In his final act as Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, Jon Ola Sand has declared Ireland the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020! The decision comes as a result of Ireland’s stellar Eurovision record since 1965. Having already won the contest 7 times, Mr Sand […]
So….with preparations well on track in Israel , the host country for this years Eurovision song contest , I thought this might be a good time to look at the fates and fortunes of the host country , in terms of chosen act, final result the year after […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Essential to guarantee freedom of expression and we must be accountable for the way we use it” were the words of the EBU President Jean-Paul Philippot. Philippot gave this speech before the European Commission’s first Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights held at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels on 1 – […]
Greece : ‘OPA’ as the Greek Broadcaster NERIT is ratified as an official EBU member today. What does that mean? Well it means that the Greek Broadcaster is now member of the EBU and is eligible to apply to be at Eurovision 2015 in Vienna. Speaking at the […]
Ever since Jan Ola Sand took a ‘Selfie’ at Eurovision in Copenhagen he has embraced social media like a Maltese Nun embracing an all important Eurovision key change! Love it! So when Jon Ola tweeted last night the number ’39’ he started a wild-fire of speculation. Loving your […]
The Eurovision Reference Group have today confirmed that attempts were made to unfairly influence voting during Eurovision 2013 and as a result new penalties are now to be put in place to deal with such attempts in future. The EBU have confirmed that in their investigation into the […]
DR (Danish National Broadcaster) have announced one definite in the running order for Eurovision 2014. The Host Broadcaster for Eurovision 2014 have made – an expected one has to say – decision to place Norway and Sweden in separate semi finals for Eurovision 2014. Sweden will participate in […]