The BBC will re-broadcast Eurovision 1974 on April 7!
The BBC, the public broadcaster of the United Kingdom, hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, on behalf of Ukraine, as the winner, was not able to host on home soil. However this was not the first time that the United Kingdom has done so.
In the now long gone 1973, Luxembourg wins the Contest for the second time in a row and refuses to host Eurovision again, in such a short time. The BBC steps in and hosts one of the most iconic contests, in Brighton in 1974, and the rest is history!
In that Contest, Sweden managed to get their first win with ABBA and the song “Waterloo”:
So, in order to commemorate the 50 years from that Contest, the BBC decided to broadcast Eurovision 1974 once again on Saturday, April 7 just one day after the anniversary (Eurovision 1974 took place on April 6).
Right before the broadcast, there will be a small 10 minute introductory, hosted by Hannah Waddingham (host of Eurovision 2023), speaking about the 1974 contest and its new high-scaled version!
Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was hosted by Katie Boyle, who hosted the contest for the fourth time, and featured some later wolrd-famous artists:
- Olivia Newton John representing the United Kingdom and getting 4th place
- Gigliola Cinquetti representing Italy for the second time after her win in 1964, getting 2nd place
- Marinella representing Greece on their first ever participation in the Contest
- and of course ABBA who won the contest in the name of Sweden
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Source: BBC
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BBC Four are going to repeat the BBC edition on the 9th April 2024 which only becomes stereo when each contestant is on. All other background music (including the Eurovision Song Contest), the scoring and the sound in The Dome in general will all be mono.
The international version with no commentator is the exact opposite. Everything (and I mean everything) is in stereo right from beginning to the very end. You get such a better atmosphere of what it was like in The Dome that night when it’s all in stereo. Unless they can extract David Vine’s voice and dub it over the stereo international version.