The Breakfast Club - Things Are Getting Streaming

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

Today on the show Loren LoRosa breaks down what might be the clearest sign yet that traditional television is officially on its way out. From the Oscars announcing a historic move from ABC to YouTube beginning in 2029, to The Breakfast Club and other major podcasts partnering with Netflix, the entertainment industry is undergoing a massive streaming-first shift. Lauren unpacks what these deals really mean for Hollywood, legacy studios, creators, and audiences—why old-school media can no longer fight the digital wave, and how streaming platforms are redefining power, access, and storytelling. She also explores how this evolution opens the door for a new generation of creators, especially those who understand internet culture, audience engagement, and doing more with less. Is this the end of cable as we knew it? What happens when prestige institutions finally embrace platforms built for the internet? And how can creators position themselves to win in this new era?YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Lauren came in hot. Hey y'all, what's up? It's Lauren the Rosa. And this is the latest with. Lauren the Rosa. This is your deadly dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, today we are going to get into a conversation about TV, about television, or what is left of television, because as we all know, the way that we consume television is completely different today in 2025. Now, raise your hand out

there, and of course, I can't see you. So that means you need to hit the like button, comment below yell at me on social media at Lauren LaRosa L-O-R-E-N everywhere How do you guys consume What would have been cable television content Today? Because I mean If I'm thinking about myself, I haven't had like actual cable TV

Wow, when was the last time I had cable TV? I think, oh, I can you remember? It might have been right before the pandemic And even then, I think, yeah, that was a streaming-ish version of it. That's so crazy. I don't remember the last time I've paid like a Xfinity or wherever you are, whatever, you know, city or state you live in, an actual cable provider to provide, like, TV that you turn on that isn't attached to Wi-Fi.

So, yeah, y'all let me know. Getting right on into the latest, here's what's going down. So as I was driving in to the podcast, I began to see this story. I got a notification from the Hollywood Reporter and, you know, some of the other trades. Trades are the media outlets that announce like the shows and new businesses and new deals and things like that. That's what the trades are called. Shout out to Dame Dash. The title of this article is Oscars Bolt from ABC to YouTube starting in 2029, the world's highest profile and most watched award show,

which has aired on ABC since 1976 will be moving to streaming only platform we'll be moving to a streaming only platform as a part of a deal that also includes red carpet coverage the Oscar nominations announcement the Governor Awards and Moore

so not even just the Oscar Awards show but everything that leads up to the award so the Governor Awards the red carpet which is again I'm sitting here like I know that they traditionally air a lot of the award shows on these like you know very cable networkish channels the ABCs NBC's which all do have their own you know streaming ends as well for the most part or they team

up with a streamer um like I know that NBC does stuff with peacock uh shout out to NBC New York for who we did a lot of our ditty coverage with in a lot of our coverage that we did there is on peacock as well but I was surprised to read this because I'm like why wasn't there already a deal I know when I watch all red carpets and all, you know, Grammys or whatever award shows just to cover it in news, I'm watching it via YouTube television. I have the subscription there. But when I,

even before I had that subscription to be able to see things live, like actually like I'm paying for it to know I'll get it. I always knew that I could watch the red carpets live because they stream live, not even just on YouTube, but like I know a lot of platforms now go live on Twitter and have it set up literally on your Twitter feed or your ex-feed where you could just watch the red carpets from there and it's a whole news broadcast. So I don't know.

I think the deals are finally catching up with times or something. But this report says in the news that will send shockwaves across the entertainment industry, the Oscar ceremony, which has aired on ABC since 1976, will be moving to YouTube starting in 2029. So they have some time and will be broadcast by the streamer through at least 2033. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today, which is Wednesday, December 17th. The Disney-owned Alphabet Network will continue to, when y'all hear Alphabet boys,

you either think about the IRS or the community you don't want to mess with, so I start laughing. We'll continue to air the Oscars, which has long been the world's most watched awards, awards, awards, telecast through the 100th edition of the awards show in 2028. After that, the ceremony will be available live

and for free to cover to over 2 billion people around the world on YouTube and YouTube TV subscribers in the United States. Shout out to me, YouTube TV subscriber. I signed up a long time ago. As part of the newly inked deal, YouTube will broadcast not only the Oscar ceremony itself, which generated over $150 million in revenue, y'all. This fiscal year, which ended in June, it ended June 30th.

