Photo: Andreas Papagiannakis
Eurovision 2024: SVT will reportedly not censor sound from the audience in the arena tonight!
Eden Golan faced boos from the audience during a rehearsal, as you have read in one of our previous articles, the Israeli broadcaster Kan filed a formal complaint with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) ahead of tonight’s broadcast.
During rehearsals, where the arena audience was limited, there was both imposed applause and a sound carpet added to the broadcast in the press center. This sound carpet created the illusion of a large audience in the arena, even though it wasn’t the case.
Eden Golan, Photo: Andreas Papagiannakis
In previous years, Russian artists in the Eurovision contest experienced loud protests and boos during their performances. In 2015, the Austrian TV channel that produced Eurovision in Vienna chose to censor the boos by adding fake shouts during the broadcast.
Aftonbladet‘s Tobbe Ek reached out to SVT’s executive producer, Ebba Adielsson, with a detailed question and she clarified the situation:
“As with any major TV production with an audience, we work with broadcast audio to level the playing field for the TV audience. It is only to get as balanced a soundscape as possible for the viewers, we do not censor sound from the audience in the arena. It’s the same principle for all competing entries, including opening and intermediate acts.“
Let’s see what will happen at tonight’s Second Semi Final which is already on-air!
Source: Schlagerbloggen/Tobbe Ek/Aftonbladet
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The decision to allow Israel to compete in this year’s competition was a bad error by the EBU. The Eurovision Song Contest takes place every year to bring people together but this decision has caused the most divisiveness I’ve ever seen. It was leaked after the second semi final that Israel had achieved 40% support in the Italian tele vote and if that is replicated across Europe then Israel will walk away with the trophy to huge boos rather than cheers. If the Israeli entry had any compassion they would withdraw from the competition knowing the depth of feeling and anger it is causing and allow the competition to go ahead in relative peace. The Netherlands entry has already been disqualified for reasons unknown but Joost did interrupt angrily when Israel was being interviewed and if that led to the disqualification then Israel have already claimed their first victim. The show will go ahead but with a feeling of resentment and regret all around Europe.