RTK, the Kosovan nation broadcaster, have broadcast the first Festivali i Këngës – taking place last night, Saturday 28th October. Festivali i Këngës is the intended national selection if Kosovo is allowed to enter the Eurovision Song Contest in the future. La Fazani took victory with “Oj Kosovë”, […]
RTK, the Kosovan nation broadcaster, have announced details of the first Festivali i Këngës. It’ll take place from Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th October. The Kosovan Festivali i Këngës is the intended future national selection, should Kosovo be allowed to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest. Adl […]
RTK, the Kosovar national broadcaster, has confirmed broadcast details ahead of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in Liverpool. RTK will once again be broadcasting both the Semi Finals and Grand Final live. RTK have broadcast the Contest every year since 2016 – with the exception of 2020, when […]
RTK, the Kosovo national broadcaster, have launched ‘Festivalit të Këngës’. ‘Festivalit të Këngës’ is a brand new Song Contest, which RTK hopes will select Eurovision Song Contest participants in the future. The Contest will fulfil RTK’s requirements to offer the public additional cultural and artistic events. RTK aimed […]
As things stand, Kazakhstan and Kosovo will not be invited to take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. Associate Members of the European Broadcasting Union have to be invited to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. ESCXtra received the following statement from the EBU: “At […]
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 […]
Earlier this week, the complete list of Eurovision 2017 participants was published, naming the 43 countries who will take to the stage in Kyiv, Ukraine next May. 43 countries taking part equals the record first set in 2008 in Belgrade, then matched again in Düsseldorf in 2011. This […]
Every year, a number of non-participating countries broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest and this year is no different. As we announced earlier in the week, Logo will be broadcasting the Grand Final LIVE for the first time ever at 15:00 EST. The show will also be streamed via […]
Crimea, may be have your votes please? Last year Swedish TV developed the Eurovision slogan for the contest in Malmo, “We Are One” which aimed to portray Europe as a united entity, emphasising diversity and multiculturalism. Except Europe really isn’t one; Europe is a fractured construct, economically, […]