Enjoy The Oscars? Well, Shreveport Didn’t

Or they could’ve, had they been able to watch. Comcast customers in Shreveport, Louisiana, sat down to watch the Oscars only to find a “Technical Difficulties” screen in it’s place. The outage affected viewers within a 750-mile radius of the city, except for those able to get ABC affiliate KTBS over the air. The outage couldn’t be worse for a city and state closely tied with the film industry, with “Django Unchained” filmed in the state, Quvenzhani Wallis being from Houma, and last years’ Best Animated Short coming from Shreveport-based Moonbot Studios.

Read more at ktbs.com.