Why is Jimmy Kimmel a repeat every Thursday?

Here it is a Wednesday night and the Kimmel show is another repeat. I was adding the punchlines to the jokes in the monolouge. Here's the deal, this happens way too much and I quickly find other shows to watch. Now I assume all the Jimmy Kimmel shows are reruns and I won't watch any time soon.

Taping Friday's show on Thursday? Wait a minute. I thought the show was called Jimmie Kimmel Live! Whas up whit dat?

i'm pretty sure kimmel tapes friday's show on thursday night. instead of taping two shows in one night (like letterman does on mondays), they tape only one and show a repeat that night.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the older programs were not broadcast in hi-def?

I think this practice is annoying also. All the late night shows do it. I think Jay has other gigs he does. I much prefer how Johnny used to do it- guest hosts.

Egos are too big for this nowadays.

On the same topic the whole mix of new/rerun for network shows is also annoying.

These late night shows air recent repeats on purpose. They are afraid that if they air an episode too out of date, people will flip to another channel and maybe find a show on opposite they like even more. as long as the repeat still has some relevancy (ie one of the guest's movies is still big at the box office) viewers will still be interested.

I can't comment on the wisdom of it. personally, I think it would be interesting to see some "classic" installements, but maybe I'm a rare bird in that regard.