‘The Huge Cash Present’ panel discusses ABC’s resolution to drag Jimmy Kimmel’s showcase the air after he made controversial feedback in regards to the Charlie Kirk assassination.
ABC’s transfer to droop Jimmy Kimmel’s present following his feedback on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk comes amid a decline in late-night TV viewership and promoting income.
Disney-owned ABC introduced the transfer on Wednesday after a pair of distinguished media teams that personal ABC associates, Nexstar and Sinclair, introduced they’d preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” indefinitely following his feedback. It is unclear when Kimmel’s present will return to the airwaves.
Sources confirmed to FOX Enterprise that CEO Bob Iger was concerned in eradicating Kimmel from the air.
ABC’s suspension of Kimmel’s present comes within the wake of the latest resolution by Paramount, the mother or father firm of CBS, to finish “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” after its present season concludes.
Although the printed networks do not disclose particular information in regards to the profitability or bills of their respective late-night applications, Puck reported that CBS insiders stated Colbert’s present was dropping upwards of $40 million a 12 months. Knowledge displaying declines in viewership in addition to advert income suggests late-night TV monetary woes could also be felt at different networks.
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It is unclear when Kimmel’s present will return following its indefinite preemption. (Reuters/Mike Blake / Reuters)
LateNighter reported that “Jimmy Kimmel Stay,” in addition to CBS’s “The Late Present” and NBC’s “The Tonight Present with Seth Meyers” have seen viewership declines of 70% to 80% since 2015 – the 12 months Kimmel’s present moved to 11:35 p.m.
Nielsen information cited within the outlet’s report confirmed “Jimmy Kimmel Stay’s” share of the important thing demographic of 18 to 49-year-olds declined from 0.68 in 2013-14 to 0.16 in 2024-25.
By comparability, The Late Present’s share of the 18-49 demographic was 0.18 in 2024-25, whereas “The Tonight Present’s” was 0.13 in that interval.
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Kimmel and different late-night hosts have seen scores decline in recent times. (Valerie Terranova/WireImage / Getty Photos)
A community TV analysis analyst advised LateNighter that 2022 was seemingly the final 12 months that almost all and even all the standard community’s late-night exhibits turned a revenue. Additionally they projected that the web losses are prone to widen within the years forward.
The decline of late-night TV viewership on broadcast networks has coincided with a corresponding lower in promoting income.
Promoting information firm Guideline reported that late-night exhibits on main networks noticed their advert income decline from $439 million in 2018 to $220 million final 12 months.
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CBS mother or father Paramount introduced that Stephen Colbert’s late-night present will not be renewed after its present season ends. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
TV networks have additionally made different cutbacks to the late-night lineup in an effort to shore up their funds amid the evolving viewership and promoting panorama.
Final 12 months, finances cuts at NBC prompted the elimination of the 8G Band, which was the home band for “Late Night time With Seth Meyers” from 2014 to 2024.
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CBS additionally opted in opposition to changing “The Late Late Present with James Corden” when the host departed in 2023 after eight years with the present.
The “Late Late Present” was on the air with quite a lot of hosts from 1995 till two years in the past, with Tom Snyder, Craig Kilborn and Craig Ferguson previous Corden because the host.