On first glance, I thought that was millions of people. As in 160,000 people
âThere is a credible basis to suspect that the Board and executives may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and good faith by placing improper political or affiliate considerations above the best interests of the Company and its stockholders,â
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Just as an aside, not really relevant but on CNN the other morning, the anchor (Lynda Kinkade, who is Australian) kept referring to the ABC. Which made me smirk.
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Itâs not that far off it -
All told, the Stephen Colbert-hosted show averaged 2.42 million viewers across 41 first-run episodes, comfortably outpacing ABCâs Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.77 million) and NBCâs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1.19 million). In the advertiser-coveted 18â49 demo, however, Kimmel surged ahead with 220,000 viewersâhis strongest performance in a yearâedging out Colbert (219,000) and leaving Fallon (at 157,000) in a distant third.
Those are âaveragesâ not our skewed reach numbers, but they all do awful in the demos, because no one watches TV like that. But it does make sense that these shows arenât really sustainable - but Iâd think thereâs more fat to cut first, like bands and smaller studios etc before pulling the plug if it wasnât political.
They and Nexstar just realized that âyeah, ABCâs sports inventory is pretty attractiveâ.
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Pretty sure ABC has the superbowl in 2027 (16 months). If ABC threatened to affiliate with someone else then Sinclair & Nexstar about lose on that and even other sports. So itâs not surprising they caved.
also they would have to pay a fee to ABC for not showing as well. So it would of been financially bad decisions all around
Some of that is true, but also ignores that ABC etc all air these shows on their streamers as well, and theyâre great platforms to promote their other content, Kimmel always has Bachelor people, stars from Marvel/Disney projects and other ABC/Disney TV programmes as well. And in reality his show would be so much cheaper than Colbertâs, and he does so many brand integrations and does better on socials. If the band werenât all his friends, I could see that going easily, you barely ever see them in vision and he barely speaks to them.
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No wonder the cancellation hub crashed.
A Disney source told reporter Marisa Kabas that there were 1.7 million paid streaming cancellations across Disney+, Hulu and ESPN on the week of September 17-23.
Remember, you can bundle them, so the figure isnât double-counting.
(Should note that Disney told investors in early August that it will get 10m new subscribers between July and September. What a way to undercut that.)
Then donât forgetâŚ
âŚand the impending NFL-ESPN deal and there will be a lot of explanations to do.
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Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
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Taylor Swift made history on Monday nightâs âThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonâ with a 45-minute interview, the longest in the showâs history, while promoting her new album 'The Life of a Showgirl,
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Jimmy Fallonâs chat with Taylor can now be seen on his showâs YouTube channel. The episode will also air on 7Bravo this Thursday (October 9) at 3.30pm.
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Holy clickbait Batman
Jimmy Kimmel has reflected that in the early years of his late night show he âwished it would be cancelledâ because he âdidnât knowâ what he was doing and would furiously ring up friends to appear as guests.
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I love when news sites listen to a podcast, take one point out of it, make a clickbait title and copy and paste large chunks of the transcript. Not even journalism, but Metro never really has been.
Jimmy spoke at Bloombergâs Screentime event a couple weeks ago, itâs a really interesting listen (and so is the podcast Metro rips off, which they do link towards the start of their article)
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