For the first time in its more than 60 year history, the Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, associated disruption and threat to public health. The unprecedented move was made earlier today by the European Broadcasting Union. See their official […]
It has been announced in the last hour that Martin Österdahl has been chosen to replace Jon Ola Sand as the Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The decision was made by Jean Philip De Tender, the EBU Director of Media […]
ESC2019: Statement on Grand Final jury result The EBU has acknowledged a mistake in the jury results from the Grand Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. After the Belarusian jury was dismissed for the Grand Final, an aggregation of other jury scores were used to determine that […]
The Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group, that meets 5-6 times a year, have had three changes made to their line-up. Mr Edoardo Grassi (FT/France), Mr Martin Osterdahl (SVT/Sweden) and Mr Joao Nuno Nogueira (RTP/Portugal) have left the group. The three replacing members are Ms Carla Bugalho (RTP/Portugal), Ms […]
Today the EBU unveiled a series of modifications to the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest for 2018’s competition, due to take place in Lisbon next May. While the rules do not change the format of Europe’s favourite show, they do tweak some of the specifications regarding the […]
Last night, the Communication department, PR and Protocol from TVR released the following statement: “Romanian Television (TVR) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have reached an agreement to enable the broadcast by TVR of Eurovision Song Contest. (…) The problems between TVR and EBU started several years ago […]
After weeks of meetings, discussions, false leeks, EBU visits and altered announcement dates it has finally been announced publicly that next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv. The bidding phase had ended with Dnipro, Kyiv and Odessa being the last three […]
Today we celebrate a little experiment that happened exactly 60 years ago on a cloudy and wet night in Lugano Switzerland. Seven countries had gathered to enter a song into a European song competition to see whether the idea of different music, language and culture could combine to make […]
“Russia will not participate in the Eurovision song contest anymore!” – Dmitry Medvedev. Serbian news agency SlobodniMediji.com are reporting that AP have reported that Russian Prime Minister Medvedev has said today of the Eurovision Song Contest. “This is not about a good song anymore, this is a real show of dirty […]
Time for the EBU to amend the Eurovision Song Contest rule (1.2.1a)? In a series of articles that we will be delivering over the coming weeks, we will be looking at the lessons that can be taken away from Eurovision 2016 as the aftermath of the wonderful contest […]
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