Greece: The ERT’s budget for Eurovision 2023!

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Today, the budget of Greece’s participation in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest was posted in cooperation of ERT and the Greek Ministry of Digital Goverance. The Greek National Broadcaster is asked to pay 227,365 Euros for all the expenses to participate in this year’s contest.

Although, an additional 150,000 Euros should be added to the amount, which are the participation fee for this year’s competition. Therefore, the total amount that ERT will pay for Eurovision 2023 is 377,000 Euros. In a separate fund, an amount of 12,000 Euros was approved in the previous days for the rental of the two TV commentators.

In total, the final amount for Greece’s budget comes to 399,000 euros, which is slightly lower compered to the budget of the National Broadcaster the past two participations. This seems very reasonable since there are no longer restrictions due to the pandemic with the hotel rooms and the recording of the “live on tape” video.

You can find the relevant decision in Greek here

Down bellow, you can watch EurovsionFun’s reaction for this year’s Greek entry:

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Eurovision 2023: Watch tonight our poll results for the two semi-finals!

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Today is the first station of our Poll, since after the your voting, the results follow, which will be announced tonight through a live premiere on the Douze Points YouTube channel.

More than 8,200 individual votes were submitted in the two semi-finals and now it’s time to announce the 20 countries that will advance to the grand final. For about 10 days you voted for your top ten countries in each semi-final. As in Eurovision, also in our simulation 100% of the result was determined based on your own vote, since now only the public votes count in the semi-finals.

Tonight at 20:00 CET, you will be able to watch through the video below the ten countries that will qualify from the first semi-final.

Immediately afterwards, at 20:05 CET, you will be able to see the results of the second semi-final in the video below.

The recap and the start of the voting for the Grand Final follows, where 50% of the result will be determined based on your own voting and the rest 50% by the authors of Eurovisionfun.
Until then you can recall the entries vying for qualification below:

Which countries do you think will qualify?

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Greece: Listen to “What They Say” live for the first time!

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The 16-year-old Victor Vernicos, this year‘s representative of Greece in Eurovision 2023, was a guest on a podcast of the Streamee platform, where he performed for the first time live “What They Say“, in an acoustic version.

During the discussion, Victor, among other things, referred to his stage appearance in Liverpool. The goal of Victor and his team is to be able to visualize the truthfulness of the song, so that the emotion caused by “What They Say“ can be passed on to the audience.

We remind you that Greece and Victor will compete in the 2nd semi-final on 11May and the order of appearance is number 8.

Watch our reaction video on Greece’s participation in the contest:

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Eurovision 2023: The running order of the semifinals has been revealed!

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With a month and a half left for the first semifinal of Eurovision 2023 on May 9, the EBU today announced the order of appearance of the songs in the semifinals.

The running order was determined by the EBU in collaboration with the British organizers, taking into account where each country was drawn to appear (first or second half), but also in such a way that the show is more interesting.

So, through the official Eurovision channel on YouTube, the official running order of the songs in the semifinals of this year’s contest was announced a few minutes ago.

Running Order

First Semifinal – May 9

  1. Norway
  2. Malta
  3. Serbia
  4. Latvia
  5. Portugal
  6. Ireland
  7. Croatia
  8. Switzerland
  9. Israel
  10. Moldova
  11. Sweden
  12. Azerbaijan
  13. Czechia
  14. Netherlands
  15. Finland

Second Semifinal – May 11

  1. Denmark
  2. Armenia
  3. Romania
  4. Estonia
  5. Belgium
  6. Cyprus
  7. Iceland
  8. Greece
  9. Poland
  10. Slovenia
  11. Georgia
  12. San Marino
  13. Austria
  14. Albania
  15. Lithuania
  16. Australia

The analyzes of the fans and not only for a few minutes have been on fire, since the theories based on the prehistory of the countries in the contest, are a first picture of how passable is the qualification to the final or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions about who will advance to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Liverpool early…

Turin will host the 67th Eurovision Song Contest from May 9th to 13th at the Liverpool Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organizers is “The Sound of Beauty”.

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Greece: “What They Say” by Victor Vernicos has over 500.000 views!

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“What They Say“, the song with which the 16-year-old talented artist Victor Vernicos will represent Greece at this year‘s Eurovision Song Contest, is now available in digital music stores, a few days after the premiere of the music video that was received with great enthusiasm!

“What They Say“, with music and lyrics by Victor himself, released by Panik Records, received flattering comments from the audience, while the music video became a top trend on YouTube in almost 24 hours and it counts over 500,000 views in total in a few days.

