Beginning with the
1st Academy Awards, there were no Oscar pre-shows. Instead, photographers and interviewers would approach the ceremony's nominees and other attendees as usual. However, these events were neither
televised nor heard on the
radio prior to the ceremony. In 1979,
Regis Philbin officially began the very first red carpet pre-show. However, this event was actually produced by
KABC-TV, the
ABC O&O station in Los Angeles, and was not broadcast elsewhere. Ten years later, in 1989, both
MTV and
Movie Time (which became E! a year later) began their red carpet pre-shows with focus on fashion. It would pass another decade, in 1999, when the
AMPAS eventually produced its own red carpet pre-show to air on ABC. Broadcasters such as
CNN, E! (under the
Live from the Red Carpet banner, which it uses for all major award shows), and
Pop have continued to air their own extended red carpet coverage prior to the ceremony. To protect the official telecast, ABC has an exclusive window during the final hour before the ceremony (5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. PT) during which no other broadcaster may broadcast live or newly recorded footage from the red carpet. To comply with this rule, most competing red carpet programs either sign off, or use footage that was
recorded earlier. Interviews by other media outlets may continue, but they may not air on television until the end of the window. == Hosts ==