The hosts for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 have been announced as Oleksandr Skichko, Volodymyr Ostapchuk, and Timur Miroshnychenko. The appointment marks the first time in the history of the contest that the event will be hosted by three men; all of whom are familiar faces on Ukrainian television. The Eurovision Song Contest has had…
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Kyiv Host City for Eurovision 2017
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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) has today revealed that the city chosen to host the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in 2017 is Kyiv. A spokesperson explained that the Ukrainian capital previously hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 as well as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest…
Łukasz Dyczko Wins Eurovision Young Musicians Competition
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Poland’s Łukasz Dyczko has been named the winner of the 18th prestigious Eurovision Young Musicians competition, 2016. The biennial competition, organised by the same team behind The Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU, was hosted by broadcasters WDR at Cologne’s Roncalliplatz. After Łukasz performed his consummate rendition of the piece written by André Waignein, he said…
Semi-Final order revealed for Eurovision 2016
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The running order of the Semi-Finals of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest has been unveiled by Host Broadcaster SVT. Following the same format that has been in place since 2013, producers decided the running order to ensure that each song stands out and to create a more exciting television show. The decision was approved by…
Eurovision Voting Overhauled
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The voting in the Eurovision Song Contest is set to be radically transformed in 2016. In previous years the results of the professional juries and viewers have been presented as a combined result, each accounting for 50 percent of the final score. From 2016, the professional juries and televoters from each country will each award…
BBC Unveils Eurovision Song Search
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The BBC has announced its biggest ever Eurovision song search to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. “This year really will be the biggest song search for Eurovision the BBC has ever undertaken. With input from key industry figures and fan associations, plus with the public having the final say, we…
1 billion views for Eurovision YouTube Channel
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The official YouTube channel of the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube.com/eurovision has recently gathered more than 1 billion views. “We are very proud to have hit this milestone just before the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna,” says Jon Ola Sand, Executive Supervisor on behalf of the EBU. “We are very grateful for the hard work…
Vienna to host Eurovision 2015
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The European Broadcasting Union and Austrian broadcaster ORF have announced that Vienna has been chosen to host the world’s biggest entertainment show Eurovision in 2015. An ORF spokesman explained that several cities where given the opportunity to host Eurovision and in the final round it came down Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck. “Vienna is the city…