From TV Week:
Clearing Things Up at ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
March 29, 2009 8:00 PM

Another one of the late-night warriors is going high-def. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will begin broadcasting in HD on Tuesday, April 14, Blink has learned. It joins all of NBC’s late-night shows, as well as CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman,” in making the transition to digital broadcasting. “Kimmel’s” lead-in, the ABC News-produced “Nightline,” jumped to HD last year. ABC’s move leaves CBS’ “Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson” as the only network late-night show that has not announced plans to switch to high definition. Given the competitive late-night landscape, as well as TV’s overall trend toward embracing HD, Mr. Ferguson likely will be making the transition eventually. Most of ABC’s primetime broadcasts are now in HD, as are news shows such as “Good Morning, America” and “20/20” and the daytime talk show “The View.”

—Josef Adalian

Sweet! I'll check this out.

Oh please Jimmy, please don't have Guillermo or Uncle Frank shirtless on the show's high-def premiere! You're trying to get viewers, not send them running for the hills in shrieking horror! And no close-ups of Aunt Chipie while you're at it. :p

One problem, NBC's late night lineup is NOT all HD. Last Call is SDTV. Lately it has been shown 16:9 letterbox, even on the NBC HD channel. Only Jay and Jimmy F. are HD.

I think it's hilarious that, in the spur of writing his blog post, the TV Week writer didn't even thought of or included "Last Call" in his mental process of sorting out the late night talkers' HD status. Technically the poker show that follows Carson Daly at 2:05AM is also part of NBC late night and still in SD. Realistically though when people think of NBC late night their thought process stops at Jimmy Fallon (if they even include him at all; for most people Leno IS NBC late night).

NBC's website continues to list Carson Daly's show as HD even though its not.

I think it's hilarious that, in the spur of writing his blog post, the TV Week writer didn't even thought of or included "Last Call" in his mental process of sorting out the late night talkers' HD status. Technically the poker show that follows Carson Daly at 2:05AM is also part of NBC late night and still in SD. Realistically though when people think of NBC late night their thought process stops at Jimmy Fallon (if they even include him at all; for most people Leno IS NBC late night).

I think that's it. Carson and that poker show are so obscure, even an entertainment writer forgets that they exist in 'late night'! ;) :D:D:D

I miss the 2:05 Leno replay. At least that was an extra hour of HD each day.

I think that's it. Carson and that poker show are so obscure, even an entertainment writer forgets that they exist in 'late night'! ;) :D:D:D

I miss the 2:05 Leno replay. At least that was an extra hour of HD each day.

The Tonight Show replay still occurs an hour later at 3:00am. But we did lose the Late Night replay that used to run at 3:00am.

Finally ABC, I guess the pressure of Jay and Conan got to them... They had to do something to improve JKL, HD is a start LOL

Finally ABC, I guess the pressure of Jay and Conan got to them... They had to do something to improve JKL, HD is a start LOL

Well not everyone can be as hilarious as Leno.

This is good news,jimmy is great however those cheap sears suits he wears will look even worse,somebody needs to hook this guy up real bad LOL !!!!

What's the point of Kimmel in HD? His idea of comedy is showing low-res crap he pulled off of YouTube.

Michelle Rodriguez, and her dress, would have been much more appreciated on last night's show if aired in HD.

What's the point of Kimmel in HD? His idea of comedy is showing low-res crap he pulled off of YouTube.

10,000 times better than Leno's corny monologue.

10,000 times better than Leno's corny monologue.

And Letterman's "I'm so bitter" monologue.

Not as good as Ferguson's monologues!

But vastly superior to Fallon's dead-on-arrival monologues ('Slow Jamming the News' notwithstanding).

The first time I sat through Fallon's monologue I had a face like the people on The Ring after they watched the tape.
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They made fun of Jimmy Kimmel in HD on South Park before he went HD.

I'm not sure what night the HD starts, the Monday night (early Tuesday) or the Tuesday night (early Wednesday)?

I checked my IPG on my TWC box and the Tuesday night edition is marked as NEW with the latest DWTS castoff appearing. The Monday night edition appears to be a rerun.

What is his schedule, officially?

They made fun of Jimmy Kimmel in HD on South Park before he went HD.What did they make fun of?

