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Iveta Mukuchyan to represent Armenia!

  Armenias tenth representative for the Eurovision Song Contest is Iveta Mukuchyan. It was announced today live on the Armenian public broadcaster. It was in 25th of september Armenia announced a “mysterious woman” hiding in the dark of the video that was uploaded on the Eurovision.tvs youtube channel, the singer has now then been announced as Iveta. Iveta is turning …

Is booing okay at Eurovision, why is Portugal withdrawing and is Australia here to stay? ESC United Podcast

Matt and Adam are welcoming Calvin to our Podcast discussion to discuss the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. This time around we are joined by our reader and Forum member Calvin. Make sure to listen to our conversation, today we are tackling the following topics. Today’s topic include: Portugal is withdrawing from Eurovision 2016. Australia …

Portugal withdraws from Eurovision

Sad news for Eurovision fans everywhere – Portugal’s national broadcaster RTP has decided to withdraw from Eurovision 2016 as a result of restructuring in the channel, but hopes to return in 2017. The news will mark the second instance this decade of Portugal taking a sabbatical from the competition, with 2013 being the previous instance of a Portuguese absence in …

Iceland: Accepting Songs For Stockholm!

Today the Icelandic broadcaster, RUV, have begin their song search for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The song that they are hoping will return Iceland to the Grand Final, after missing out on the final in 2015. The songs must be performed in Icelandic in Söngvakeppni sjónvarpsins, but the song is not restricted to Icelandic in Eurovision. When submitting the song …

ESC United Podcast: Montenegro picks the act, Italy and the UK take Eurovision seriously and should we change the Point System

The Eurovision season is slowly picking up so it’s time to start with our first Podcast of the 2016 season. Over the next months, Matt and Adam are going to discuss anything Eurovision and share their thoughs and ideas. This time it’s only going to be the two of them but they’ll have special guests going forward to bring in …

Highway to represent Montenegro

Highway, a three-piece boyband who found fame during the second series of The X Factor Adria, finishing fourth, will represent Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, it has emerged. Despite rumours of a Montenegrin walkout over the jury scandal in Vienna, RTCG has confirmed that Highway will succeed Knez as the Montenegrin performers. They become the second confirmed performers …

Italy make a move to RAI 1 for 2016

Despite the hugely impressive run of results since their surprise comeback in 2011, Italy’s national broadcaster has only shown the Eurovision final on RAI 2, with the main channel instead featuring other programming during the night of the contest. That is, until now – thanks to a third place finish and televote victory from Il Volo in 2015, RAI have …

United Kingdom to return to national selection

In the last few minutes the BBC, national Eurovision broadcaster for the United Kingdom, has confirmed in a press release the recent rumours – the UK will decide its song for Eurovision for 2016! The format of the shows themselves are yet to be confirmed but the BBC have wasted no time in organising a search for a song and …

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