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Cyprus: RIK replied to EBU regarding Fame Story! | Full confirmation for Eurovisionfun!

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Our exclusive article on Cyprus is now fully confirmed by Grigoris Melas’ article on Newsit. According to his article, RIK (CyBC) following the teleconference with ERT and the EBU moved on by sending a reply letter in which they revealed that they are going to choose their next representative for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest through an internal selection process, while official announcement are scheduled for the very near future, information that posted first by Eurovisionfun.

RIK’s reply to EBU

Since the latest developments are a deterrent to the realization of the Fame Story together with the Cypriot representation as a prize, RIK proceeded with a reply letter to the EBU in which, according to the information of Grigoris Melas, it is clarified that it is immediately proceeding with an internal selection process, with the announcements coming very soon, so that there is no misunderstanding with ERT that the artist that will be selected will be someone from Fame Story.

Fame Story follows a separate course

Despite the disconnection of the Fame Story show with the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, its preparations are going on as per schedule. The auditions will start in due time.

The new trailer of the show is already aired and it has no reference to the Cypriot representation as a prize neither on TV nor on the Star Channel and the Fame Story official sites.

The upcoming talent show is not even going to be aired by CyBC but instead by the private Cypriot channel OMEGA, the channel which Star Channel collaborates with in Cyprus.

Artist announcement soon

As you have already read first on Eurovisionfun, RIK lost no time and found the artist who is going to represent Cyprus at Eurovision 2024.

We will officially get to know their identity and the first insight on the Cypriot participation in Malmö in due time. People of the Cypriot delegation are optimistic that next year Cyprus will achieve a better result than this year’s 12th place in the grand final with Andrew Lambrou.

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Sources: Eurovisionfun, Newsit

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EBU: Eurovision Organizers debate on the A.I. exclusion from the Contest!

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The banning of the Artificial Intelligence from the Eurovision Song Contest is on the table.

The organisers of the biggest music show in the world have just started discussing the possibility of excluding A.I. produced content from Eurovision.

Jean-Philip de Tender, Deputy Director General of the European Broadcasting Union, on an interview to Bloomberg at the Edinburgh TV Festival commented that:

“What if at the Eurovision Song Contest we suddenly get an AI-created song?”

The EBU is “reflecting on how we need this in the rulebook, that the creativity should come from humans and not from machines.”

“The competition should reward “people on stage, who have achieved
something in writing a song and performing a song.”

However, in the past, the Eurovision Song Contest inspired the A.I. experiments. In 2019, partially produced by Oracle Corp. algorithms analyzed numerous past participation in order to produce the lyrics and the melody of “Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears” a duet between the 1978 Israeli winner Izhar Cohen and a pink robot.

Has the Artificial Intelligence a place in the Contest or should it be banned from it? Let us know your thought in the comments below.

Source: Bloomberg

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The Netherlands: Rappers Joost and Donnie to take part in the internal selection for 2024!

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The national broadcaster of the Netherlands, AVROTROS, is going to find their next representative for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, again through the internal selection process.

The name of the candidate that has made the biggest repercussion so far is that of the rapper Joost who not only has already expressed his desire to represent the Netherlands in the 2024 contest but has also prepared his entry in collaboration with the other rapper singer Donnie.

Who are Joost and Donnie?

Joost, full name Joost Klein, began his carries as a YouTuber and started producing his own music a couple of years ago. Despite the fact that most of his songs have a humorous tone, his flow and lyrics have proven that he has talent in making emotional music as well. Already being a big name in his home country, he went viral a few months ago in Germany with his song “Friesenjung”. Joost has expressed several time his willingness to fly the Dutch flag in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.

Donnie is already popular in the Dutch music scene and a lot of his song are famous on the radio and the biggest music streaming platforms. Furthermore has released a song collaborating with Chantal Janzen, one of the 2021 Eurovision hosts in Rotterdam. Adding humorous elements in his song, his collaboration with Joost came as no surprise. The only diference between those two is that Donnie expressed for the first time his interference in the Eurovision selection process through a post on his Instagram account.

