RTP has just announced that Portugal will not be taking part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This will be the fifth absence of Portugal, three of them in contests held in Sweden! So what are the reasons behind the RTP’s decision? Read more
LRT, the Lithuanian broadcaster, opened today the submission period for this year’s national selection. Eurovizijos Dainų Konkursą 2016 will be the format Lithuania will be using for selecting their representative for the 61st Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. Submissions for the competition are open now and will close on 1st December. Read more
Next year Iceland celebrates 30 years in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcaster RUV confirmed yesterday that they will once again use Söngvakeppnin as the national final to select their participant for Eurovision 2016. Submissions for the competition are open now and will close on 2nd of November. Read more
Less than two months left for the 2015 edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Slovenia and the Netherlands selected their participant this weekend through the process of a national final, while San Marino became the 16th country which has confirmed its participation in the 13th Junior Eurovision in Bulgaria, Sofia. Read more
Rai has confirmed that the Sanremo 2016 winner will have the right to go to the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm for Italy. Otherwise Rai will select someone else who is willing to go to Stockholm. Also, Eurovision moves from Rai 2 channel to Rai1 for the first time since 1991 when Italy hosted the… Read more
Only a day after the United Kingdom announced their open call for songs, news came from another Big 5 country. France announced their open call for songs, which starts now and ends on the 31st of October. Their winner will be chosen by an internal committee from France Télévisions. Read more
After it’s announcement last week that Cyprus will take part in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, the broadcaster already is planning their next steps. Due to lack of time and money it seems they will internally select the artist, and perhaps also the composer who will represent the Mediterranean island in Stockholm. Read more
CyBC, the Cypriot national broadcaster, has confirmed with an official announcement that the mediterranean island will participate at the forthcoming 2016 Eurovision Song Contest although it isn’t sure yet that the Song Project format returns. Read more
After the official announcement through ERT two weeks ago that Greece will participate in the next Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, preparations have already started. ERT2, which is the channel dedicated to culture, is likely to transmit both the Greek Final and the Eurovision Final and Semi-Finals. Read more
Despite the big financial and political crisis in Greece and the general elections coming in mid September, ERT’s board decided in their last meeting to host the selection for the 61st Eurovision Song Contest. This seems to end the cooperation NERIT (the previous state broadcaster) had with other private TV stations, to organise the Greek… Read more
The 2015 edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest is approaching. After Albania as the first country selected their participant, this weekend two more countries picked their songs. Through the process of national final, Belarus and Ukraine selected their entries to this year’s Junior contest, while Serbia confirmed its participation. Read more
Barrice is a young Greek singer (of Russian origin) who became famous through his participation in the Greek final this year with the song Ela (Come). Despite the fact he didn’t win the ticket to go to Vienna, he gained a lot of fans and his latest single, Zitima Zois kai Thanatou (Matter of Life… Read more
In an interview given today to Cypriot newspaper Fileleftheros, the Vice President of CyBC seemed to confirm participation for the island in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. He also revealed that the method they will use again will be the Eurovision Song Project, the same format they used for selecting their representative at Vienna. Read more
After some controversial rumours, RAI has finally confirmed the Italian participation in the Junior Eurovision, which will be held on November 21st, in Sofia. On September 12th, through a special gala-concert named Ti Lascio Una Canzone, RAI will choose the Italian representative as they did last year. Read more
The Armenian national broadcaster ARM TV announced that, like they have done since 2007, they will be taking part in this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, too. Armenia thus brings the number of confirmed countries so far to 10. It was also announced that their representative will be an internal choice of the broadcaster itself. Read more
The 11th of June marks two years since the violent padlock and black screens that happened when Greek broadcaster ERT was closed down. The same date has been chosen by the Greek government to relaunch ERT as the official national broadcaster. At 6 o’clock on Thursday morning, NERIT will be history. Read more
It may have been 10 days since the end of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest but it is still intensely discussed both in Greece and in Cyprus that the most predictable 12 points between those two countries were not exchanged. The issue was even discussed among politicians of the two countries, who wondered what went wrong… Read more
Panagiotis Koufogiannis came second in this year’s Cypriot national final after leading in the televoting, but missing first position due to the jury vote. Panagiotis is known in the Greek music scene not only because of his participation in The Voice of Greece and Cyprus’ Song Project (the country’s national Eurovision selection) but also for… Read more
Željko Joksimović has spoken out against the current voting system which he believes Serbia suffered for in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The song finished 10th – and what he is suggesting wouldn’t have made any difference. Read more
Just like for the Eurovision Song Contest, Albania became the first country that selected their artist and song for the Junior Eurovision 2015. Mishela Rapo will fly the Albanian flag in Sofia on the 21st of November with her African influenced song. Read more
The 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna marked an important drop in NERIT’s TV ratings. Despite this being a fall, for the 14th year in a row the Greek national broadcaster saw the TV ratings for Europe’s favourite music competition be over 50% of the audience last Saturday. Specifically, an average of 53,9% of Greek… Read more
Although the Bulgarian broadcaster BNT, did not participate in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, we do have the points as they might have been had they taken part. The result, which is combined of public as well as jury, gives 12 points to Italy. Read more
To the common viewer, the running order is nothing more than the order in which each country performs their entry. However, to a Eurovision fan, it is something more. So does the running order influence the results? I’ll be focusing on the contest since 2004 for two reasons. Firstly, because, in that particular year, a… Read more
This year’s Eurovision participants from Finland, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, have got their own stamp in Finland. A few days ago the Finnish postal service released a new series of postage stamps, and one of the stamps shows this year’s representatives in Eurovision, the four-piece punk band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. Since they won the national final… Read more
In this gallery you will find photos from the press conferences and meet and greets after the first rehearsals of Israel, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Cyprus, Slovenia and Poland at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
It has been mentioned by other media that Torino will host the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in case of an Italian win by Il Volo on Saturday the 23rd of May. Italian Head of Delegation however says this is pure fantasy. Read more