Jason Kelce Gets Disappointing News on ESPN’s Late-Night Show

    Jason Kelce red-faced as new TV show gets off to embarrassing start

    Former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce kicked off his first year of retirement with a bang. In addition to joining “Monday Night Countdown” as an analyst, the future Hall of Famer and his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, signed a deal with Amazon’s Wondery worth over $100 million for their podcast, “New Heights.”

    As for Kelce’s wife, who’s pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, she launched “Not Gonna Lie With Kylie Kelce,” which reached the No. 1 spot on both Spotify and Apple podcast charts following its premiere, bumping Joe Rogan’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” to second place.

     

     

    While it seems like everything the Kelces touch turns into gold, the same can’t be said about “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce,” which premiered on ESPN on Jan. 4.

    Puck’s John Ourand posted on X on Jan. 6, “I’ve seen the numbers for ESPN’s first episode of “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce,” and they’re not particularly good: 290,000 viewers.” “Comps are tough,” Ourand continued.

     

     

    “Two weeks ago, that time slot had more than 700,000 viewers. But that figure was inflated by the Indiana-Notre Dame playoff game earlier in the night. Same time period last January averaged 436,000. “From ESPN’s perspective, viewership numbers from a late-night talk show that has a five-episode run don’t matter nearly as much as other aspects of this programming deal. ESPN is happy to be in business with Jason Kelce, regardless.”

    The premiere of Kelce’s late-night show aired after the Baltimore Ravens crushed the Pittsburgh Steelers 35-10 on Saturday night in Week 18. Perhaps, if the game was more competitive, more viewers would’ve stuck around.

     

     

    The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Weprin posted of Kelce’s viewership numbers, “IMO their strategy of streaming it on YouTube (which they just dont do for other shows) was an acknowledgement that it was not a show for cable subscribers likely to be awake at 1 AM, and were maybe hoping it would click with the younger cord-cutter crowd.”

    Maybe the show, which tapes in front of a live audience in Philadelphia, can draw a bigger audience duringWild Card Weekend.

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