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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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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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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!

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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: Victor Vernicos’s entry will be revealed on March 6! | EXCLUSIVE

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According to our exclusive information, the song that will represent Greece in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest will be officially released next Monday, March 6, 2023.

Victor Vernicos‘ “What They Say” will be released by ERT in its final version, along with the music video. The shooting of the music video, which will be directed by ERT director Yannis Georgioudakis, will take place in the next 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 next Monday!

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BREAKING NEWS: Within the week, Melissa Mantzoukis will proceed with all legal means against ERT

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A while ago, the lawyer of Melissa Mantzoukis, Christos Zotiadis, was invited to a morning show on the Greek Broadcaster “SKAI”.

Initially, he mentioned that the following week Melissa will proceed with all legal actions against ERT about the selection process regarding Greece’s representative for Eurovision 2023. Due to unstable connection with the show, he only referred to Maria’s Kozakou interview, thanking her about the confession regarding the procedure of the jury voting. ERT had mentioned via extrajudicial document to Melissa earlier that the voting was held as it was announced.

 

Based on what Maria Kozakou has told, the points of the expert jury isn’t equal to 49,4% … They would have given the gold, silver and bronze metal to whoever they wanted. How is possible that among three contestants, one of them gets ranked fifth?

 

Christos Zotiadis thinks that everything Maria Kozakou has told is the reason that ERT has not announced the detailed results of the expert jury despite his persistent requests. Nevertheless, ERT continues not to respond with the detailed results, but mentioning that the voting proceedings are available for pickup.

Here is the full interview in Greek:

Everything that Maria Kozakou told and the response of Melissa Mantzoukis

Maria Kozakou (a member of the expert jury of ERT for the selection process) in her interview mentioned that:

Liar, the song that didn’t manage to go to Eurovision, in the last voting procedure didn’t get 8 points from the seven jurors. As people think, in the last jury voting among the 3 songs, we invited them for an interview and they presented us their ideas about their vision regarding their stage presence in Liverpool…Why didn’t we give 12, 10 and 8 points?  The demoscopic jury ranked the songs from 4 to 12 points, so we had the same amount of points to give as the demoscopic jury. Finally, some songs got 12 points, some 10 and others 6 points. That why the last place didn’t concentrate the minimal points, this is simple mathematics…

 

Here is the full interview in Greek:

 

Melissa responded to what Maria Kozakou said via story in her Instagram page:

Thank you miss Maria Kozakou for finally telling the truth. In every mail and extrajudicial document that have been sent, ERT persists on the exact opposite than what you admitted!

 

 

We expect the following week updates on the topic!

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Greece: These are the detailed results of the two juries for Eurovision 2023!

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The official detailed results of Greek selection for Eurovision 2023 have been published in a TV Moring show, “Super Katerina” by the laywer of one of the finalists, Melissa’s Mantzouki.

The ERT jury decided on the top three and held meetings with the team of the three artists about their perfomance, video clip ideas and promotion of the song. After that, the jury submitted their final vote on the three songs.

On the other hand, we remind you that the demographic jury, 70 people who where drawn among 3.000, voted between the 7 songs. 25 of the members were at the age group of 18-24, 20 at the agre group 25-34, 15 members in the group 35-44 and just 10 members on the age group of 45+.

The ERT jury who voted is:

  • Δημήτρης Παπαδημητρίου, music composer – Presented
  • Μαρία Κοζάκου, commentator of Greek Deligation
  • Φώτης Απέργης, ERT radio director
  • Πέτρος Αδάμ, music producer
  • Γιάννης Πετρίδης, music producer
  • Κωνσταντίνος Μπουρούνης, responsible for ERT youth programms
  • Λεωνίδας Αντωνόπουλος, journalist and music composer

The votes of Greek demographic jury among the three contestants were the 50,6% of the results, while the other 49,4% was determined by the Jury voting.

The final results are:

Demographic Public Jury of 70 people:

  1. Melissa Mantzoukis– Liar 693 votes
  2. Victor Vernicos– What they say 509 votes
  3. Maria Maragkou and Antonia Kaouri– Shout out 341 votes

ERT Jury:

  1. Victor Vernicos– What they say 740 votes
  2. Maria Maragkou and Antonia Kaouri– Shout out 720 votes
  3. Melissa Mantzoukis– Liar 440 votes

Combined final resutls

  1. Victor Vernicos– What they say 1.249 votes
  2. Melissa Mantzoukis– Liar 1.133 votes
  3. Maria Maragkou and Antonia Kaouri– Shout out 1.061 votes

Combining the results of the two juries, the winner is 16 years old Victor Vernicos with his emotional ballad “What they say“.

As you have noticed, Liar won the public jury voting with a big difference, as she had an average score of 9.9, while Victor had 7,27 and the duet only 4,87. On the other hand, ERT jury gave Victor an average score of 10,57, the duet a score of 10,28 and Melissa just a 6,28.

The winner was decided due to the big difference of the last place of “Liar” by the ERT Jury. We remind you that both the 70 people that voted and also the ERT Jury voted with the Eurovision sytem (12,10,8).

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