Hulu customers, who witnessed the Academy Award ceremony on Sunday night, were angered when the streaming service ended its broadcast before the show was really finished. The audience saw a “Thanks for viewing” the message, claimed that “the live event is now finished” – despite the fact that the best actress and best pictures Oscars were still coming. Social media platform and Hulu subdit Immediately burnt with complaints and threats to cancel.
It left a thick night for Disney -owned service. A few hours ago, Hulu admitted that some customers Was logging in: That problem was fixed 9pm a little before ETBut closing the live stream ahead of the biggest prizes of the evening was an even more embarrassing blunder.
This error came down for scheduling: Hulu gave the Oscar a fixed time of 10:32 pm. Well when the audience starts coming out of the stream. But as usual, many acceptance speeches farying for a long time on Sunday night, and Hulu’s chosen cutoff time did not allow sufficiently to-broadcast for often-unnecessary broadcasting.
“This evening, we experienced technical and live stream issues on Hulu, which affects some Oscar audience,” Disney said in a statement provided by Spokesperson Dorothy Balowe. “We apologize for the experience and will provide complete recurrence of the event as soon as possible.”
I do not know how in 2025 we are still doing these streaming accidents – especially from the company that owns Oscar telecast rights, the network on which it was done, and the streaming service in question – but here we are. The cable audience and watchers with TV antenna were spared with technical difficulties. Streaming customers through Hulu with Live TV were also unaffected as they were watching live, linear ABC feeds.
Update, 3 March 12:20 am: The article is updated with a comment from Disney.
