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Posted on 12/17/2025 8:20:07 PM PST by Red Badger
In a reflection of Hollywood’s ongoing decline, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the Academy Awards will depart from network TV and move to streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029.
The ceremony will continue on ABC through 2028, the 100th Anniversary of the Oscars.
Ratings for the show have been on a steady downward decline for years for reasons that seem obvious to everyone except people in Hollywood.
America stopped paying attention because people don’t want to be lectured about politics from rich liberals who live in a bubble.
Ratings for the once ‘must-watch tv’ have continued to decline in recent years, including record lows in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
AP reports:
But starting in 2029, YouTube will retain global rights to streaming the Oscars through 2033. YouTube will effectively be the home to all things Oscars, including red-carpet coverage, the Governors Awards and the Oscar nominations announcement.
“We are thrilled to enter into a multifaceted global partnership with YouTube to be the future home of the Oscars and our year-round Academy programming,” said academy chief executive Bill Kramer and academy president Lynette Howell Taylor.
“The Academy is an international organization, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to the largest worldwide audience possible — which will be beneficial for our Academy members and the film community.”
Over the years, the ceremony has become an opportunity for out-of-touch stars to signal their woke beliefs and attack Donald Trump and his supporters.
New diversity rules were imposed by the Oscars several years ago, which stipulate that to be eligible for the “Best Picture” award, films must meet two of four specified diversity benchmarks.
Fresh from her Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jamie Lee Curtis ensured that woke politics were front and center by tearfully announcing that she had given her Oscar statue they/them pronouns in support of her trans daughter, Ruby.
In his speech, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-director Daniel Scheinert thanked his parents for letting him dress in drag as a child as the crowd roared their approval.
In 2024, host Jimmy Kimmel went on a Trump Derangement-fueled rant.
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He ripped them good on the Golden Globe Awards. Worth watching on YT. There is profanity though.
They can’t do their unhinged, uncensored swear-filled rants at Trump on over the air tv.
Maybe twitch.tv with the wannabe DJs and constant ads. The DJs contantly talk over the music they play.
I am happy they have a passion, but they need to know when to talk and when not to.
The decline of network and cable television continues. They are big losers here.
As long as it doesn’t show up in my algorithm, I’m OK with it.
They are communists. so it is must watch TV.
Dear Hollywood,
No one cares.
V
Well Bye, won’t miss ya’.
There’s still good movies being made. They just don’t win any Oscar’s because of the woke, fag, perverted leftists that select the Oscar winners these days.
HA!! The Oscars literally have a dei checklist and if the movie the studio has does not meet it then no award for you so the studios caved in and the plummeting box office and near empty soundstages and now the oscars on youtube are the result.
YouTube is now the biggest online platform, larger than Netflix. I’m not sure that going off broadcast tv is a big deal. I haven’t watched linear tv in many years. I would guess that many young people never have. They watch on their phones, tablets and laptops.
+1
Why not do direct to DVD?
Many foreign actors seem more real, I just saw in Norwegian with English subs, Sentimental Value. -—
“It stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning.”
The Indy 500 actually went from tape-delayed to live 40 years ago. The 2025 Indy 500 was the 40th live broadcast. Miss America lost television in recent years.
It wasn’t until the 1979 Daytona 500 that full-length 500-mile events aired live.
The Oscars dropping down to Google should say how Big Tech has taken over Hollywood. ABC gets the Grammys in 2027. This will be such a disaster that the Academy has proven how elitism works. Elitism is more relevant to the Left.
I remember fondly when I was a kid that tv and movies really meant something....we all got our blankets and pillows out on the living room floor to watch the Wizard of Oz a few days after Christmas..watching the Jerry Lewis telethon was a big deal at one time...Ed Sullivan and the Beatles.
Narrowcasting has been part of the mission. Network is broadcast because it scopes for the widest audience.
But the use of obscene language and inappropriate behaviour in the first year of a post-Trump Administration Oscars shows how they will push the envelope to advance adult material now that they can show it.
Speaking of Hollyweird...
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
🚨GPS—Rob Reiner appears in the immediate vicinity of Barack Hussein Obama II, over 500 times, including in Mexico, where Bill and Hillary Clinton joined them.
Barack and Michelle Obama had planned to meet with Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, for dinner on the evening of Sunday, December 14, 2025—the same day their bodies were discovered in their Brentwood home in Los Angeles.
Michelle Obama publicly confirmed this during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on December 15 or 16, stating that she and her husband had known the Reiners for many years and “were supposed to be seeing them that night” before learning of their deaths.
The Committee to Investigate Russia (also known as http://InvestigateRussia.org), a nonprofit organization founded and directed by Rob Reiner in 2017 to highlight Russian interference in U.S. elections, had an advisory board that included four former CIA directors (or acting directors):
Leon Panetta (CIA Director, 2009–2011)
Michael Hayden (CIA Director, 2006–2009; also former NSA Director)
Michael Morell (Acting CIA Director, 2011 and 2012–2013)
John Brennan (CIA Director, 2013–2017; referenced in related events and materials, though primary listings emphasize the above)
Rob Reiner served as a key figure and board member, often credited as “Director” in organizational materials.
The advisory board also featured other intelligence figures like James Clapper (former Director of National Intelligence).
Other organizations Rob Reiner directed or led were First 5 California, the I Am Your Child Foundation/Parents’ Action for Children, and the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
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Mike Benz
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Sep 9, 2023
Leon Panetta too!! Haha that’s 4 CIA chiefs all huddled around little old Rob Reiner w/ his talents in… Hollywood production
There’s so many CIA chiefs around him u can literally just miss some
This guy throws a Malibu pool party & u need a national security clearance to go in x.com/MikeBenzCyber/…
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Sounds like the Oskars are going to be created with AI. Everyone in the audience will be wearing sombreros and having big moustaches. ROTFL.
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