The Oscars Moving to YouTube Beginning in 2029, Will Stream Free Worldwide
The Oscars will air on YouTube starting in 2029.
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A loss for Network TV and one more advantage for the cord-cutters.
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The Oscars Moving to YouTube Beginning in 2029, Will Stream Free Worldwide
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A loss for Network TV and one more advantage for the cord-cutters.
If youtube has the $ for the Oscars, do they have the $ for a 4X late night show from a Broadway Theater? Could they buy the ES Theater from CBS/Paramount/Skydance?
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it will still be on OTA until then, and maybe political pressure will force them to sublease it to an OTA network
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The Oscars is another legacy event to fall. I'm thinking within 10 years the Superbowl will exclusively be on some type of streaming platform.
The Oscars is another legacy event to fall. I'm thinking within 10 years the Superbowl will exclusively be on some type of streaming platform.
This makes streaming seem very cheap and mediocre to me.
The content is decent I suppose (I wouldn't know, because other than YouTube, I don't stream much; linear offers everything I need), but the ads are a whole new level of annoying (the traditional linear TV ads aren't much better, but at least in some cases, some genuine thought goes into their production; internet streaming ads seem to be nothing but some influencer hawking this or that, or something akin to what that anonymous someone posted.
When push comes to shove, I really don't see much of a difference between on demand streaming and linear anymore. And, when you consider that to gain access to everything that might be of interest – with limited ads – one has to pay $5.99/mo here and $14.99/mo there. It adds up almost to the same cost as lower-end linear over cable or satellite packages!
About the only way to get genuinely free TV is OTA, but they're trying to do away with that now, too, with all that ATSC 3.0 DRM junk.
Someone please tell me I'm wrong about any of this!
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Yeah. Ad-free is the way to go. If it's ten bucks a month more than with ads, that's 33 cents a day.
Before I retired, I had most of the major streamers (Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, Peacock and Paramount Plus) all at once and that was expensive.
Finally acknowledging I'm an old man on a fixed income (I've been waiting to use that line), I decided to rotate wherever possible---wait until a service had at least two new seasons of shows we were interested in, and then jump in, watch those, cancel and move on to the next one. The schedules are staggered just enough for that to work, for the most part, though this first couple months of the year seems loaded with the good stuff..
Jeff Bezos solved one of my problems---I'm not spending a dime with any of his properties (Amazon, Whole Foods, Washington Post) until someone else owns them.
Ditto with the Ellisons and Paramount+.
Peacock only ever had two shows I cared about---Girls5Eva, which moved to Netflix and then was cancelled, and Poker Face, which was brilliant in season one and fell off a cliff in season two.
So there's three I don't have to worry about.
HBO Max is my one constant subscription---for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. We've also been re-watching The West Wing, and The Pitt has begun its second season, so we're getting our money's worth there. Hacks returns for its fifth and final season this year, a new Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Shrinking) project called Rooster with Steve Carrell and John McGinley is coming this year, and Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini and David Harbour are in DTF St. Louis, and I'm interested just based on the synopsis: “A limited series about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-aged malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.” Bateman was brilliant in Ozark and Cardellini was terrific in Dead to Me, so I have some expectations. And eventually, The White Lotus will return, so....
I have the Disney+/Hulu/HBO Max ad-free bundle for $32.99, so that's pretty cost-effective. Since the end of What We Do in the Shadows, Hulu has been appealing to us primarily for Only Murders in the Building, but the Scrubs reboot for ABC will stream ad-free on Hulu and there are supposedly some David E. Kelley projects in the pipeline, including a third season of Big Little Lies. And Disney+ is always good to have on hand if the grandkids are in town.
Netflix lured me back early in for the fifth season of Emily in Paris (easily the weakest, but there's always the scenery), the second season of Ted Danson's A Man on the Inside (also a little disappointing this time), and the home-run Nobody Wants This, which already has two seasons that we somehow snoozed on. There will be a season 3 later this year. And The Lincoln Lawyer returns in early February. Lupin (a brilliant French story about a master thief, shot entirely in Paris) is coming back too. Ad-free is $17.99.
Apple TV is one I would have held off until this year when season 3 of Shrinking arrives (January 28), but Pluribus was so clearly a must-see-when-it-drops that we came back early---and along the way discovered Sugar. There's enough high-quality stuff most of the year on Apple (The Morning Show, Your Friends and Neighbors, Ted Lasso, The Studio, Bad Monkey, Presumed Innocent) that I may just let it continue to renew---in a bundle with Apple Music, it's ten additional dollars.
So, yeah---I've gotten a little indulgent...and I'm spending $60.98 a month on streaming. If I wanted to exercise some discipline, I could cut that in half and still have either Disney, Hulu and HBO Max all together or Netflix plus Apple.
Realistically, given how economical the bundle is for Apple, I'll probably keep that and cycle in and out of Netflix going forward.
Before I retired, I had most of the major streamers (Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, Peacock and Paramount Plus) all at once and that was expensive.
