Fairly obvious ABC is making a business decision
Quick bit of research on Kimmel's ratings vs Trump's polling leading up to the election. White males aged 18-49 are the key demographic for advertisers in the US:
Kimmel's ratings:
In Q1 2025 (January–March 2025), ratings dropped compared to Q4 2024, with a 7–8% decline in total viewers and a 24% drop in the 18–49 demographic, reflecting a broader late-night ratings slump
In Q2 2025 (April–June 2025), the show averaged 1.77 million total viewers, down from earlier years but still competitive, and it regained the lead in the 18–49 demographic with 220,000 viewers, its best in a year.
By September 2025, viewership fell to 1.104 million per episode, an 11% drop from August 2025, placing it third behind The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1.33 million) and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Trump's voters
- Men aged 18–29 supported Trump by a 14-point margin (56% Trump vs. 42% Harris), a significant shift from 2020 when Joe Biden won this group by 11 points.
- Men under 45 voted for Trump by an 8-point margin (52% Trump vs. 44% Harris), a 16-point swing from 2020 when Biden won by 8 points.
- Among young white men without college degrees, Trump led Harris 56% to 40%.
- This strong performance was attributed to Trump’s campaign targeting young men through appearances on platforms like Joe Rogan’s podcast and appeals to economic concerns, which resonated with 78% of young voters prioritizing the economy voting for Trump.
Advertisers realize their customer base is tired of being labeled as a fascist Nazi colonizer and maybe they made a couple of phone calls.
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Don't confuse the rats on here with facts and numbers. They just feel kimmel shouldn't be fired.
Johnny Carson averaged 9 million viewers. In his last week he averaged 19 million. Kimmel will average 1 million his last week. Only the hardcore left watches his garbage. He doesn't appeal to any other demographic which of course is bad business. But again, the left doesn't care about numbers and shit.
Add all three of the late night shows together and they average about a 3rd of what Carson did by himself. Their brand of far-left late night is just bad business. A horrible business model.
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USAID money funding these garbage OTA network late-night propaganda show has gone poof so they have to charge market advertising rates that aren’t subsidized/laundered via an NGO.
Any TugTard who disputes this has not been paying attention to the corruption that was occurring with USAID and the lack of any auditing where that money went, so fuck off. The Colbert and Kimmel shows could not exist without taxpayer money being funneled to pay the bills.
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Throw pharma ads out, who doesn’t actually care about how many eyes are on the show and it will really implode.
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Fearless Leader calculates free speech by the talent and appeal of the person saying it! When ratings are poor, free speech no longer applies for said person, and we must cancel them!
Cheers to Chairman Trump for this fearless and brave policy.
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He's all yours lefties
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Speaking of Carson, his thoughts on this exact topic.
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Sounds like Kimmel could really code talk to straight white males.
Classic censorship.
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at one point he knew how to
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Some guy on X was asking women protesting about Kimmel if they would have sex with him
What?
That's a Kimmel bit
Oh well he has free speech
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You’re an idiot
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The libs seem to be boycotting Disney over this
Okay good. Woke Disney is right at the top of the list of shitty political companies.
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The difference between say, 1991 Disney and 2020s Disney is staggering. It was once family entertainment.
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And he's back...
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Wait, didn’t Trump cancel him?
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I was told Drumpf demanded Kimmel be fired or he’d pull the FCC license.
Example 1,353,935 of Dems/Leftists completely overreacting based solely on their emotions. A cult full of grown children like @HHusky.
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business decision
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Like we said.
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"business decision" to take him off
"business decision" to put him back on a few days later
Bob has decided chugging cope is not enough and has resorted to waterboarding himself with it.
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ABC paid the ransom. How is that not a business decision?
Imagine thinking that Trump forced them to cancel him.
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Nobody cares enough about Kimmel to need to cope anything
Except for the Trump is a fascist crowd being wrong again
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I said in the first thread before he was cancelled that I wanted him on the air humiliating himself.
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You say paying the ransom like it's a good thing.
Same shit as saying "art of the deal" every time Trump does something extreme and then walks it back.
Corporate is asking you to find Bob in this picture.
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So Trump decided to allow them to hire him back?
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Suspended? As in temporarily off the air and not cancelled?
Maybe ABC execs were watching Erika Kirk talk about forgiveness. Certainly not something anyone hears from the left.
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I wonder if they'll make him do a fake apology.
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The last time I can remember something like this was Letterman making comments that could have been construed towards her daughter. Took a week or so, but he eventually apologized
Then of course we found out he was shtumping his writer.
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Kimmel was suspended for almost four months in summer 2020 for the Man Show stuff being discovered again, including the blackface Karl Malone skits.
ABC allowed him to say it was a planned 3 month break, but it clearly was not.
He used the suspension to regroup and not be a misogynistic racist, or some similar phony excuse dipshit Dems fell for, to get him back on air parrot Dem talking points.
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Sinclair is still not airing the show until they meet with ABC.
They own the ABC stations in both Seattle and Portland.
