The Academy Awards ceremony will stream live online for the first time to select cable providers in eight US cities.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and American Broadcasting Company announced on Thursday that Sunday's telecast will be available online and on mobile devices. A cable or satellite subscription login is required for the live stream at Oscar.com and ABC.com, or via the mobile app Watch ABC.
The live stream will be available in eight cities where ABC owns the local station: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and Fresno, California.
It's also available only to subscribers of Comcast, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Midcontinent Communications, Verizon FiOS, Google Fiber and AT&T U-verse.
The 86th annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on Sunday from Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre.
