The European Broadcasting Union’s Executive Board have agreed to suspend BTRC, the Belarusian national broadcaster. A two week period has been given to BTRC for a response. The Executive Board of the European Broadcasting Union, had the following to say: “The EBU has been closely monitoring the suppression […]
The European Broadcasting Union has given Eurovoix a statement in regards to the current situation surrounding Belarus in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. The EBU had the following to say, without any further details: “We are still in discussions with Belarus’ broadcaster BTRC regarding the submission of a […]
Following various media outlets calling on the European Broadcasting Union to act upon this year’s Belarusian entry, they have released the following statement: With the closing date for entries this forthcoming Monday, March 15th, BTRC, the Belarusian national broadcaster will have to act quickly if they don’t want […]
#EDITORIAL: Shine a light As usual, the devoted Eurovision fan community will be picking apart what happened on the evening of Eurovision Day. Except, it was no normal Eurovision Day (is there ever?). In place of the usual riotous cavalcade of quality song, we had a pared down […]
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 […]