The video, directed by PickCodes, visually accompanies the voice of the new generation, who creates, dreams and dares. At the same time, like the song, it sends a strong message of optimism, that “together” and “sharing” make us strong!

Watch the video-clip of the Greek entry:

Source: www.protothema.gr

Greece: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2023 Entry “What They Say”!

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Greece’s song for Eurovision 2023, by Victor Vernicos, was released a few days ago with the title “What They Say”!

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the official video clip of the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Apostolos, Paschalis, Stella and Apostolis in a Reaction video with detailed commentary on Greece‘s participation, for 2023!

Video editing: @xristosrpk

You can watch it in the video below:

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Greece: Listen to “What They Say” by Victor Vernicos!

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The moment that every Greek eurofan waited for, is finally here! “What They Say”, Greece’s song for Eurovision 2023, by Victor Vernicos, was released just a while ago!

The video clip of“What They Say” premiered through the ERT’s show “Dio sti 1”. After the release of the videoclip on “Dio sti 1”, the song was directly available on the ERTflix platform. Later it was available on every music platform, while the videoclip can be watched on ERT’s YouTube account.

You can watch it in the video below:

Who is Victor Vernicos?

Victor Vernicos is a proposal of PANIK Records. As he mentioned the theme of his participation is human anxiety, while he characterized his song as a festive, atmospheric ballad.

Victor has been involved in music since he was 4 years old. He has taken vocal and guitar lessons, while he has also attended music technology seminars.

In 2021 he released his first song in which he wrote music, lyrics but also produced it himself. At the moment he is taking vocal and performance lessons with Nina Lotsari.

What do we know about Victor Vernicos’ song?

As Victor Vernicos told us, in an exclusive interview back in autumn, his song is an English ballad and can be characterized as emotional but also energetic.

The music video was directed by ERT Director, Giannis Georgioudakis. Kostas Kalimeris, Steve Sovolos and vaggelis Gialamas, have all taken part in the production of the song.

The stage director of Greece for Eurovision 2023, will be Konstantinos Rigos. This will be his third time in the contest, having previously directed Loukas Yiorkas (Greece 2011) and Eleftheria Eleftheriou (Greece 2012).

What do you think about the Greek song for Eurovision 2023? Write us in the comments below!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Greek participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!

Greece: Another postpone for “What They Say”?

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Due to new information we have received, and despite the fact that the Greek channel announced in the morning TV show “Πρωίαν σε είδον, τήν Μεσημβρίαν”, the Greek entry might not be released tommorow.

A new update we have received from ERT says that it is very likely to have a new postpone of “What They Say” and that the video clip will most likely be released in a few days.

Kostas Kalimeris, Steve Sovolos and Vangelis Yialamas have participated in the production of the track.

The stage director of the Greek entry will be Konstantinos Rigos, who has directed the Greek entries in Eurovision 2011 and 2012.

We are looking forward with great anticipation to the reveal of the Greek entry in Eurovision 2023!

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Greece: Victor Vernicos’s entry will be revealed tomorrow!

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As it was announced in ERT’s tv show “Proian Se Eidos, Tin Mesimbrian”, the song that will represent Greece in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest will be officially released tomorrow, March 10, 2023.

Victor Vernicos‘ “What They Say” will be released by ERT in its final version, along with the music video, directed by PickCodes.

Kostas Kalimeris, Steve Sovolos and Vangelis Yialamas have participated in the production of the track.

The stage director of the Greek entry will be Konstantinos Rigos, who has directed the Greek entries in Eurovision 2011 and 2012.

We are looking forward with great anticipation to the reveal of the Greek entry in Eurovision 2023!

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Greece: In May, the final resolution of the dispute between Melissa and ERT!

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In view of the lack of an insurance right, in connection with the suffocating time frames, the court decided not to grant a temporary injunction and that Melissa Mantzoukis’ dispute with ERT be resolved in May in the regular action.

What has actually happened is that a temporary solution to the dispute cannot be given, due to the deadlines that no longer exist. Therefore, it was not possible to grant the side of Melissa Mantzoukis a temporary injunction and the solution to the issue that has arisen will be given by the regular court in May with the lawsuit.

This practically means that there is no longer any issue with the Greek participation, since any decision that will justify or not Melissa Mantzoukis will be issued after the end of the competition.

Of course, Eurovisionfun will inform you of any additional developments!

Stay tuned here!