Drell-Yan-like W-boson and Z-boson production in the resonance region allows for some high-precision measurements that are crucial to carry experimental tests of the Standard Model to the extremes, such as the determinations of the W-boson mass and the effective weak mixing angle. We describe how the Standard Model prediction can be successfully performed in terms of a consistent expansion about the resonance pole, which classifies the corrections in terms of factorizable and non-factorizable contributions. The former can be attributed to the W/Z production and decay subprocesses individually, while the latter link production and decay by soft-photon exchange. At next-to-leading order we compare the full electroweak corrections with the pole-expanded approximations, confirming the validity of the approximation. At O(\alpha_s\alpha), we describe the concept of the expansion and report on results on the non-factorizable contributions, which turn out to be phenomenologically negligible. Moreover, we present first (preliminary) results on the dominant factorizable O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections, which originate from the interplay of initial-state QCD and final-state electroweak corrections. Numerically those corrections significantly differ from a mere product of the two next-to-leading-order correction factors.
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