Across America and worldwide, people tuned in to this year’s Oscars. With two of the final awards to be given, Hulu Live gets cut off. According to Deadline, Hulu subscribers were in deep shock as Hulu Live TV got cut off when the award show was just about to end. Why did the Oscar get cut off so suddenly? Because the Disney-owned service stream ended before the show did.
The Oscars was usually a night to celebrate movies and hand out awards for those who put in their effort to win the biggest award in film. Hosted by late-night host Conan O’Brien live on ABC, viewers expected the night to go smoothly, but Hulu gives out just as the show was about to end. Disney gave Deadline the following statement: “This evening, we experienced technical and live stream issues on Hulu, which impacted some Oscars viewers. We apologize for the experience and will make a full replay of the event available as soon as possible.”
The viewers missed the results for the Oscars for Best Actress, which was Anora’s Mikey Madison(Scream, The AddamsFamily). The issue happened at 3 hours and 47 minutes. Hulu only planned for 3 hours and 30-ish minutes. It turns out it wasn’t there only that night viewers were upset Disney tampered with effort to provide skewing digital complement to the main broadcast ABC. Hulu took to X(formerly Twitter) to address the issue. Thanks so much for hanging in there! Our team took the necessary steps to resolve this, so you should be all set after rebooting your device. We appreciate your patience!”Our team has identified the issue, and the users affected should be able to log back in again soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
With this technical difficulties will Hulu be trusted next year with the Oscars ?