And they'll also be broadcasted a lot of other related content like what we talked about. The Red Carpet, the Governor Awards. Yeah, this is a big deal. I mean, it's a big deal, but it's like a duh thing. And I do know that there were like small things happening again, like I said, because you could watch all the, like if not majority of the award shows at this point in the carpets prior to and certain things via social media platforms live. So I know that a lot of these awards shows, they had to because it's literally like get with it or get lost. Like if you are not streaming something somewhere digitally at this point,

You're burnt out. Like, we are miles ahead of you. But to see the official deal go out this way, especially with the Oscars being such a big, like, and long, coveted show. Number one, I think it shows, if I'm being completely honest, it shows that Hollywood is a little bit more reluctant to give in, I think, to where things are going.

And I think a lot of that is because of the studios. Now, granted, the Oscars isn't like a major, you know, studio production uh you know studios typically lean more into things like like big um box office style films and you know things of that nature but i was reading about the deal that they were doing or trying to do and it's very competitive they're you know direct op the opposition is paramount because paramount also wants in on ownership of the entire warner brothers one of the the articles that i read um across one of the trades it was just talking about how a lot of the studio owners are like, they're nervous and are saying that, you know, a Netflix or a

paramount, you know, streaming servicer picking up, you know, a big entity like Warner Brothers, it almost kills the studios because you don't need the big Hollywood studios to do a lot of what we're seeing on these streaming platforms. Like, I do think that there is, you know, in a perfect world, there's always a way that you can make business work right because if it's not broke you're not going to fix it so like if you can take you know the same initiative power uh infrastructure that a hollywood studio has and lend it to a streaming which a lot of them do like they there are movies that go straight to streaming i know tyler perry does it i know uh amazon does like there's a lot of different you know platforms

that or Tyler perry does it would be a lot with bt plus he's also done it with netflix uh Netflix has done it with other studios and Toys Amazon Prime, but for them to own such a big catalog of content in that way and be able to kind of almost like throw their weight around even bigger than they already, I mean, they're Netflix, so it's already possible. But for them to do it even bigger and not need all of the other studios in Hollywood, I mean, that's a win-win. But I think other people are looking at it like this changes the industry so much because with one big conglomerate like a Netflix controlling all of that you don't need as much you don't need as many people because Netflix internally is able to build out their own production as well too

which is where a lot of the studios come in with bringing in the different production companies that they work with under their studios and the licensing deals and you know things are just shifting and they're changing and I think what a lot of this is going to mean is that way, right? Because think about the Oscars. The Oscars has been around since 1976. The Oscars is so highly like coveted and prestigious and like everybody wants these awards. Everybody turns on cable television to watch it and you know, regardless of how you're watching ABC at the time, you're watching the Oscars. It's just one of those like things that you do. I think that it shows that as regal and regarded as

old Hollywood wants to remain, it is, it is like, although we've come to the end of the road, like they can't fight what's happening. I mean, they're already behind and trying to, you know, do things any other way than what we saw announced today. But when I saw the announcement today, I'm like, this took for it. Like, why now? Like, this is something that should have been happened. But I do know that there, you know, there's a sense of, if it's not broke, don't fix it. And I do think that there's a sense of um it's almost like if you're a clothing designer and you've been sewing by hand and doing you know cut and sew which is like a very like you know higher quality intimate process you don't ever want to lean into fast fashion which is you know where things are like

produced very fast the fabrics may not be as high quality but you try and do your best to make it good right you want to remain like the person who was like taking the time but then you have all these companies coming in like a fashion nova a shin a teamoo all these Instagram brands who are running circles around you because of the mass that they're able to produce and put out. You've got to keep up. I think what we're about to see now is old school Hollywood and just old school everything.

