The first new episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” since his suspension averaged 6.3 million viewers through conventional tv, greater than thrice the present’s typical TV viewership, ABC stated Wednesday afternoon.
Combining ABC, YouTube and social media platforms, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue about free speech in America has reached tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals, and the view counts are nonetheless rising.
The preliminary Nielsen rankings, which can develop later as soon as on-demand viewership is calculated, are all of the extra notable as a result of the Kimmel telecast was not proven on scores of native ABC-affiliated stations.
Two main TV station teams, Nexstar and Sinclair, are persevering with to preempt the speak present, and people teams have ABC-affiliated stations that attain roughly 23 % of American TV households.
Curious viewers in these markets probably turned to YouTube and different streaming platforms to see Kimmel’s practically 30-minute-long monologue.
The monologue video has been seen greater than 15 million occasions on YouTube to date, making it Kimmel’s most-viewed monologue of all time on the platform.
Previously, Kimmel’s most-watched YouTube video was the monologue when he tearfully revealed his son Billy’s coronary heart illness 8 years in the past.
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