'Live!' to Host Post-Oscar Special

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Live! with Kelly is headed to Hollywood to present its first-ever post-Oscar special live from the Kodak Theater.

Picking up where Oprah left off, Disney-ABC's Live! will air on Monday, Feb. 27, and will feature host Kelly Ripa chatting with Oscar winners, presenters and a panel of experts on the red-carpet fashions of Hollywood's big night.

Live! also is partnering with Slim-Fast to award a trip for two to Hollywood for Oscar weekend, as well as other prizes. Tickets to attend the show can be applied for at LiveWithKelly.TV. Ticket winners will receive them via email during the week of Feb. 13, 2012.

The Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Kodak Theater at the Hollywood and Highland Center and broadcast on ABC.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.