Monday night the story broke that a member of the Russian Eurovision Jury made a live periscope broadcast of her jury voting during the performances of Douwe Bob from The Netherlands and Iveta Mukuchyan from Armenia – READ HERE. The EBU yesterday late in the evening just under […]
An official statement from the EBU will read the following : After reflection and constructive talks with several participating delegations, the EBU proposed to the Reference Group (the Eurovision Song Contest’s governing body) to take a more liberal approach to the flag policy, which was introduced last week, […]
Well I was about to upload my video interview with 2016 Romania entrant Ovidiu Anton, when the news broke this morning from the EBU that Romania would not be able to compete in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, due to non-payment of debts by the Romanian broadcaster, Televiziunea […]
Today, SBS the Australian broadcaster, announced a deal with the European Broadcasting Union to organise an Asian version of the Eurovision Song Contest. Blink TV, the production partners of SBS, would like to hold an annual Grand Final with up to 20 countries from the Asia-Pacific region. Australia […]
When will Eurovision 2017 take place? We may not know where the contest will be but the preliminary dates have been announced. The Semi-Final One will take place on 16 May, Semi-Final Two on 18 May, and the Grand Final on 20 May, 2017. Why these dates – […]
New Voting Procedure at Eurovision Questioned by San Marino? Many of the Eurovision websites awoke this morning to a communication stating that SMRTV (San Marino National Broadcaster) had concerns regarding the new Eurovision voting procedure that was announced last week and how it was decided and communicated to […]
We all love a cryptic puzzle! Yesterday the official Eurovision Twitter account got people talking. It simply read Change is coming! The Eurovision Song Contest is about to get a lot more exciting! Tomorrow, 10:00 CET on https://t.co/QjxVkuiPNi — Eurovision (@Eurovision) February 17, 2016 So what were the […]
Stockholm is the venue for Eurovision 2016 and today the 43 countries began their journey (aka Marathon) for glory in May as the draw took place today for the Semi Final allocation. This is a ROLLING BLOG beginning at 11:15CET and you can WATCH HERE. You know the […]
Vladislav Yakovlev – The Executive Supervisor for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision Young Dancers and Eurovision Young Musicians – was “fired today” by the EBU. Vladislav took to social media this morning to share this news and to state the reasons why he felt he was fired by […]
I don’t know about you but I just love going ‘Down Under’ but it takes such a long time and so much effort! With all those connecting flights and then battling a camera crew from ‘Nothing to Declare’, I just don’t feel so ‘Lucky Lucky Lucky’ like Kylie […]