Old school regimes and entertainment, they've already, and I think especially since the pandemic with people cutting budgets and creators realizing how much you could do it less, the old regime of how we produce content for the masses, whether it's audio or visual, There's no turning back after this year. Like, you can't, you can't even fake the funk anymore.

But either way, it's good for us, right? It's good to see things moving, changing, presenting more opportunities. You know, Oscar's So White was some years ago now, and they've been working ever since to do better. So there's more of that as well, because, you know, black people be on the internet, we're there. So yesterday, it was announced that the Breakfast Club is heading on over the Netflix. And then YouTube decided they wanted to pull up on the Oscars

and bring the Oscars back home too, like a cheapo. Let's talk about what this means for content creation, for storytelling. Shoot, for me. Let's talk about it. Congratulations to the Breakfast Club. We talked about this today on the show. The Breakfast Club, along with Bobby Bones Presents,

The Bobbycast. My Favorite Murder, which is a hit-crime, a hit original true crime show, There are Chelsea, which is a big podcast that Chelsea Handler has, Joe and Jada, which is, y'all know, fat, you don't know, Fat Joe and Jada Kids have a show where they sit down and discuss all things music, hip hop culture. This is important, which is a comedy podcast featuring the workaholics, Adam Deveen, and Anders Holm and Blake Anderson. The Psychology of Your 20s is also another show that you guys will see in this partnership on Netflix, Behind the Bastards. Stuff they don't want you to know, which is a curiosity podcast with Matt Frederick, Ben Bowling, and Noel Brown. Stuff you missed in history class, another curiosity podcast with Holy Frey and Tracy Wilson.

Stuff to blow your mind. Three and out with John Middlecough. Buried Bones, a history and true, let me tell you how when I got into a podcast and I learned quickly that true crime podcast, tear it up. up okay take me through that take me through that where we're going to and eat it up eat it up true crime podcast okay the genre kills it on the podcast side um but yeah so there's a lot of true crime on this list uh new roy and rile are also on the list so yes y'all let me tell y'all the new regime is here like it is literally here because all of these all of these uh things that i talked about today from the podcast you'll still hear them wherever you originally begin to hear them so breakfast club

Still on the radio every morning, but with Netflix coming in as a partner, it's just, I mean, you're taking things to new heights. Like, it's no turning back at this point. Like, if you were ever to deny where a streaming was and how it was happening and how you were going to integrate it in a lot of those like household shows and vehicles, don't even think about it, just do it. That's the answer. So I googled this because I'm like, I know for a fact, so when I watch the Oscars,

I don't have cable. So I know I watched it via streaming. So I wanted to understand what their partnership prior to this big announcement of them coming to YouTube fully in 2020, it would look like. So according to online research, the Oscars have historically been on broadcast television, traditional broadcast television, ABC, like we mentioned. But they began partnering with streaming platforms in a limited capacity. So they did something with Hulu as a part of a larger Disney ABC corporate structure. The ceremony was available to stream on Hulu in the U.S. in recent years, though some live stream viewers experience technical difficulties.

They also had some international partners that they partner with as well. The YouTube CEO, Neil Mohan, said in a statement to Deadline, who was the trade that broke the news, partnering with the academy to bring the celebration of art and entertainment to viewers all over the world or inspire a new generation of creativity. I told y'all the new generation of content creator, of show producer of what a studio looks like is here. here you cannot get around it this is the best time if you are of the new generation of content

creator or even if you don't create content if you um i mean like if you're not the subject of the content or like the actual person coming up with the idea but maybe you just work on a team that executes it or whatever and you are young and you understand the streaming and the internet and you're able to i feel like what our generation because we've been on we're we're really internet babies and I'm in that like middle point where I kind of remember when like internet was like there but like it wasn't what it was now so like we had like I remember when you had to go and like print out your directions to get somewhere so like you didn't have GPS for real you could go on maps.com and answer the address and it would tell you how to get there but it

