David Letterman’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night delivered the ABC late-night show its biggest Wednesday audience since its 2003 debut. A total of 2.35 million viewers watched Letterman’s first visit to Kimmel. The second-best Wednesday for Kimmel came on January 4, 2006, just after ABC’s broadcast of the Rose Bowl, when 2.305 million viewers tuned in.
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Broadcasting from Brooklyn, Kimmel also marked its best Wednesday rating in the adults 18-49 demographic since October 24, 2007, with 985,000 tuning in. That was the best the show has done on any night in the demo since June 19, 2012, during the NBA Finals. Although scheduled to broadcast from NYC all week, Kimmel shut down Monday due to Hurricane Sandy. The show resumed Tuesday.
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If they had promoted it more I’m sure more people would’ve tuned in, because I had no idea he was going to be on Kimmel.
Why would more than that watch it.. It’s kimmel the useless late night host.
Why didn’t tell us. I am getting sick of Leno, He is always talkin about masterbation.
it was a painfully boring interview. without a real guest these 2 are sooooo awkward. the howard stern interview was way better one day earlier.
@David: ABC had promoted it pretty well last week before Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, and they had to call off Monday’s telecast much like The Daily Show/The Colbert Report postponed new shows until last night.
If the hurricane hadn’t caused so much havoc in the NYC metro area(warranting more news coverage), I’m sure that rating could have been bigger.