ABC Gets Oscarcast for Five More Years
ABC has locked up coverage of the Academy Awards for five more years under a contract extension announced by ABC Entertainment and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The network has televised the Oscars since 1976.
The extended contract will keep the Oscar telecast on the network through 1995. The 61st annual Academy Awards are scheduled for next March.
In reporting the new pact at the ABC affiliates meeting here this week, Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Entertainment, called the Oscars “the crown jewel of television specials” and expressed his delight in continuing ABC’s link with the motion picture academy “well into the next decade.
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