‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Returns With 6.3 Million Viewers on ABC Despite Being Unavailable in 23% of the Country

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-live-ratings-viewers-abc-1236528577/

20 comments

  1. And this is why they had to bring him back quickly. It was always about the money.

  2. And as of this writing, the official [YouTube channel](https://youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?si=k6PQfyFGUOSNfejh) has over **15 million** views and over _1 million_ likes.

    Edit: thanks to u/jdflyer for pointing out that the video has over 15 million views. I was in fact looking at the channel sub count (21+ million). Sorry for the error and it’s been corrected.

  4. Im honestly not that worried about Kimmel……no matter if the show was brought back or not, he would have been employed somewhere

    What my heart is focused on is all the people working normal careers who got let go because they merely used his own words, they don’t have it easy at all. My heart is thinking of them through all this

  5. To be honest I’m usually sleep when this is on, I stayed up last night and I’m thinking on just setting a timer on the TV and leaving it on when I sleep so it’ll count for viewership haha deadass

  6. Awesome!!!! I was part of those viewer numbers!!!! 

  7. Trump: I made that bitch famous…

    Edit: For those that didn’t get the reference, its what Kanye said (and made a song about it) for Taylor Swift

  8. If ABC didn’t bring him back, my guess was Netflix would have likely swooped in on his availability.

  10. Thats over 300 million Americans not watching.
    Solid ratings for network

  11. Seattleite here👋🏽 Sinclair locally but….

    I signed up for a DirectTV Streaming trial account using my corporate card so it had a setup address in a non-Sinclair/Nextstar Market. Stayed up late to give him the watch along with a like and subscribe.

  12. What an elaborate publicity stunt to increase your ratings

  13. On the contrary. The reason it’s so high on YouTube is precisely BECAUSE it wasn’t airing in those TV markets.

  14. The whole thing is a circus. Kimmel should have been out of a job years ago. Fallon is better

  15. Lmaooo and the bum ass president says his ratings are horrible. All they do is lie. On you if you can’t see how dumb they really are.

  17. They buried the lead. 23% of local stations should NOT be owned by 1 or 2 corporations

  18. “It’s not about the money , it’s about sending a message . Everything burns people. “

  19. This will go down by 85-90% within the next three weeks. All of this is feeling more and more like a publicity stunt

  20. I went out of my way to watch the return episode, the first time I’ve ever done that for his show.

    It was great.

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