His blatant, sickening kissing up to the guests? His penchant for having on boring, uneducated, illiterate musical artists? His nepotism? His obnoxiously untalented girlfriend? His slurry, spitting speech and slightly-crossed eyes? His paunch?

Just wondering, because I really think he and his show are just absolutely perfect. ;)

(Actually I don't dislike the guy, and I'm just having fun. The only thing that stops me from watching his show sometimes are the "boring, illiterate guests". I do like the "Cousin Jimmy" skits a lot, though.)

I'm not sure what night the HD starts, the Monday night (early Tuesday) or the Tuesday night (early Wednesday)?

I checked my IPG on my TWC box and the Tuesday night edition is marked as NEW with the latest DWTS castoff appearing. The Monday night edition appears to be a rerun.

What is his schedule, officially?Tonight is the night.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (http://abc.go.com/latenight/jimmykimmel/index?pn=index)

Thanks for bumping the thread, I forgot.
Will DVR it and watch it tomorrow.

His obnoxiously untalented girlfriend?

Actually, they broke up. Again.

Actually, they broke up. Again.I guess he still couldn't further her career any, no matter how hard he tried.

Explains why he hasn't had her on once every two weeks, anyway.

I guess he still couldn't further her career any, no matter how hard he tried.

Explains why he hasn't had her on once every two weeks, anyway.

Always a kind word from you.

Always a kind word from you.Oh, I'm sorry. Perhaps I should be nicer to her. Have you ever heard her act?

Tonight's HD premier guests:

Actor Jorge Garcia (LOST), latest Dancing with the Stars castoff, musical guest Mims.

What a train wreck of a cold open? Is the show normally that stupid?

Up in HD without a glitch.

No HD Jimmy in Savannah, GA, yet we had Nightline in HD, on WJCL22 via Comcast. This station never gets anything right!

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In HD on WABC. WABC used to air the show from an up convert of their SD feed so this is a big improvement.
I don't know if it's because of WABC's two sub channels or the dark lighting but the main camera shot for the monologue is a bit noisy.

haha, I loved the technical joke about going from 480 to 720 lines of resolution, where Jimmy morphs into John Stamos!

Up without a glitch in Detroit. I can't say I'm a huge fan of JKL, but the show does look excellent in HD. Richer colors and contrast than Leno or Letterman. And you gotta admit, the John Stamos joke was pretty funny.

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Obligatory HD joke - 'The reason we had to wait so long to go HD was because of the new microwave in the lunch room....'

Then, although the show started in HD, Kimmel does an HD countdown, and when zero is reached, John Stamos 'appears', replacing Kimmel, dressed in identical suit, shirt & tie, and proclaims HD means handsome devil.

Audio is 2.0, in Detroit flagged for 5.1.

HD in Savannah now, looks pretty good.

It's not as much as GMA and The View but I notice some filtering on the close up of Jimmy.
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I see ABC still has their bug in the wrong spot. On my SDTVs, Jimmy Kimmel is now on the "ab" network! ;)

not in HD in nashville, TN.

Still SD on WCHS, Charleston, WV as expected. They delay the show to 1:05 so they can squeeze in an hour of infomercials at 12, and they still can't record and rebroadcast in HD. Do many other ABC affiliates do this? Maybe it's a Sinclair thing.

HD on WMAR. My Comcast DVR recording was "interrupted" twice and the recording is in three pieces.

For ABC, CBS and NBC some stations not owned by the networks delay the second of the late night shows for local programming.

They wound up stretching the opening montage. Wonder if there are plans for it to be redone.

I wasn't too impressed -- rather soft all the way around. Commercials looked much sharper than show. Also, the audio is clipped. KXTV OTA as well as KGO via D*.

Didn't look that good here, either. Maybe its because there are two ABC subchannels.

I would even go so far as to say it looked better in SD here. I know that may sound hard to believe, but the SD PQ was very sharp and clean. There was a lot of noticable mosquito noise around the faces that wasn't there in SD, therefore they didn't look as clean. The bodies and everything else were fuzzier, too.

Very soft and lacking in detail, too, for supposed HD. Looked like lower-rez Dish HD or something. If I really cared that much I'd be pretty disappointed. Letterman and Leno (and that other, what's-his-name guy) look much better here.

^^ I agree with everything you said there. The amount of mosquito noise was quite heavy. I don't think it's a subchannel issue though, as it looked fine when the breaks came on (during HD spots anyway).

compared to Leno it looks like Kimmels show is shot in a cave.

compared to Leno it looks like Kimmels show is shot in a cave.

