Sundays seem natural for large TV events. Why wouldn’t they? NFL’s Super Bowl has been on Sundays forever. It feels like the proper order of things that the Academy Awards ceremony is also on a Sunday. Every year, somewhere near the end of February, start of March. Yet, a simple dataset of telecast dates points out that this practice is a relatively recent phenomenon and for a long while things were quite different. For a quick summary of the data, look at the chart below: it shows the progression of the ceremony dates from the most distant (1953) to the closest (2014). For more details on why the changes occurred, keep reading on.
