Despite not airing in about 23 percent of the country’s TV homes — due to blackouts at 66 ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar and Sinclair — Tuesday’s episode drew 6.26 million viewers, based on preliminary Nielsen figures. That’s the largest tune-in (save for a couple of special episodes) in Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s 22-year history and more than three times higher than the show’s average for the second quarter of 2025, before Kimmel’s annual summer break when guest hosts fill in for him.
Tuesday’s installment also drew a 0.87 rating among adults 18-49 (equivalent to about 1.18 million viewers in that age group), its best mark for a regularly scheduled episode in more than a decade (since March 2015). The Nielsen numbers do not include the “big data…
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