{"id":168426,"date":"2025-09-25T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168426\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:12:06","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-returns-bigger-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168426\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel returns bigger than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The FCC\u2019s efforts to shut down Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s platform have seemingly blown up in its face, with the return of Kimmel\u2019s talk show breaking viewership records on YouTube. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/784355\/jimmy-kimmel-return-brendan-carr-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday\u2019s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> contained Kimmel\u2019s most-watched monologue ever on the video platform, a 28-minute segment addressing the censorship which has reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over 19 million views<\/a> at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The increased viewership could be explained by people who are unable to watch the show on network television flocking to YouTube instead, as Nexstar and Sinclair continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/782970\/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-disney-charlie-kirk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">block it from being broadcast<\/a> on roughly one-quarter of ABC stations. Nielsen figures reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/24\/business\/media\/jimmy-kimmel-ratings.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> that don\u2019t include streaming viewership also show that Tuesday\u2019s episode averaged 6.2 million viewers \u2014 nearly four times higher than his usual audience. These figures are preliminary and expected to grow in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Poetically, it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/781148\/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-monologue-brendan-carr-censorship-first-amendment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the party<\/a> proclaiming to be the public defenders of \u201cfree speech\u201d has unintentionally amplified Kimmel\u2019s platform, even as 20 percent of ABC affiliates have bent the knee and boycotted the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FCC\u2019s efforts to shut down Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s platform have seemingly blown up in its face, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,43,44,64,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-168426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}