| ▲ | Sinclair Will Preempt Jimmy Kimmel's Show When It Returns to ABC(deadline.com) |
| 14 points by donsupreme 13 hours ago | 6 comments |
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| ▲ | leakycap 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not giving viewers what they want is an interesting new business model for a broadcaster. |
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| ▲ | SilverElfin 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This isn’t a surprise given that ABC’s decision to pause the show was made desperately after various station owners made the choice independently. Now ABC is reversing their pause but the stations still control their own programming. |
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| ▲ | anigbrowl 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Who even watches broadcast TV (vs internet clips) any more besides boomers?
It's been sort of funny watching all the micro-influencers who habitually kick the corpse of legacy media for easy clicks suddenly getting very worked up about Nielsen ratings |
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| ▲ | gigatexal 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don’t care for the rest of Jimmy’s show with the celebrities and the interviews. I don’t give an f about famously rich folks and their lives but I find jimmy hilarious and his monologue funny. So I watch the clip of that when it hits YouTube. He’s got 20m YouTube subs for the show. I bet the monologue I watch gets more views than the TV show and by extension also has a more favorable demographic for advertisers on Youtube than the TV show on ABC. | |
| ▲ | 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | SilverElfin 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Very few watch it - big influencers on social media have far larger audiences. In fact I think that’s also why the show being taken off air was polarizing. A lot of people watching clips of Kimmel during this controversy didn’t see the part left out of most clips shown in news articles, where Kimmel painted people mourning Kirk as toddlers mourning a goldfish or something like that. I think that would be offensive / insensitive to a lot more people than are currently offended. |
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