Ratings Crash: ABC’s Nightmare After Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension
FREEZE FRAME.
He was supposed to be “too big to fail.” But the second ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air, the unthinkable happened — the audience vanished. Overnight, America’s most powerful network turned into a ghost town.
Prime-time numbers in freefall.
Advertisers furious.
Disney execs in panic mode.
And behind the cameras? A civil war tearing through ABC’s newsroom. Some insiders call it “the single biggest mistake in late-night history.” Others whisper it was never about ratings — but about politics.
Is this just a stumble… or the beginning of the end for ABC’s empire?