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A look at ABC’s Oscars streaming SNAFU

So how did it go when ABC tried streaming the Oscars live online for the first time? Get your popcorn ready.

Last night, ABC promised to stream the Oscars live online for the first time. But it failed. Overloaded computer networks kept the Oscars largely out of view for more than two hours of the broadcast. For this year, an independent service called Aereo—a competitor the networks would like to kill—won the night, just by being down for less of the time.  

 

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