ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE Scores Huge Quarter Ratings

ABC's Jimmy Kimmel LIVE has scored its 2nd-Most-Watched Quarter in the 9-year history of the show. 

During the 4th Quarter 2011, the ABC late night talk show grew its overall audience over the year-ago quarter by 5% to deliver its most-watched quarter in 4 years - since 4Q 2007. In fact, this marked the show's 2nd-most-watched quarter in its nearly 9-year history (JKL premiered in January 2003). Growing year to year in Total Viewers (+5%) for the 7th quarter in a row, JKL delivered the largest yearly gains of any talk show in late-night (broadcast or cable).

Scoring double-digit gains over the prior quarter in Total Viewers (+19%) and Adults 18-49 (+17%), ABC's JKL grew its overall audience the most of any late-night talk show.

· ABC's JKL topped CBS' Ferguson during the quarter by its largest margin ever in Total Viewers (+15%), topping the CBS late-night program in 13 of the 14 weeks of the quarter. In addition, JKL beat Ferguson in Adults 18-49 (+7%) for the 7th consecutive quarter, leading the CBS program in 11 of the quarter's 14 weeks.

Emmy-winner Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel LIVE, the ABC Television Network's distinctive late-night talk show. Now in its ninth season and packed with hilarious comedy bits and a house band led by Kimmel's childhood best friend, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" -- recipient of the 2010 Clio Award for innovative media -- features a diverse lineup of guests that includes celebrities, athletes, musicians, comedians and humorous human interest subjects.

Each night Kimmel delivers up-to-the minute news on the hottest topics of the day in his monologue, applying his irreverent wit to politics, television, the media, the FCC, popular culture - everything is a target. A weekly comedy segment entitled "Unnecessary Censorship" pokes fun at the FCC's crackdown on the media by unnecessarily censoring clips from TV news, political speeches, reality TV and nature shows. Other regular comedy segments include Cousin Sal's hidden camera pranks, No. 1 Lindsay Lohan fan Jake Byrd's "man on the street," feisty Aunt Chippy on location, parking lot security guard Guillermo's signature theatrical spoofs, and adorably clueless Uncle Frank's insight on a whole variety of subjects.

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