Screw Variety. Even the LA Times manages to sort it out...
ABC moves Jimmy Kimmel to 11:35 p.m., adds 'Nightline' Friday run
By Scott Collins
August 21, 2012, 10:00 a.m.
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel is about to get a promotion — to 11:35 p.m.
Following a flurry of rumors, the network confirmed Tuesday that it will move
Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier by one half-hour, to 11:35, starting Jan. 8.
That will put it in direct competition with NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno
and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman for a three-way ratings brawl.
Nightline— the storied late-night news program that has survived attempts to
demote or kill it for years — will start at 12:35 a.m. and also, starting March
1, get a new prime time Friday newsmagazine.
The timing of the move may seem odd, given that Kimmel's hosting of the Emmy
Awards next month would have given ABC a natural promotional platform for the
switch.
However, ABC executives felt that a making a change during the busy
presidential election season — when stations rake in huge amounts from
political ads — would have been disruptive. Instead, the network will use Ryan
Seacrest's New Years program as well as Dancing With the Stars and the Bowl
Championship Series on sister network ESPN to tell viewers about the switch.
Kimmel has seen ratings improvement in recent months, while Leno in particular
has experienced a slump after NBC made a disastrous experiment with Conan
O'Brien in the Tonight slot. Tonight last week laid off some staffers and
Leno took a pay cut to prevent further departures.
Given the passionate fan base 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has built over the past
decade, and the show's ratings and creative momentum this season, the time is
right to make this move, Anne Sweeney, cochair of Disney Media Neworks and
president of the Disney/ABC Television Group, wrote in a statement.
--- On Tue, 8/21/12, satrn...@sbcglobal.net satrn...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
From: satrn...@sbcglobal.net satrn...@sbcglobal.net
Subject: [TVHEALTHWATCH] Goodbye, Nightline?
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 10:21 AM
No word yet ...
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' moves to 11:35 p.m.
ABC latenight talkshow ready to take on Leno, Letterman
By Stuart Levine
Jimmy Kimmel Live is ready to play with the big boys.
After being in the midnight timeslot since 2003, the ABC
latenight talkshow is shifting to 11:35 p.m. in January.
More to come. . .
Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.lev...@variety.com
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