{"id":3266,"date":"2025-09-23T18:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clasicosnoticias.com.ar\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:37:03","slug":"kimmel-colbert-more-why-late-night-tv-chaos-is-worrying-the-music-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clasicosnoticias.com.ar\/?p=3266","title":{"rendered":"
Kimmel, Colbert & More: Why Late-Night TV Chaos Is Worrying the Music\u00a0Business<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tFor five days, singer Piya Malik believed her dance-pop trio Say She She was one of the final bands to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> So she was \u201celated\u201d when Walt Disney-owned ABC, in a reversal Monday (Sept. 22), announced it would restore the long-running show to the air. \u201cIt\u2019s a small win that we all needed right now,\u201d says Malik, whose late-night debut was Sept. 10, a week before ABC suspended Kimmel and his show. \u201cWhen we act together, we can protect free expression and hold these monopolies to account.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJimmy Kimmel Live! <\/em>won\u2019t return to full TV strength tonight: Nexstar, which operates 32 ABC affiliates, and Sinclair, which controls another 38 ABC stations, will broadcast news shows instead. And for artists who rely on late-night shows for promotional power, the whiplash of losing, then regaining, Kimmel <\/em>speaks to the fragility of the medium. \u201cThere are fewer platforms on TV that matter and that can move the needle,\u201d says veteran record exec Steve Greenberg<\/strong>, manager of AJR, a pop trio that performed on Kimmel <\/em>in July. \u201cThe few that exist are really important, and it\u2019d be a shame to lose any.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe most immediate reason for this fragility is that some late-night stars, namely Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Myers, are fiercely critical of the Trump Administration \u2014 and the president and some U.S. officials have responded by threatening to cancel them from the airwaves. The Kimmel brouhaha began when FCC chairman Brendan Carr criticized the host last week for his remarks about slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. \u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d Carr said. Shortly afterwards, Walt Disney, which owns ABC, pulled Kimmel\u2019s show from production. It was an echo of CBS\u2019s move in July, when it announced The Late Show with Stephen Colbert <\/em>would be canceled in May 2026, a decision unlikely to be reversed.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut late-night talk shows are in trouble for reasons beyond politics: After CBS\u2019s Colbert announcement, The Wall Street Journal <\/em>reported the show loses $40 million annually, and TV ad spending for the ABC, CBS and NBC late-night shows declined from $439 million in 2018 to $221 million last year. And while each series has a massive social media following, star-making events like Future Islands performing on a single late-night show, Late Show with David Letterman<\/em>, in 2014 are rare in today\u2019s TV landscape. Earlier this year, Elton John and Brandi Carlile\u2019s album Who Believes In Angels?<\/em> debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 only after the duo made the rounds to several morning and late-night shows. \u201cPeople are not watching television at the rate people are watching YouTube, Instagram and TikTok,\u201d says Adrian L. Miller<\/strong>, an artist manager who is working with singer Charlie Bereal and label Death Row Records. \u201cDiscovery starts on your phone now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, a Chartmetric analysis of 458 artist appearances on prominent TV shows, from Kimmel <\/em>and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon <\/em>to Ellen <\/em>and Saturday Night Live<\/em>, showed that featured artists\u2019 monthly Spotify streams increased just 1.78% after their respective performances. A few prominent ones, like Bartees Strange on Kimmel <\/em>in 2022, prompted greater increases, but 192 artists\u2019 streaming activity actually decreased <\/em>afterwards.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Ken Casey \u2014 frontman of Dropkick Murphys and an outspoken Trump critic who calls the president \u201ca little crybaby who can\u2019t take some criticism, so he has to get the shows canceled\u201d \u2014 the Kimmel <\/em>issue is about the future of the First Amendment and nothing else. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to even think about what\u2019s lost for a band\u2019s opportunities to perform \u2014 that seems so minuscule compared to the larger issue at hand, which is free speech.\u201d But Casey, whose band appeared on Kimmel <\/em>in 2004, acknowledges the dwindling talk show platform for musicians. \u201cYes, those opportunities have become fewer and farther between, even before politics,\u201d he says. \u201cNow they\u2019re even fewer. I feel like music always finds a way. The message always finds a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf late-night talk shows are heading for extinction \u2014 whether for the disturbing reason of presidents pressuring networks to shut off contrary voices, or the more mundane reason of audiences and advertising dollars drifting to streaming and social media \u2014 artists will lose more than performances before large TV audiences. Late-night shows have a history of taking chances on new artists, breaking once-unknown bands like Phoenix on Saturday Night Live <\/em>in 2009 and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon <\/em>in 2015. Today, artists like AJR use late-night appearances as one segment of a broader marketing campaign, sharing the official clips on social media and cutting them into pieces for TikTok.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat certainly helped us a lot,\u201d says Greenberg, also founder and CEO of indie label S-Curve. \u201cFans are pulling the performance and posting their own favorites on social media as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMajor late-night shows also give artists professionally-produced, well-lit, immaculately-recorded clips they frequently can\u2019t achieve elsewhere, including on their own tours. \u201cYou can do 250 shows a year and play for 5,000 [fans] a night and grind it out. When you play one of these [late night] shows and reach I-don\u2019t-know-how-many millions of viewers they have, it really hits the marker,\u201d says David Shaw, the Revivalists\u2019 frontman, who performed on Kimmel <\/em>in 2017 and calls ABC\u2019s initial cancellation \u201ctroubling.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t even think we should be talking about losing these shows. We\u2019ve got to make it not happen. If we even speak it into existence, it adds fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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