Sveriges Television – SVT – Swedish national broadcaster has just announced the hosts of allocation draw. Jovan Radomir and Alexandra Pascalidou will host us through the semi-final allocation draw for the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm later this year. The semi-final allocation draw will take place this Monday, 25th of January at 11:15 CET Jovan has been spokesperson for Sweden in …
EBU sets date for semi-final allocation draw
The EBU has set the date for the semi-final allocation draw for Eurovision 2016. It has been reported that the draw to decide which semi-final the 37 eligible countries will perform in will be held on January 25th 2016, in Stockholm. The draw will include the decision on which semi-final will see the first Australian entry to go through the …
Jury Voting and why Germany requested to vote in the Second Semi Final
The Semi Final Allocation draw took place this Monday where all Semi Finalists were allocated to one of the to Semi Finals via a random draw and a somewhat complicated process. In addition, it was also determined in which Semi the Big 5 and the host country would vote in. The EBU Supervisor Jon Ola Sand advised that the German …
2015: Allocation draw completed
The allocation draw for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna’s city hall and has just been wrapped up. We now know which countries will perform in which semi final as well as their position in the first or second half of the respective show. Before the draw took place, a delegation from last year’s host city Copenhagen …
Allocation draw: Pots revealed
Tomorrow, the allocation draw will determine which countries will take part in the respective semi finals. 16 countries will take part in semi 1 whereas there are 17 competitors in semi 2. The EBU has just announced the five pots for tomorrow’s allocation draw – they have been calculated on the basis of the votes of the last 10 years …
2015: Important jobs for Andi Knoll & Kati Bellowitsch
Today the host broadcaster ORF has announced two further additions to the Eurovision 2015 team: Andi Knoll who has been commentating the shows for ORF since 1999 and the Austrian spokesperson since 2011, Kati Bellowitsch. Here’s an overview of what they’ll be involved in until May: 26 January: Insignia ceremony & Allocation draw At 12:00 CET, a delegation from last …
Semi-Final running order revealed
The Producers of the show reviewed all entries for this year’s competition and finally decided on the running order for both Semi Finals. Here they are: Semi-Final 1 1. Armenia 2. Latvia 3. Estonia 4. Sweden 5. Iceland 6. Albania 7. Russia 8. Azerbaijan 9. Ukraine 10. Belgium 11. Moldova 12. San Marino 13. Portugal 14. The Netherlands 15. Montenegro …
Semi Final allocation: Semi Final 1 Review & Analysis
Earlier today, the Semi Final allocation draw for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest took place where the 31 participating countries (without the Big Five and host country) where divided into two groups of 16 and 15 respectively. The allocation can have a significant impact on a country’s odds to qualify so we decided it would be a good idea to take …