wasn't updating you in real time on your phone or your tablet or whatever I also remember there only being like a black planet and then a my space and then facebook came and then instagram came i remember you could only post like i remember you couldn't post video on instagram at all and then you could post like small like i think it was like 10 or 15 second videos so we got to see the evolution of a lot of the internet so it's kind of easy to predict i don't know about y'all but for me when i see things like this it makes me excited because i'm looking at this like it's so easy to predict where things are going and it's so easy to position yourself in a way where your business can grow and you can learn you know from the mistakes and the winds of other people around you as things grow because

you're able to keep in mind where things are headed because we've seen this before like we've seen this evolution some people just late to throw in in the full towel um the the the youtube CEO continues uh to say that this will inspire that new generation of creativity and film lovers while staying true to the Oscar story legacy. Well, thank you guys so much for joining me today to talk about all things like new. And y'all better get what to get lost or get out the way. Okay? I am excited.

I think 2026 with everything that we're seeing in the news is going to bring room for new opportunity, for new things to look forward to. But also, too, I think, like, I really just, and this has been for some years now where I think, especially once the writer's strike hit creators and content and storytelling has been in a very different place I think people you know sadly have had to figure out how to do a lot with a little bit

which is never good when you're talking about art because you know like when budgets get tight people lose jobs people are not able to do things that you know for some creators like it's create or die like it's literally what you've lived your life to do and your fallback plan isn't something that you want to ever have to fall back on.

So when things get tight, people shut down production, shut down studios, people lose jobs. It's never a good thing. But I think, you know, as we are seeing things like these partnerships happen, although traditionally in the digital space teams are really smaller, I think it just, you know, if I'm looking at the silver lining and all of this and the big lean towards, you know, all of the big prestigious regimes fully leading and throwing themselves into the digital space

and the streaming space. I think what it will do is it will create a lane where, you know, with us being able to just turn on our phone, record and press upload and have a platform, it'll create opportunity in a lane where if you do that and you do it, you know, with quality, you do it consistently, there's really, really, really big opportunity in, I keep using the word opportunity, but there's really big,

there's really big room for growth and partnership there. And it's for anybody. Like I, I'm feeling, again, like the optimistic feeling that I had way before I started doing anything in entertainment, but I would literally just turn on some of my favorite shows or see my favorite It Girls on the internet doing things and trying to figure out how did they do this? Like, how are they living their lives just being themselves and telling stories that they love to tell and you know everything in all peaches and creams a peaches and cream a lot of this is highlight rules but you know to be able to be a creator or to work with creators to be able to tell story is not something that anybody should take lightly and i think whenever we see shifts in the industry there's two things you can do

you can fight it or you can figure out your positioning your foundation build it and let them come and i'm excited to see what is built in this new reign, in this new era of streaming partnership for everybody all over the world and who rises in it. The cream of the crop will rise and who rises in it. And I'm excited to be amongst the people in it.

So congratulations to the Breakfast Club heading on over the Netflix and I guess we'll be seeing, you know, y'all at the Oscars on YouTube too. That was a little cheap little plug. Oscars invite you girl. I'm Lauren the Rosa. This is the latest with Lauren the Rosa.

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with the people everyone's talking about. I'll also tell you what I'm reading, what I'm watching, what's making me crazy, and what's giving me hope. If you like deep dives, hot takes, and real talk, you're in the right place. Search Katie Couric on Substack and hit subscribe. I'll be there reporting live, most likely, in my pajamas. See you there. I knew it was a bomb the second that it exploded.

I felt it ripped through me. In season two of Rip Current, we asked, who tried to kill Judy Berry and why. They were climbing trees and they were sabotaging logging equipment in the woods. She received death threats before the bombing. She received more threats after the bombing. I think that this is a deliberate attempt to sabotage our movement. Episodes of Rip Current Season 2 are available now. Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Short on time, but big on true crime. On a recent episode of the podcast hunting for answers, I highlighted the story of 19-year-old Lechay Dungey. But she never knocked on that door. she never made it inside and that text message would be the last time anyone would ever hear from her listen to hunting for answers from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeart Radio app

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