Are you sure? I was pretty certain they did as that episode was usually a clip show.

Well they already said Tokkyuger will be Feb 16th.

Yeah, there hasn't actually been an episode aired on the final week of the new year since...Abaranger? Somewhere around then. It'll be pretty unlikely that Kyoryuger gets that extra episode. You can blame the airing of Super Hero Taisen for this one.

I saw somewhere that it was confirmed at 49 episodes. I'd love to provide a link but I can't remember exactly.

It seems to be that sentai is getting shorter each year, to close the gap caused by a certain short lived show in the programming block a few years ago perhaps? Pretty ironic then that Saban is getting further and further behind. Guess it gives them more chance to think about how to adapt this lot... uh... yeah...

Uh... no.

Shinkenger was 49 episodes
Goseiger was 50 episodes
Gokaiger was 51 episodes
Go-Buster was 50 episodes

So far, excluding JakQ, there hasn't been a series with 48 episodes since CarRanger. CarRanger and OhRanger was the only time two series in a row came out with less than 49 episodes. And then Magi-Geki were the only series to come out in a row with 49 episodes afterwards.

Series' final episode count usually seems to be based on how many breaks the show had to take during its run, not how popular the show is or is not. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Gaim only ended up being 48 episodes because it started later.