{"id":33107,"date":"2025-09-24T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jimmy-kimmels-comeback-show-reached-6-26-million-viewers-disney-says\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:11:14","slug":"jimmy-kimmels-comeback-show-reached-6-26-million-viewers-disney-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jimmy-kimmels-comeback-show-reached-6-26-million-viewers-disney-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s comeback show reached 6.26 million viewers, Disney says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/65e9f2166080194819fd98d9?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Host Jimmy Kimmel speaking at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.\"\/><figcaption>Host Jimmy Kimmel speaking at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Pizzello\/AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s return to late-night TV reached an audience of 6.2 million viewers on broadcast, Disney said.<\/li>\n<li>In Q2 of this year, Kimmel&#039;s show averaged 1.77 million viewers, Business Insider previously reported.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday&#039;s show didn&#039;t reach nearly a quarter of ABC affiliates, Disney said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s return to late-night reached 6.2 million viewers on broadcast, despite not reaching nearly a quarter of ABC affiliates, according to a statement from Disney.<\/p>\n<p>Disney cited Nielsen Preliminary Fast National Live+Same Day Program Ratings for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#039;s episode of &quot;Jimmy Kimmel Live&quot; was the host&#039;s first show after being temporarily suspended following his controversial remarks about the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>In the second quarter of this year, Kimmel&#039;s show had averaged around 1.77 million viewers, Business Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Late-night TV continues to grapple with declining ratings as well as increasing pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies in government.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host Jimmy Kimmel speaking at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello\/AP Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s return to late-night TV reached an audience of 6.2 million viewers on broadcast, Disney said. In Q2 of this year, Kimmel&#039;s show averaged 1.77 million viewers, Business Insider previously reported. Tuesday&#039;s show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}