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Ukraine: The national final returns with changes for Eurovision 2024!

Ukraine’s broadcaster Suspilne confirmed this morning that Ukraine‘s representative at Eurovision 2024 will be selected for yet another year through a national final.

Dmytro Shurov (Pianoboy), who is acting as producer for the national final for the second year in a row, commented:

“In a few days, applications for the National Final will open and the new Eurovision season in Ukraine will begin. I appeal to everyone now: tune in, we need to create and select the next song that will make the country proud, a song that will capture the hearts of all of Europe and ignite a new star from Ukraine. A surprise is waiting for you this year – you can choose yourself one of the finalists. Many interesting things lie ahead.”

As Shurov hinted, there will be changes to the format of the Ukrainian national final, with Head of Delegation Oksana Skybinska confirming that more details will be announced this week. The application platform for interested artists will open later this week.

Tvorchi represented Ukraine with “Heart of Steel” at Eurovision 2023, held in Liverpool, UK, and placed 6th, scoring 54 points from the juries and 189 points from the public vote, receiving a total of 243 points.

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Source: Suspilne

Eurovision 2023: The viewership of the Grand Final in Spain and Ukraine!

The official ratings of the Contest as broadcasted in Spain and Ukraine have been published.

According to official figures, Saturday’s Grand Final was watched by over 4.8 million viewers in Spain via RTVE‘s frequency. Overall, this corresponds to 39.7% of the audience, 11.1% less than last year and 1,996,000 fewer viewers.

In Ukraine, on the other hand, over 1.3 million viewers watched Suspilne‘s coverage of the Grand Final on TV, YouTube and Facebook. With 584,000 of them watching the competition on TV noting an average percentage of 20%, which jumped to 40% during the voting. On YouTube, 473,000 viewers watched the final on the Eurovision Ukraine account, a further 147,000 viewers on the Suspilne website and 124,000 viewers on Facebook.

On the night of the Grand Final, Spain came 17th with 100 points, while Ukraine came 6th with 243!

Source: VerTele / Suspilne

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Ukraine: Listen to the 10 songs competing in Vidbir 2023!

A few minutes ago, the public broadcaster of Ukraine, UA:PBC, published through their official YouTube channel, the 10 songs that will compete in Vidbir 2023, in order to claim the country’s representation in Eurovision 2023!
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Spain: Withdraws its interest in hosting Eurovision 2023!

Since May 15, after the victory of Kalush Orchestra, the question on everyone’s mind is: “Where will Eurovision 2023 be held?”.

Although the Ukrainian authorities, as well as the national broadcaster Suspilne, have made it clear that the winning country will host the contest, several countries have expressed their interest to be considered as back-ups. Among others, the UK, Italy and Sweden have expressed their willingness to host the contest. It seems, however, that one of the strongest candidates has stepped back off the scene.

On 13 June, the newspaper ‘Faro De Vigo’ published a wide-ranging interview with the president of RTVE, José Manuel Pérez Tornero. Among other statements (happiness about Spain’s result in Turin, plans for a Latin American song contest), President Pérez Tornero made it clear that Spain would not host Eurovision 2023.

“We don’t want to stay under the illusion of a good result, we will aim to win next time. We would host the contest ourselves, but in the end, if Ukraine withdraws, the BBC will organise it.”

It is, therefore, obvious that Spain is out of contention.

But has the EBU come to a conclusion? Perhaps, as the RTVE chairman seems pretty sure that all options have been left aside except Ukraine (which seems to be the EBU’s main choice) and the UK as the only remaining fallback option.

Whatever the case, however, it is certain that the name of the host country and city will not be revealed any time soon.

Source: escbubble

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