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Ryan Coleman / Entertainment Weekly:
Hulu faced technical difficulties during its live airing of the Oscars; in the Oscars' first hour, 34K+ users told Down Detector that the service wasn't working — More than 34,000 users reported the streaming site was down within the ceremony's first hour.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: the Academy has talked informally with Netflix and others about airing the Oscars in future years; its exclusive negotiating window with Disney lapsed — The audience for the Oscars has declined more than 50% over the last decade. Will that lead to a break-up with its home of more than 50 years?
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Hulu cut its live stream before the Oscars ended, falsely stating “the live event has now ended” while Best Actress and Best Picture were still to come
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
No Other Land, about Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, won Best Documentary at the 2025 Oscars, a rebuke after no distributor picked it up in the US — In their acceptance speeches, the Israeli and Palestinian co-directors called for “serious actions to stop the injustice.”
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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Patrick Soon-Shiong says LAT opinion pieces will show an AI-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views — Los Angeles paper's ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner
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Wall Street Journal:
MLB plans a TV model where teams cede local rights to MLB for a unified streaming package; teams get ~25% of revenue from local media, the most of any US sport — The big sports network is walking away from the national pastime, accelerating baseball's need to cope with the demise of the TV economy that fueled its growth for decades.
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Source: Fubo is readying a Sports & Broadcasting Package that is expected to launch before the start of the NFL's 2025 season, for $50 to $60 per month — Streaming cable television alternative Fubo is readying a new programming package that will offer broadcast channels …
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Jamie Heller / Business Insider:
Business Insider hires former Daily Beast EIC Tracy Connor as the outlet's new standards editor — I'm thrilled to share that Tracy Connor has joined Business Insider as Standards Editor. — In this critical role, Tracy will work with our journalists on questions during the reporting process …
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Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Independent films triumphed over more popular titles at the 97th Academy Awards, with Neon's Anora claiming five Oscars and A24's The Brutalist winning three — The 97th Academy Awards marked a celebration of independent film, with Neon's “Anora” claiming five Oscars, including for best film, lead actress and director.
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: YouTube is preparing a Netflix-like redesign of its TV app, with paid content from other streamers like Max and Paramount+ on the homepage — It should have been easy. — YouTube in late 2022 began including in its app video-streaming services operated by other media companies …
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Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Letters: Google, Amazon, and other ad companies respond to US senators' inquiries about ad placement on pages with CSAM, saying they blocked the sites and more — Amazon has issued refunds to affected advertisers — Under pressure from bipartisan lawmakers, Google, Amazon …
Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
How FCC Chair Brendan Carr was cleared by ethics officials to write a chapter for the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 when he was a commissioner — Dozens of pages of emails reveal how Brendan Carr, the FCC's Republican chairman and close confidante of President Trump …
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Ben Mankiewicz / CBS News:
Interviews with Ted Sarandos, Sony's Tom Rothman, and Nancy Meyers on how movies have changed in the era of streaming — Hollywood has been re-inventing itself for more 100 years. Change is part of the culture. But a pocket-sized “Sunset Boulevard”? That's not a close-up!
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