EBU,through its official website for the contest, announced a while ago what the Dutch media, but also what we had written a few days ago. Rotterdam and Maastricht are the two remaining cities to claim Eurovision 2020 hosting. This two cities had the most completed nomination bid and thus continue the fight for claiming Eurovision […]
Georgia has made its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, and since then, with only one absence (2009), has been a non-stop member of the institution with its better position to be the ninth (2010 and 2011). The procedure followed since then for the representative selection has been shifted from a direct assignment […]
Early in March, Norway first confirmed its participation in Eurovision 2020, while announcing significant changes to the Melodi Grand Prix 2020. In 2020, MGP, Norway’s national final for the selection of the Eurovision country’s representative, will close 60 years of existance, conducting six big shows following the standards of the Swedish Melodifestivalen. The last years […]
The Israeli broadcaster, KAN, has confirmed the country’s participation in Eurovision 2020, making Israel the 25th country that announces its participation. Together with confirmation of participation, KAN also announced how it will choose its representative but also the song. Initially, the selection of the artist will be made another year through the talent show « HaKokhan […]
The favorite of all Greeks, Elena Paparizou, and Nikos Panagiotidis, who formed the Antique, reunited, for the anniversary of the formation of their band, 20 years later, and interpreted all their great successes, at a great concert, yesterday in Gothenburg . In the “Vi som älskar 90 talet” festival (“Who Love’s The90’s”), Elena Paparizou and […]
Despite the fact that 5 Dutch cities have submitted for hosting the contest next year, it is said that only two of them are considered to be the most suitable ones! The Eurovision 2020 Core Team will visit only these two cities in order to decide which of them can fulfil their plans the best. […]
In a yesterday’s article in Irish Mirror, the cost of the Irish participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest was listed. Specifically, RTE spent more than 300,000 euros to participate in this year’s event. The total cost of € 336,617 was increased by 10% from last year’s € 304,088. RTE said the cost increase can […]
Following Luca Hänni’s successful tour at Tel Aviv, Switzerland’s broadcaster SRF confirmed the country’s presence in the upcoming event in May 2020 in the Netherlands. After this year’s great result that brought Switzerland to 4th place, the best that has been achieved since 2005, SRF, decided to follow the same recipe, choosing internally, for the […]
The “Host City” contest has officially stared! 5 Dutch cities have submitted their bid book to Dutch national broadcast in order to host Eurovision 2020. The 10th of July was the deadline and despite the fact that 9 cities had expressed their desire to host the contest, finally only 5 of them officially submitted for […]
BHRT,Bosnia-Herzegovina‘s national broadcaster confirmed on the esctoday.com website that the country will not return to the 65th Eurovision Song Contest. The reason for abstaining, as in previous years, is the large debt of BHRT to the EBU. The country of the former Yugoslavia completes the list of countries, together with Slovakia and Andorra, who have […]