 

Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.

 

Η δημοσίευση κοινοποιήθηκε από το χρήστη MARADONNIE (@maradonnie)

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Andorra: No official decision regarding Eurovision 2024 yet!

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Despite yesterday’s news (here) that Andorra is not going to return in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, it seems that an official decision is yet to be made.

The national broadcaster of the small principality of the Pyrenees, RTVA, announced today that there is an ongoing evaluation and study of the the country’s return to the competition and that no decision has been made yet. The final decision on the country’s participation or not in the upcoming competition in May 2024 in Malmö will be decided shortly.

Andorra debuted in the competition in 2004 and participated continuously until 2009. So far, it is the only country in the history of the competition not to have participated in the final round as all the entries failed to qualify from the semi-finals. In 2007 the country came closer to qualifying than ever by finishing in 12th place in the one and only semi-final and perhaps the most difficult in the history of the contest as 28 countries were vying for the 10 final tickets.

In the following videos you can remember the participation of 2007 and the last participation of 2009.

Source: ESCToday

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Liechtenstein: The channel 1 FL TV rules out debuting in Eurovision 2024!

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As we can see, Liechtenstein will not be making its Eurovision Song Contest debut, not even in 2024, in Malmo, Sweden.

The country’s public broadcaster, 1 FL TV, confirmed a while ago to ESC Today, that they will not be participating this year either. Liechtenstein faces more problems than other countries in joining the Contest, as the channel must first become a member of the EBU.

The rules of the competition, as they currently stand, only allow members of the European Broadcasting Union to participate. As joining the Union would add additional costs to its participation, especially for a small country, Liechtenstein has not participated in the Contest so far.

In the early 2010s, Liechtenstein had shown interest in taking part in the Contest, as the then director of 1 FL TV, Peter Kolbel, wanted his country to join Eurovision. However, the whole process stopped when Kolbel passed away four years ago.

Managing Director of the Liechtenstein’s broadcaster Sandra Woldt has confirmed back in 2022, that they are no longer interested in joining the European Broadcasting Union and so competing in Eurovision, as one of their aims. Sandra Woldt said in a statement that:

“We are no longer pursuing this goal, we are concentrating on our reporting in and for Liechtenstein.”

This means that, based on the information we have so far, we will not see a new country making its debut in the competition this year either. The last country to debut was Australia, back in 2015.

Source: esctoday.com

Portugal: Participation confirmed for Malmö 2024!

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Portugal will be present at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden.

A few minutes ago it became known through the official account of the Festival da Canção on Instagram that the country of the Iberian Peninsula will compete this time on Swedish soil, something that had not happened after the 1992 Competition and then in Malmö. For the record, Portugal due to poor results and financial reasons had decided to stay away from the 2000, 2013 and 2016 competitions which coincidentally took place in Sweden.

As far as the Festival da Canção 2024 is concerned, 20 songs will compete, of which 14 will be selected following an invitation by the country’s national broadcaster RTP to creators of various music genres, while the remaining six will be selected through the submission process . The submission process for original and unpublished songs is open from today until October 15, 2023. All Portuguese citizens or residents, including Portuguese living outside Portugal, as well as citizens of other nationalities residing in Portugal, can apply for these 6 positions. The selection of these six songs will be done by submitting the tracks to RTP. These tracks must be available by filling out the form available here.

In this year’s contest in Liverpool the country was represented by Mimicat and her song “Ai coração” which finished 23rd in the Grand Final receiving 59 points.

https://youtu.be/HYfkxX4PFyw

Source: RTP

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United Kingdom: The end of the collaboration between TaP and BBC!

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The TaP Music record company will not collaborate with BBC for Eurovision 2024!

Through a post on the official account of TaP Music on X (former Twitter) it was announced that the record company will not be involved to the preparation of the British entry at the upcoming 2024 contest after a partnership with BBC the last two years.

