Hungary: Kati Wolf and AWS disagree over Eurovision withdrawal

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As we informed you in our previous article, Hungary will not participate in Eurovision 2020. The “A Dal” regulations, used since 2012 as Hungary’s national final for Eurovision, did not mention the Eurovision contest, and part of the regulations were in breach of EBU regulations, which meant that the “A Dal 2020” would have nothing to do with the country’s participation in Eurovision. Finally, it was not on the official list of the EBU, with the countries to take part in Rotterdam.

At the same time, people around the world have reported from major news agencies (Independent, BBC, The Guardian, etc.) that the real reason for Hungary’s withdrawal from the competition is its excessive gay element, according to the country’s government, which has been disputed by itself.

Domestic reactions

Many were the domestic artists in Hungary, who opposed the decision of their country’s public broadcaster.

In an interview on RTL channel, the country’s representative  in 2011, Kati Wolf, said that she has gained something from her participation in Eurovision. Specifically, it states:

“I have won a lot of fans thanks to Eurovision. Since joining Eurovision in 2011, I’ve been traveling and appearing all over Europe and I think we need to go, make an appearance and not sit at home”

Finally, she did not omit to mention what’s he would like to not only participate in A Dal but to represent Hungary again in Eurovision!

Kati Wolf represented her country in 2011 with the song “What About My Dreams”, where she finished 22nd with 53 points.

AWS represented Hungary at Eurovision 2018. The band’s leader, Örs Siklós, also commented on Hungary’s non-participation in Eurovision 2020.

“Every country is trying to send in an artist who is a little different and stands out, either in his music, appearance and work or in his style. That’s what differentiated us from the rest, and it was so amazing to see Eurovision fans, who are usually not familiar with metal music, lure us in and love our music. And I think we’ve gained a lot from our participation in Eurovision. It is very sad that Hungary will not participate in the next Eurovision. Honestly, I wasn’t attending the competition before we got in, but this year I was watching everything and supporting Joci”

AWS, with the song “Viszlát nyár”, placed Hungary 21st with 93 points.

This is the fourth time Hungary has withdrawn from the Eurovision contest. The first time was in 1999, when sustained for six years. It returned in 2005, abstained in 2006 in Athens and returned the following year. It last absence was in 2010, when for financial reasons the country preferred to stay away.

Source: escbubble

Eurostars:Sergey’s back again?

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Last Tuesday “Victoria” music awards took place in Kremlin and among all the famous Russian stars, Sergey Lazarev was there as well. During red carpet, the artist was asked by dni.ru if he still wants to take revenge and bring ESC back to Russia!

“I can still impress, I have something to show. I have many qualities, including musical ones, which I maybe didn’t demonstrate at competitions in 2016 and 2019,” Sergey smiled. “I don’t exclude the possibility of going to Eurovision once again, but I declare with all responsibility: this will definitely not happen in 2020.”

As for now, Sergey is getting ready for a new grand show and its premiere is scheduled for the spring of 2021.

Next year, Channel One will be in charge of the selection of the participant for the competition. As always there are rumors that Alexander Panayotov, Olga Buzova or Zivert can represent Russia. But Sergey has a different point of view.

“In my opinion, should take part a new name, a new artist. I wouldn’t like to point out someone specifically, so not to be accused of partiality.”

Would you like to see Sergey again to Eurovision stage?

Albania: Candidate songs to be unveiled on 9 December | Foureira, Mahmood, Giusy Ferreri on Fik stage

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A short while ago, Albanian public broadcaster announced that the 20 songs participating in the 2019 Festivali i Song will be announced on Monday, December 9th.

The 20 candidates for the Festivali i Kenges to claim the Rotterdam ticket are:

1. Albrei Hadergjonaj
2. Aldo White
3. Arilena Ara
4. Bojken Lako
5. Devis Xherah
6. Eli Fara & Stress
7. Elvana Gjata
8. The Era of Russia
9. Gena
10. Genc Tukiqi
11. Kanita Suma
12. Kamela Islamaj
13. Castro Zizo
14. Olta Boka
15. Renis Gjoka
16. Robert Berisha
17. Sara Bajraktari
18. Tiri Gjoci
19. Valon Shehu
20. Wendi Mancaku

Interval Acts by favourite Eurostars

A few days ago, we informed you that explosive Eleni Foureira will make her appearance at FiK 2019.The news now seems to be confirmed with the sexy singer getting ready to set fire to the stage once again.

