“Of Course I’m pissed” were the comments from Eurovision song contests chief executive Jon Ola Sand who is investigating the largest voting scandal in the history of the competition – according to Swedish media Aftonbladet. Breaking his silence on the issue, Jon Ola Sand spoke to the Swedish News […]
The EBU are set to drop their investigation into vote-buying allegations at Eurovision 2013, according to Swedish Media outlet Aftonbladet. Lithuanian media 15.min had posted an alleged video showing an attempt to purchase tele votes for Azerbaijan at this year’s Eurovision. Just a few weeks ago Eurovision Supervisor […]
According to Kazakhstan Media Channels (KazMedia Center) the country is negotiating membership of the European Broadcasting Union, with the goal of participating at Eurovision 2014. There have been several factors that the national broadcaster in Kazakhstan has worked to comply with, in order to gain EBU membership. KazMedia […]
Today it was announced that the Greek National Broadcaster ERT was being closed down with immediate effect from midnight, with the loss of 2,650 permanent staff members and a further 250 short-term employers. Simos Kedikoglou (A Greek Government Spokesman) allegedly described ERT, as a “modern-day scandal” and “a unique […]
Just after Eurovision 2013 has been completed, several countries have already confirmed their attendance in Denmark for Eurovision 2014. So far we have the following details courtesy of our friends at 12Points.tv Nordic Participation 2014 Denmark – Well obviously as they are hosting the event they will be […]
In an interview with CNN France – UK Eurovision Contestant Bonnie Tyler has said on video ” “I heard the Russians complain: why you did not give ten points for which we paid? ” This is fuel to the fire over the Eurovision Scandal that just will not go away […]
Late last night the EBU decided to release the Jury and Public Split votes of the Eurovision Contest 2013. First note is that these figures were average rankings for every country in both jury and televoting.. Ranking the countries based on these average rankings mean very little, because they include […]
The Grand Final of Eurovision 2013 had not even taken place last Saturday before a report by a Lithuanian news agency claimed they had video footage of Azeri officials trying to buy televotes in Lithuania. This was followed up by claims that due to irregularities in the voting […]
Östgruppens (Swedish Human Rights Organisation) Chairman – Martin Uggla – is calling SVT to withdraw Belarus from Eurovision 2013. The “We Are One” concept of Eurovision 2013 is being called into question by the organisation. Uggla is claiming that the Belarus National Television Broadcaster is part of the […]
(Photograph courtesy of Нет версии с бо́льшим разрешением) At the end of last year Swiss band “Heilsarmee” won the National Eurovision Selection in Switzerland with the song “You and Me”. Following their victory there were doubts on whether they could enter the Eurovision Song Contest as “Heilsarmee” as […]