viewers. Then the next time he got 2.77 million viewers. That kind of dropoff for a huge episode is expected. For them it's like the superbowl, not all the games do as well as the superbowl.
But, before all this happened he was averaging 1.2 m viewers per episode.
He's doing better than ever ratings-wise.
It's a low bar.
Johnny Carson averaged probably 3 times that for the entire run of his show. And yes, I get it-more competition for viewership these days.
But a closer comparison? Jay Leno averaged double the 2.7 million- 5-6 million-for a full decade. Letterman averaged between 3 and 6 for most of his run.
Jimmy Fallon is currently at about 1.1 nightly. That's about where Kimmel will end up.
Carson did around 5 million a night, sometimes as high as 10 depending on the guest. But, keep in mind this is before YouTube when people couldn't watch clips or anything. Also, this is before social media, streaming, 24 hour news, and all those things so it was very much a captive audience.
Back in the 80s, it was VERY normal for shows to hit 20m a night, hell the Cosby's did 25m per episode. Dukes of Hazzard did 20m per episode.
A LOT more people watched TV back then. Now everyone is watching 100 different streaming platforms.
FAFO Baby!
Disney world is empty... is it the Jimmy Kimmel effect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3mZbXe4ZeM
Pissing off everyone except the 2% LGBTQ+Pedo crowd during an economic downturn is an AMAZING business plan.
As an aside: Biden Admin lied so much about their numbers...restatements of Biden performance (last week) is that we grew 4% in the 1st Quarter this year....2nd and 3rd look to be similar. WHILE getting inflation back under 3%. There's been NO economic downturn, quite the opposite.
A blind man could have seen this coming.
dive dive all dive...Captain we are near the bottom .....keep going sailor we will be n the bottom soon
His ratings are going lower than a HOOKER's panties on a Saturday night!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN!!!!! Where's Bugsy when you need him!!!!
1942 Video of Ol' Bugsy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLn_His9Yw
Let’s act like we fired Jimmy, BLAME TRUMP, and then we’ll bring Jimmy back, and screw MEGA, what could wrong with this plan?
Here's the thing if we're so bad.... as conservatives, love of God love country love of family, then why are there so many people united.
It was costing 100 million a year to producer his stand up drivel. I'm guessing most of that was getting scammed off somehow.
Maybe CBS should reconsider firing Stephen Colbert as he was only costing $40 million per year.