A lot of it could be due to the lighting. It seems they didn't change the lighting that much compared to before.

It wasn't in HD on KVUE in Austin, TX. It is tape-delayed to 12 central time here, so I don't know if that has something to do with it. They do have syndicated HD shows, though.

I'm inspecting it closely now.

It looks a little bit sharper tonight, and the mosquito noise seems to be less, but it's still there and looks a little fuzzy. Maybe they've done some tweaking.

I think the lack of detail is basically due to the low lighting, though. I'm betting that it would look a bit better overall if they'd just raise the lighting some.

compared to Leno it looks like Kimmels show is shot in a cave.

Agree. If ABC took the time to replace the background behind the band so it would stand out more in HD (which it does) then surely a new lighting scheme for the studio when Kimmel does the monologue is in order. With his dark suits Jimmel blends too much into his darkened background and pretty much disappears. Never been an issue I noticed in SD, but after two nights in HD is the one thing that sticks out like sore thumb.

Well, I found out why it doesn't look that great - WLS-DT here in Chicago, which had 2 480i subchannels to go along with their main, 720p one, just made their .2 channel 720p, also :eek: - right at the exact, same time Kimmel started in HD. :(:mad:

This truly is the beginning of the end of OTA HD quality, folks.

I think that's it. Carson and that poker show are so obscure, even an entertainment writer forgets that they exist in 'late night'! ;) :D:D:D

I miss the 2:05 Leno replay. At least that was an extra hour of HD each day.

Leno replay was in SD for quite a while despite the first run in HD.

A lot of it could be due to the lighting. It seems they didn't change the lighting that much compared to before.Undoubtedly, lighting is hugely important. For example, this year's Oscars (which I felt were poorly lit) looked awful compared to last year's, and both were in 720p HD on the same ABC. So yes, lighting can make a gigantic difference.

But, dare I say it, might the fact that this is the one late night studio/talk show that's in 720p also be relevant?

The other "live" shows (Leno, Conan, Fallon, Letterman, SNL) are all 1080i. They all look tremendous (well, maybe not Fallon so much yet), and Conan was a reasonably dark setting. SNL is just brilliant... lighting, and 1080i.

In my opinion, Leno and SNL are the most stunning: combination of brilliant lighting and 1080i.

I gave Kimmel a few minutes the other night, and was not impressed with the picture quality. Absolutely they need to light up the place better and change the whole color scheme for HD.

I think Kimmel's PQ could improve, but IMO it's alot better than the SD days. CBS has become both the morning news and late night HD lagger behind NBC and ABC.

SD last night in Washington (WJLA).

Because it was a rerun from the before HD era aka 2 weeks ago.

One new week in HD and already repeats! Thanks

He always has a repeat on Mondays. Today is new.

tuned into this tonight for the first time in a few weeks...saw jimmy giggling like an idiot, then fencing with jerry o'connell. turned away for a few minutes and came back to what might be the worst band ive ever heard, chester french.

seriously how these yo yos got themselves on tv blows my mind...i was convinced it was a joke but apparently theyre a real band and theyre signed to star trak, pharrell from the neptunes' label..

i shouldnt be surprised really...4th rate band playing a 4th rate song on a 4th rate show

they seem to have sorted out the camera issues. while things are still a little soft and muted (and the colour palette is still super bland) at least things dont look like theyre soaked in molasses like they used to be. theres also a load of material in the surrounds. i think its one of the most aggressive "crowd noise"-heavy mixes out of any of the late night talk shows

No no no no.....that's Jimmy FALLON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the Jimmy KIMMEL thread. And I watched that and I thought Jerry O'Connell was actually really funny and so was the fencing display. Fallon isn't bad as long as you don't try to watch the monologue.

hahaha i just searched jimmy and clicked...whoops!

jimmy kimmel=funny
jimmy fallon=not

i think its one of the most aggressive "crowd noise"-heavy mixes out of any of the late night talk showsThat's to try and influence the audience into thinking that the show and the material's better and funnier than it actually is.