He may not have won this year’s Contest, but he made the most success of any artist. The reason for Mahmood to land on the FiK stage for a strong appearance.

Finally, a great Italian artist also announces this in Albania’s largest festival.

Guisy Ferreri who has taken part in San Remo in the past, will also come to the FiK stage to impress us once again with her distinctive voice.

The two FiK semifinals will take place on December 19th and 20th, while the Grand Final, where we will also learn Albania’s 17th representative at the Eurovision Song Contest, will take place on December 22nd. Alketa Vejsiu will be the host of the Festivali i Kenges 58.

 

Albania: Three-member International Panel at FiK 2019

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In a few days we will be able to listen to the songs competing at Festivali i Kenges 58 to claim Albanian representation at Eurovision 2020. An important innovation for this year’s FiK is the introduction of an international jury, next to the classic jury. Among the 3 members of the international committee a popular and beloved Greek creator will be!

The results at Festivali i Kenges with some minor variations are determined each year by a special jury comprising people from the home music scene. This year, RTSH, having managed to get very popular contestants, decided to have an international jury. This was recently confirmed by a private Albanian TV station, though you first read it on EurovisionFun!

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As we have revealed to you, a Greek creator who has a lot to do with the Eurovision contest  will be at the Festivali i Kenges international committee and will add special interest along with Eleni Foureira as a guest at this year’s event for all of us Greeks.

We remind you that the 20 candidates for the Festivali i Kenges to claim the Rotterdam ticket are:

1. Albrei Hadergjonaj
2. Aldo White
3. Arilena Ara
4. Bojken Lako
5. Devis Xherah
6. Eli Fara & Stress
7. Elvana Gjata
8. The Era of Russia
9. Gena
10. Genc Tukiqi
11. Kanita Suma
12. Kamela Islamaj
13. Castro Zizo
14. Olta Boka
15. Renis Gjoka
16. Robert Berisha
17. Sara Bajraktari
18. Tiri Gjoci
19. Valon Shehu
20. Wendi Mancaku

The Festivali i Kenges 58, will take place in Tirana on December 19, 20 and 22, and the winner will represent Albania at the 65th Eurovision Song Contest in May in Rotterdam.

Italy: €40 million in advertising revenue for Sanremo 2020 broadcasts

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RAI and the new artistic director of the Sanremo Festival, Amadeus, are in a fever pitch to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the historic music festival. As the Italian public television announced recently, the advertising time during the 5-day broadcast of the Sanremo 2020 has already been sold, for a record price of 40 million Euros!

The advertising time during the broadcasts of the 70th Sanremo Italian Song Festival costs approx. 12.000 per second! Of course the exclusive rights of Sanremo are reserved by RAI, which proves that a public television can be both competitive, commercial, and quality!

Advertising time has been sold for all five nights of the festival. RAI earns a record $ 40 million and is the most expensive television time in the country!

The Mediterranean RAI exemplifies in other similar public TVs that when you invest somewhere over time, producing a good result, then you have a program, but you also have income.

We remind you that the 20 artists of the Campioni category of the Sanremo 2020 will be announced in a special show by Amadeus on January 6th. The 70th Sanremo Song Festival will take place at Teatro Ariston in the small town of Liguria, San Remo, from February 4 to February 8, 2020.

Source: RAI

Greece: Working Group composition not to be announced soon| The way Greek participation will be selected! EXCLUSIVE

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The announcement of the ERT working group was widely expected this week, following reports that confirmed it. In the end, this has not happened and will not be done until at least the final details of the procedure to be followed by ERT for the selection of the greek representative at Eurovision 2020 will be settled.

The committee may not have been announced, but that does not mean that ERT is not preparing for its next involvement. It has already held a number of formal and informal meetings over the past period and appears to have come up with the procedure to choose this year’s representative.

An open national final is not going to take place as we have written for months, since neither the time nor the ability to organize something worthwhile would have been possible. What qualifies is an internal choice. Indeed, it is very likely that there will be some kind of open invitation to interested artists and creators. The working group, which this year will be a 6-member group, in which the composer Dimitris Papadimitriou will again participate, will be invited to propose to the Board of Directors the best of the proposals. Then the Board of Directors. whether or not to approve the proposal of the working group.

The working group will be announced in the coming days (with no announcement coming next week), after all the details of the selection process have been settled and decided. In addition,  these days the head of the Greek Delegation  and International Relations Manager, Maria Koufopoulou, is in Geneva, in the General Assembly of the EBU.

