Neal Freiman

Last year, Conan O'Brien hosted and the ratings hit a five-year high for ABC, about 19.7 million people tuned in.

That was up from

19.5 million the year before as recently as 2019, there were 30 million people watching the Oscars.

So Conan O'Brien is going again.

This is happening in the middle of March.

And then of course, in 2029, the Oscars is leaving ABC and going to YouTube.

And we're going to see how that changes the telecast.

I hope it makes it shorter, but it's not going to be because YouTube doesn't have to end for anything coming after.

And the problem is this, this thing runtime last year was three hours and 50 minutes.

We're going to, when we come back to the United States, there's going to be a massive snow storm and I promise I will binge it then.

Okay.

We have a long flight home.

I will watch it at some point over the next.

Couple of days.

Pretty cool to see how hockey teams and the NHL are capitalizing it.

They are fully embracing this.

And why shouldn't they?

The Ottawa Senators have this official team shop.

They're selling jerseys featuring the names and numbers of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, who I know by name, even though I haven't watched the show because you've talked about it so much.

They sold out of jerseys at an actual game last Saturday night.