If you missed tonight's "JKL!" you missed a classic: Jay Leno guest-hosted the hour (his band played a riff behind every... single... joke):

http://tvtattle.com/images/kimmel.leno.conan2.jpg

Yep, that's Chevy Chase as Conan! :D

If you missed tonight's "JKL!" you missed a classic: Jay Leno guest-hosted the hour (his band played a riff behind every... single... joke)

I missed the beginning, what was the reason for Kimmel to be Leno?

Dammit, I missed it. I was busy watching Conan. When does ABC replay JKL?

I missed the beginning, what was the reason for Kimmel to be Leno?It was basically a 'F*** You' to NBC and Leno for the way Conan was being treated when it became clear Conan would lose his show (the statement by O'Brien pretty much signals this). Between Kimmel, Lopez, Letterman, Ferguson and Conan (Fallon is still too green and sweet to s*** where he eats, plus he had Ringo Starr last night) the brotherhood of late night hosts both (a) showed solidarity with their fellow comic's woes (Conan) and (b) bloodied Leno a little hoping he's damaged goods by the time he returns to "Tonight Show" in March. The Kimmel parody was more than just a joke though, it was a dissection and thorough exposure of just how lame and limited Leno's comedy range is on a nightly bases. Bandleader Cleto's take on Kevin Eubanks alone was worth staying up late last night and yes, ABC will repeat this pretty soon (my guess is next or the following Monday). :)

I missed the beginning, what was the reason for Kimmel to be Leno?

leno is being skewered by everyone.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2010/01/jimmy-kimmel-dresses-up-as-leno----for-an-entire-show/1

Kimmel is a very funny comedian. He would make a better host of the Tonight Show than Conan.

Does anyone remember the "I'm F***ING MATT DAMON" song? Then he one-upped himself and got Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford to sing "I'm F***ING BEN AFFLECK".

Kimmel was funny back when he was on FOX doing the NFL show. Great comedian.

Dammit, I missed it. I was busy watching Conan. When does ABC replay JKL?

you can watch on hulu. I plan on doing so when I get home, this sounds absolutely hilarious.

It was basically a 'F*** You' to NBC and Leno for the way Conan was being treated when it became clear Conan would lose his show (the statement by O'Brien pretty much signals this). Between Kimmel, Lopez, Letterman, Ferguson and Conan (Fallon is still too green and sweet to s*** where he eats, plus he had Ringo Starr last night) the brotherhood of late night hosts both (a) showed solidarity with their fellow comic's woes (Conan) and (b) bloodied Leno a little hoping he's damaged goods by the time he returns to "Tonight Show" in March. The Kimmel parody was more than just a joke though, it was a dissection and thorough exposure of just how lame and limited Leno's comedy range is on a nightly bases. Bandleader Cleto's take on Kevin Eubanks alone was worth staying up late last night and yes, ABC will repeat this pretty soon (my guess is next or the following Monday). :)

Thanks.

Wow.

If you didn't just see it, you'll hear about it tomorrow. Kimmel's Oscar night show had a skit about the 'Handsome Club'. Hilarious.

Wow.

If you didn't just see it, you'll hear about it tomorrow. Kimmel's Oscar night show had a skit about the 'Handsome Club'. Hilarious.

Probably one of the most funny late-night skits since Carson.

Simple brilliant.

Probably one of the most funny late-night skits since Carson.

Simple brilliant.

Agree.

The talent alone was staggering.

Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Sting
Tony Romo
John Krasinski
Lenny Kravitz
Patrick Dempsey
and a few more I can't remember or didn't know.

Kimmel is most certainly not HD in my market, it's fair SD at that. I saw a reference earlier in the thread about some non-O&O stations(Hubbard in my area) tape delaying the broadcast and therefor it might not be in HD. My question is, is their a listing somewhere of what markets actually broadcast a particular show in HD?
What's odd to me is my local channel (KSTP) has recently upgraded it's local newscasts to HD, which tells me that have the capability to store and rebroadcast HD, and yet the Kimmel show is in SD:(
I have the capability of time delaying my HD and keeping it HD(with my Tivo HD) is it so hard for a major network to have something similar as a $200 Tivo or a $500 HTPC with a capture card? Yes I know the Tivo only has RF input which wouldn't work for a network station, that's why I mentioned a PC and card with maybe component inputs.

My question is, is their a listing somewhere of what markets actually broadcast a particular show in HD?Not really.