The entries of the United Kingdom for the 2022 and 2023 contest respectively had emerged through the collaboration between TaP and BBC. In 2022 the UK managed to return shortly back to their glory days after Sam Ryder and his song Space Man finished in the 2nd place having scored 466 points. However the UK landed abruptly back to the bottom of the scoreboard as Mae Muller and her entry I Wrote a Song did not confirm the odds who wanted them in the first ten places. She ended up 25th with 24 points.

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Ukraine: Eurovision 2024 participation confirmed!

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Ukraine is going to take part in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö Sweden.

Suspilne, the national broadcaster of the country, confirmed not only the presence of Ukraine in the 2024 contest, but also the organising of a national final show, which is probably going to be Vidbir 2024.

Ukraine is one of the most successful countries in the modern history of the contest, having won it on three occasions, in 2004, in 2016 and in 2022. It is worth to be mentioned that Ukraine is the only country that has never so far failed to qualify to the Grand Final of Eurovision.

The nation insists on taking part at the contest despite the ongoing war conflict with Russia since February 2022. The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy considers Eurovision as a means of enhancing and maintaining the awareness of Ukraine’s fight to sustain their sovereignty.

In the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool the country was represented by the duo Tvorchi and the song “Heart of Steel” and ended up in the 6th place having received in total 243 points.

https://youtu.be/I2oqDpefJ1s

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Source: ESC Portugal

Israel: The hosts and the jury members of The Next Star announced!

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Today the names of the hosts and the jury members of The Next Star, the show through which Israel is going to select their next representative at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, were announced.

The hosts of the show are going to be Assi Azar and Rotem Sela, who have done so since 2014. The member of the jury panel are Shiri Maimon, Itay Levy, Assaf Amdorsky, Ran Dankar and Keren Pels, while Aden Hasson is the new addition.

The production of the upcoming series of The Next Star has already begun. Keshet 12, the broadcaster of the show, has already started the filming of the auditions process which will be aired in September, while the the live shows are expected to commence in November.

The Next Star returns as the Eurovision selection process after a hiatus of three years. It had been used from 2015 until 2020.

This year Israel was represented in 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool by Noa Kirel and the song “Unicorn” who after an explosive performance, she managed to bring the Middle Eastern nation in the 3rd place of the Grand Final with a total of 362 points.

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Source: Euromix

Eurovision 2024: Which country wants less power to the Juries?

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Norway does not like at all the fact that every year the amount of points from the juries is smaller than that of the tele-voting, thus opening a big discussion on this matter. The cause of course was the huge discrepancy that occurred this year, in the voting of the television audience in relation to that of the national juries, after the latter overturned the final result and gave the victory to Loreen and Tatoo.

Stig Karlsen, head of the Norwegian delegation to the Eurovision contest, has revealed that his country’s public television is going to propose changing the scoring system, by limiting the voting of the juries.

In his interview on the Eurovíziós Podcast, Stig Karlsen justifies the above, saying that he believes that people’s interest in the contest will decrease if they see that their favorite song does not take first place.

Although he considers the existence of critical committees necessary, he suggests a change of the balance to 40% or even 30% of the final result, with the remaining percentage determined by the voting of the television audience.

“The juries system at Eurovision should definitely be evaluated and the discussion is very welcome. There has been a difference (in the results) between the jury and the public vote in the past, but this year it was extremely wide. The people obviously had a different winner. The fact that a jury of 185 people should have as much power as millions of viewers is questionable”

At this point we remind you that Finland gained 376 points in the tele-voting, with Loreen receiving respectively only 243. On the other hand Sweden received 340 points, with Finland gaining only 150 in the jury voting.

The whole jury system has had a great repercussion on Norway during the last year. The highlight was the 2019 Norwegian entry with KEiiNO who despite winning the tele-voting at the grand final, the juries allocated them only 18th!

Any change to the contest’s voting system must first be approved by the Reference Group, which is expected to convene next January to approve the regulations for Eurovision 2024.

Source: Eurovíziós Podcast

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