The past 48 hours have seen more countries confirm their participation at Eurovision 2014. Time to recap as of midnight on Thursday October 10th. The following broadcasters have confirmed that they will be participating in next year’s contest Recent Countries confirmed their participation over the last 48 hours […]
Turkey was represented at Eurovision 2011 by the rock band Yüksek Sadakat. The group’s bass guitarist Kutlu Özmakinacı has gone on record “allegedly” to say what he was led to believe about the result of the Azerbaijan victory of Ell and Nikki in 2011. In an article by […]
“Bosnia and Herzegovina has decided not to participate in the Eurovision song contest, and to join newly founded alternative Turkvision”. This is the claim made yesterday by the Bulgarian News Agency Novinite and Serbian Website Novi Magazin. The move from Eurovision to Turkvision is allegedly “motivated by what Bosnia’s TV organizers […]
Over the next 2 weeks both TRT (Turkish National Broadcaster) and the EBU’s Broadcasting Committee will meet in Istanbul to talk of the country’s future at Eurovision. You have all read of the amendments that the EBU have made to the voting practices that will be in place at Eurovision 2014 […]
The Eurovision Song Contest is currently the #1 Trending news item on the BBC in the UK today. Very hard to believe that the contest which is so often ridiculed by the British Media, is now their top trending story. Why is this? Well it is down to […]
Turkey may have said that they will not attend Eurovision until changes are made to the voting and Big 5 status, so they have provided their Turkish Eurovision Fans and Diaspora with the next best thing – “TurkVision”. Briefly “TurkVision” is a Eurasian Music Contest created by Turkish […]
Turkey were not present at Eurovision 2013 and their Eastern flavor was certainly missed at this year’s contest. Still no confirmation of their return to the contest in 2014 as of yet. In the meantime some of their artists have released strong contemporary new material, so we thought it […]
The Eurovision Song Contest and the Performance of Europe’, a lecture by Prof Brian Singleton,as part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe. Though heavily criticised for its camp staging and the simplistic lyrics of many of its songs, the Eurovision Song Contest has survived for 58 years […]
The Ultimate Eurovision Remix Playlists from 2010 to 2013! Eurovision Ireland would like to thank all of the people who have visited our website this year. We are almost at half a million views to our website and 130,000 hits on our YouTube videos that we have made. […]
Turkey may not be participating in the Eurovision Song Contest this year but their OGAE Club have cast their votes for Eurovision 2013. Will they be awarding Azerbaijan their 12 points? Let’s take a closer look. OGAE Turkey 1 point – the Netherlands 2 points – Russia 3 […]