What's odd to me is my local channel (KSTP) has recently upgraded it's local newscasts to HD, which tells me that have the capability to store and rebroadcast HD, and yet the Kimmel show is in SD:(Just because they can do local news in HD doesn't mean they can time shift network programs in HD.

I have the capability of time delaying my HD and keeping it HD(with my Tivo HD) is it so hard for a major network to have something similar as a $200 Tivo or a $500 HTPC with a capture card?Not hard, just very expensive. Last time I heard it was into 5 figures.

Why not call the station manager and see what's up?

Why not call the station manager and see what's up?

I have a phone number for a engineer at KSTP, I'll have to find it and give him a call next week. He used to occasionally post on our hometown forum before it went black, a nice guy really. Hopefully he'll have an answer.
My Tivo HD picks up quite a bit from Kimmel and it would sure be nice if it were in HD.

Not really.
Just because they can do local news in HD doesn't mean they can time shift network programs in HD.
Not hard, just very expensive. Last time I heard it was into 5 figures.

So why can't the station use a home unit?
So why can't a manufacture build a budget unit using home unit technology?
So why can't the station re-record it using widescreen SD? The SD sports programs from Europe look pretty good.

So why can't the station use a home unit?
So why can't a manufacture build a budget unit using home unit technology?


This question comes up quite often. The reasons are many, the first being that the home units are usually just taking an already compressed stream and depositing it on a hard drive -- the only real hardware in the box is a decoder for playback, which is not very demanding or expensive. In the broadcast environment, most everything is passed around in uncompressed form, so in order to record a network feed, you need to take the 1.4 Gbps data stream from the receiver and then pass that through to a server that can accept it.

Once you have it on the server, you need a way to play it back to air -- that means you need a way to control the box frame-accurately via automation, and the box also needs to be able to genlock to the station's reference. You are not going to find this on a TiVo. :D Oh, and since a station needs redundancy, they need to have two systems playing back in tandem (unless they are willing to have no programming).

Here is an example of something that will do the job nicely ... but it is not cheap (be sure to check out the pictures of the back panel):

http://www.grassvalley.com/products/k2_media_client

Nope that doesn't look like the back of my Tivo at all:D
To a laymen what we want sounds rather easy, but of course it's never that easy:o Thanks for the link.

Great PQ on tonights episode. :D

Obituary
Jimmy Kimmel Live's Uncle Frank Dead at 77
By Marianne Garvey, Eonline.com - August 23rd, 2011

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RIP Uncle Frank.

Jimmy Kimmel's lovable uncle Frank Potenza, who was both a security guard and hysterical sidekick for Jimmy Kimmel Live! died earlier today a spokesperson for the show confirms to E! News. Details on his death weren't made immediately clear.

How is the show's staff handling the loss?

A spokesperson for the talk show told E! News they are mourning the loss of Frank and talked about how he got his start on the show from his famous nephew.

"It is with great sadness that the staff and crew of Jimmy Kimmel Live! mourn the loss of Uncle Frank Potenza," a rep for the show said. "[Uncle Frank] was a veteran of the Korean War who worked 20 years as a New York City police officer, 20 years as a security guard at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and five years in secuirty at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York."

VIDEO: Check out Uncle Frank in action (http://youtu.be/BP-_kUZeh3g).

It was in 2003 that Uncle Frank would become famous, after Kimmel asked him to move to Los Angeles to join his talk show that was about to start. He would be a security guard/show contributor.

The gig worked, and Frank went on to have a nine-year run, pairing up with Guillermo Rodriguez, a real-life parking lot security guard for the show.

"He was beloved by his coworkers and considered an uncle to all," said the show's spokesperson. "His kindness and humor will be missed by everyone he touched."

Kimmel has been retweeting kind tweets about his uncle, and wrote on Twitter himself today: "thank you fo ryour kind words about a very kind man- my UNcle Frank- who passed away this morning."

Kimmel's ex-girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, also tweeted about the hilarious Frank, saying: "RIP the beloved Uncle Frank. NYC cop, security guard, father to 3, husband to 1 & Uncle to everyone."

Uncle Frank is survived by his three daughters and newborn granddaughter, Franki.

http://www.eonline.com/news/jimmy_kimmel_lives_uncle_frank_dead_77/259728

The last time I watched (a few months back), Frank was sitting on some type of motorized-chair. It was clear he was ill, but I had no idea just how much. R.I.P