If they really want the Oscars to have a bigger audience....

... maybe they could work out a way to have them carried here in China, where there are a whole bunch of CCTV networks available and a lot of potential eyeballs. Just a thought.*

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* Yes, yes, I know there are a lot of doughy issues involved here, from Hollywood's grudge about the ubiquity of pirate videos in China to the ridiculously starchy Chinese policy of allowing only a handful of foreign films to be shown in legit movie houses here. For another time. Right now I'm just pouting about finding yet another anti-Japanese historical drama, plus another inter-city Chinese soccer game, on the government networks rather than getting to see Jerry Lewis and whomever else I'm missing on-screen. (And, yes, I am being catty about Jerry Lewis, but there are a lot of the other folk I'd actually like to see. Ah, the sacrifices of foreign-correspondentry.)
  By the way, CCTV = "China Central TV," not closed-circuit TV.
UPDATE: And of course I'm pouting because last year I was actually on the Oscar show, and now.... 
I'm still big. It's the Oscars that got small.
Update 2: I should have specified "carry them live." Readers have helpfully pointed out that they'll be on later tonight on CCTV6!  Never mind, I am just pouting.