By City News Service
93rd Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals
HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Viewership for ABC s Oscars telecast plummeted to 9.85 million viewers, according to preliminary figures released today by Nielsen, continuing the trend of record-low viewership for awards shows since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Viewership for Sunday s host-less ceremony held at Union Station dropped 58% from the 23.569-million average for the 2020 ceremony, which had been a record low.
Final figures are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but are not expected to change significantly from those released Monday. The difference between preliminary and final figures for the Oscars is customarily between 100,000 and 300,000 viewers.
One year after spurning the Port of Los Angeles, aerospace company SpaceX has signed a lease to take over 6.5 acres of land at the Port of Long Beach for use in West Coast rocket-recovery operations, the city announced today.
By City News Service
Apr 27, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles man and his Nigeria-based younger brother face federal charges for allegedly working to con women out of cash in online dating scams and laundering the money through U.S. banks, federal prosecutors said today.
Kinston Osagie, 53, and his sibling, Roland Ighiwiyisi, 40, are charged with multiple counts of money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office in San Francisco.
Osagie allegedly opened at least 18 different U.S. bank accounts between January 2015 and August which took in about $6 million in cash, check and wire deposits. Of that amount, the indictment alleges $3 million is traceable primarily to victims of romance fraud.