Next year’s edition of East Laul, the Estonian National Final will be bigger and better. Earlier in the summer, Tomi Rahula took over as Head of Delegation for Estonia and was tasked with improving the nation’s chances of winning the Eurovision Song Contest again. Instead of 20 semi-finalists […]
Happy New Year!!! Yes, as of today until the Head’s Of Delegation meeting in March, any song released into the public domain could be performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, next May. Before we even reach a National Final, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be […]
RTE have confirmed they will be participating at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This comes after the announcement of their Autumn 2018/Spring 2019 programming schedules. After a five year gap, Ryan O’Shaughnessy brought Ireland back to the Final with the song “Together”. Since 2016, Ireland have used the […]
Within the last week, we have seen news that confirms at least one non-debutant and one non-returnee. A few week ago, we looked at the possible debutants at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel next year. We can now confirm that Liechtenstein are very unlikely to be there […]
Last week, the European Broadcasting Union held their General Assembly in Tirana, Albania. After various discussions, a decision was made to hold a vote for Full Membership of RTK in December. While the EBU have declared a vote for December, some countries have already declared their objection around […]
Over the last six months, there have been talks of not one debut in Israel, but three – however this will be unlikely in our eyes, maybe one or two if we are lucky. Kosovo Last week, RTK (the Kosovo Broadcaster) spoke to members of the European Broadcasting […]
Submissions for the second edition of Destination Eurovision have now opened in France. According to Destination Eurovision and EBU rules, the song must not be published before September 1st and specifically for the National Selection, the submissions must not be commercially available before the Contest. With average viewing […]
Yes, you’ve read the headline right – Malta will no longer be using the Malta Eurovision Song Contest as their National Final. MESC has been in use since 1971, when Malta debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest. Instead this year, the artist representing Malta will be chosen through […]
Yesterday, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Eurovision Reference Group and RTP – the Portuguese broadcaster, met for a debrief after this year’s Contest. Today, KAN, the Israeli broadcaster met with the EBU and the Reference Group to set out a timescale of events in preparation for next […]
Our friends over at Eurovoix have reported earlier today that we could possibly see the 2019 edition. of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Austria – well that’s according to one of the 1999 Contest Producers Araleh Goldfinger. Araleh Goldfinger explained the following after mentioning no government interference […]