Here's my logic behind running late: once they've gone past the hour/half-hour mark, that's a half-hour slot they've basically rendered useless to ABC. Yeah, ABC could show a twenty-minute block of commercials, but once the Oscars are over, everyone's going to turn off the TV or change channels anyway, so in order to keep people watching those commercials, it's actually more beneficial to keep the show going. So basically, if you're going to run five minutes late, you may as well run 25(+) minutes late, at that point. Following that logic, I just picked a random number over 25.
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Here's my logic behind running late: once they've gone past the hour/half-hour mark, that's a half-hour slot they've basically rendered useless to ABC. Yeah, ABC could show a twenty-minute block of commercials, but once the Oscars are over, everyone's going to turn off the TV or change channels anyway, so in order to keep people watching those commercials, it's actually more beneficial to keep the show going. So basically, if you're going to run five minutes late, you may as well run 25(+) minutes late, at that point. Following that logic, I just picked a random number over 25.