Anyone in a hurry should think that the relevant  announcement last year was made on 10 January. The intention of the new ERT administration is to do everything possible for Greece to be at the top 10 of the Eurovision 2020 rankings and we do not hide that we are optimistic that it will do so!

France:New Head of Delegation the France TV’s entertainment program director

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Shortly after announcing Steven Clerima‘s resignation as head of the French Delegation at Eurovision song contest, France TV lost no time, appointing Alexandra Redde,  as the new Head.

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The new Head of Delegation has been a senior executive at France TV for years, having even recently spent time as the organization’s entertainment director. The selection of an executive from France TV’s top management post to the position of head of delegation indicates how important French public television now attaches to the contest.

We are now eagerly awaiting the final announcements of France on how to choose to participate in Eurovision 2020!

France: Head of Delegation resigned

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Eurovision 2020 will find many countries with new delegation chiefs, after Steven Clerima, head of the French delegation in the contest, announced his resignation.

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Steven Clerima has been a member of France’s Eurovision delegations for the past four years. Ever since then, Amir with “J’ai cherché” has rekindled French interest in the competition. He took over as head of delegation last year after succeeding Edoardo Grassi. He was in fact the Head of Delegation of France to Eurovision 2019 and Junior Eurovision 2018 and 2019.

This change comes at a time when there are reports in the French press about changing the country’s approach to public television in how to opt in, with the most likely scenarios being direct assignment or a small national final with 3 or 4 songs.

Germany: New Head of Delegation

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A series of changes to the country chiefs of Delegations in the Eurovision Song Contest, with Germany taking the lead. The country’s public broadcaster journalist Alexandra Wolfslast has been in charge of the German delegation since December 1st.

Alexandra Wolfslast will succeed Christoph Pellander, who has quit his job on German public television. Pellander was Germany’s head of delegation in the last two contests, leading his country to a fourth and one penultimate position.

For 2020,Germany trusted the production company Digame to find the right song, but also the performer who will feel the competition and be higher on the scoreboard than  S! Sters in Tel Aviv.

So far there has been no public announcement on the evolution of the option, although a concept similar to the one used by Switzerland this year is expected to be used. A closed choice, that is, with the only announcement of the winner.

Source: esc-kompakt

Eurovision 2019: On December 12 the release of the 1st set of tickets

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New details about Eurovision 2020 organising  has revealed  today, with EBU informing Eurofans about the details of the contest tickets. The first of three waves of tickets for the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will begin on Thursday, December 12th, 12:00 pm CET. The 2nd and 3rd wave will take place in late January and mid March respectively. Exact dates are expected to be announced at later time.

Types of tickets
-Standing positions (within the arena)
-Seats (1st and 2nd level)
-‘Limited View Positions
-Seats for people with reduced mobility and their attendants

Ticket prices
The 9 shows for which tickets are scheduled are the following:

-11/05/2020 – 1st Semifinal – Jury Show (21:00 CET)
-12/05 / 2020– 1st Semifinal – Family Show (15:00 CET)
-12/05/2020 – Semi-final 1 – Live Show (21:00 CET)
-13/05/2020 – 2nd Semifinal – Jury Show (21:00 CET)
-14/05/2020 – 2nd Semifinal – Family Show (15:00 CET)
-14/05/2020 – Semi-final 2 – Live show (21:00 CET)
-15/05/2020 – Grand Final – Jury Show (21:00 CET)
-16/05/2020 – Grand Final – Family Show (15:00 CET)
-16/05/2020 – Grand Final – Live Show (21:00 CET)

Ticket prices are listed in the following two tables and range between € 18.50 and € 248.50:

Semifinals

Grand Final

Disposal information

When tickets go on sale, interested shoppers will have to wait in line at random in the waiting list. Those who will visit the site after the 12pm,the release time, will be automatically placed at the end of the waiting list. Each person is entitled to receive up to 4 tickets, for which he / she must provide details of their owners. The details will be disclosed as relevant inspections are expected at the venue in order to avoid black market ticketing.

EBU recommends that tickets be purchased through their official distribution providers, Paylogic and TicketSwap.

The ESC 2020 venue, Rotterdam Ahoy, has a capacity of about 15,000 spectators, but that number will surely decrease as the construction of the stage and the Green Room reduce the total arena capacity. The exact number of tickets to be released has not yet been determined, as it will depend on how much space they will occupy and will require the final release of the stage and the Green Room.

The Eurovision 2020 song contest is scheduled for May 12, 14 and 16 in Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

source: eurovision.tv