Finally acknowledging I'm an old man on a fixed income (I've been waiting to use that line), I decided to rotate wherever possible---wait until a service had at least two new seasons of shows we were interested in, and then jump in, watch those, cancel and move on to the next one. The schedules are staggered just enough for that to work, for the most part, though this first couple months of the year seems loaded with the good stuff..
Jeff Bezos solved one of my problems---I'm not spending a dime with any of his properties (Amazon, Whole Foods, Washington Post) until someone else owns them.
Ditto with the Ellisons and Paramount+.
Peacock only ever had two shows I cared about---Girls5Eva, which moved to Netflix and then was cancelled, and Poker Face, which was brilliant in season one and fell off a cliff in season two.
So there's three I don't have to worry about.
HBO Max is my one constant subscription---for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. We've also been re-watching The West Wing, and The Pitt has begun its second season, so we're getting our money's worth there. Hacks returns for its fifth and final season this year, a new Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Shrinking) project called Rooster with Steve Carrell and John McGinley is coming this year, and Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini and David Harbour are in DTF St. Louis, and I'm interested just based on the synopsis: “A limited series about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-aged malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.” Bateman was brilliant in Ozark and Cardellini was terrific in Dead to Me, so I have some expectations. And eventually, The White Lotus will return, so....
I have the Disney+/Hulu/HBO Max ad-free bundle for $32.99, so that's pretty cost-effective. Since the end of What We Do in the Shadows, Hulu has been appealing to us primarily for Only Murders in the Building, but the Scrubs reboot for ABC will stream ad-free on Hulu and there are supposedly some David E. Kelley projects in the pipeline, including a third season of Big Little Lies. And Disney+ is always good to have on hand if the grandkids are in town.
Netflix lured me back early in for the fifth season of Emily in Paris (easily the weakest, but there's always the scenery), the second season of Ted Danson's A Man on the Inside (also a little disappointing this time), and the home-run Nobody Wants This, which already has two seasons that we somehow snoozed on. There will be a season 3 later this year. And The Lincoln Lawyer returns in early February. Lupin (a brilliant French story about a master thief, shot entirely in Paris) is coming back too. Ad-free is $17.99.
Apple TV is one I would have held off until this year when season 3 of Shrinking arrives (January 28), but Pluribus was so clearly a must-see-when-it-drops that we came back early---and along the way discovered Sugar. There's enough high-quality stuff most of the year on Apple (The Morning Show, Your Friends and Neighbors, Ted Lasso, The Studio, Bad Monkey, Presumed Innocent) that I may just let it continue to renew---in a bundle with Apple Music, it's ten additional dollars.
So, yeah---I've gotten a little indulgent...and I'm spending $60.98 a month on streaming. If I wanted to exercise some discipline, I could cut that in half and still have either Disney, Hulu and HBO Max all together or Netflix plus Apple.
Realistically, given how economical the bundle is for Apple, I'll probably keep that and cycle in and out of Netflix going forward.
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I've cycled in and out of Netflix too. Apple TV has some free full episodes to entice people to sign up for Apple TV Plus, which I think is something that sets them apart from other streaming services.
Netflix hasn't really come up with a logical replacement for The Crown, and their strategy of dropping all episodes of a season at once can backfire on them. Season 2 of The Diplomat was like an I-can't-put-it-down novel---my wife and I blew through all six episodes in a weekend.
Do you ever watch Netflix original movies? The only good one I’ve seen was Happy Gilmore 2, starring Adam Sandler and half his family.
We watched Jay Kelly (Sandler with George Clooney) a few weeks ago. Just tremendous. I want to watch the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up, Dead Man, but there hasn't been an evening yet where I felt like committing for 2 and a half hours. We will eventually. I wanted to watch both of those in a theater, but the holidays got in the way.
Anything beyond that, I'd have to look up---I'm sure there have been some, but nothing that pops to mind as being a Netflix original.
I don’t subscribe to any streaming television service. There is no need to.
Depends entirely on your taste in entertainment. Streaming is where the quality and innovation is and has been for 20-plus years. The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Handmaid's Tale, Ozark, Ted Lasso, Succession, Severance, The Pitt, The Studio. And those are just the biggest ones. There are a couple dozen more.
Or, y'know.....this:
en.wikipedia.org
Or, y'know.....this:
2025–26 United States network television schedule - Wikipedia
Proxy servers can do a lot of things these days.
Fire up the Tor browser, setup the proxy to be somewhere else, and away you go.
AMC was not a streaming network. Neither was HBO when the Sopranos started.Depends entirely on your taste in entertainment. Streaming is where the quality and innovation is and has been for 20-plus years. The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Handmaid's Tale, Ozark, Ted Lasso, Succession, Severance, The Pitt, The Studio. And those are just the biggest ones. There are a couple dozen more.
Or, y'know.....this:
2025–26 United States network television schedule - Wikipedia
Fair. Replace those with another three shows. Point still stands.
I’ll amend your statement to broadcast tv is not where the quality is anymore. You need pay more for the good stuff.