FRIDAY PRESS REVIEW - December 19 2025
Here are some of the most interesting articles of the last weeks selected by The Consultancy Group:
The Oscars to leave ABC and stream on YouTube starting in 2029
Culture - The Academy Awards will begin streaming exclusively on YouTube in 2029, the latest big change in Hollywood.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that it signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars until 2033.
The Oscars, which is planned for 15 March, has aired for a half a century on ABC. Starting in 2029, the show will be available live and for free on YouTube.
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An 'Uber of the Alps': The Swiss ski resort reinventing winter
Innovation - From the summit of Crap Sogn Gion, it felt like all of the Alps were on the move. Skiers were carving, snowboarders swooping, tobogganists gliding. But below the rolling clouds, a different sort of winter obsessive was heading to work.
At 2,228m (7309ft), with chairlifts spinning, Reto Fry – environmental manager for the Weisse Arena Group, which owns the resort of Laax, one of Switzerland's largest winter sports destinations – looked out towards the rippling glaciers and meringue peaks of the Unesco-listed Tectonic Arena Sardona. The landscape may be 300 million years old, but right now Fry's job is squarely fixed on the Alps' future.
Raymond van Barneveld sunk by Swiss star Stefan Bellmont at PDC worlds
Sport - The five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld was left stunned after falling to a straight-sets defeat by Switzerland’s Stefan Bellmont in their first-round clash at Alexandra Palace.
Bellmont produced the performance of his career to become the first Swiss player win a match at the World Darts Championship. The 36-year-old from Cham hopes that his success will inspire a wave of darts enthusiasts in his home country.