Negotiations are underway for season 2 of the American Song Contest, according Christer Bjorkman in a profile published by Swedish newspaper Afltonbladet. In the profile, Bjorkman stated, “We are still negotiating and it is, as always, about money.” Bjorkman produced the first season of the American Song Contest, and his company Voxovation holds the rights to the franchise along with …
With the news officially confirmed that 2023’s Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the United Kingdom (on behalf of 2022 champions Ukraine), all eyes are now turned toward the British cities bidding to welcome the Contest next year. The competition to decide 2023’s host city is officially underway — but how will the BBC choose the victor? In a …
It appears that Voxovation – formerly known as ASC, Inc. – have decided to push the Eurovision brand into South America following the inaugural season of the American Song Contest, and the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest Canada starting in 2023. According to the EBU’s press release, Eurovision Song Contest Latin America will be the operating name of the project and …
We continue our journey for another day through the daily release of the live on tape recordings, the videos that would’ve been used in case a participant was hindered in performing live in Turin, earlier this year. Yesterday, we only got two recordings, which came from Portugal and Croatia, but today we are back on track and got another three …
Geneva, 17 June 2022 One month ago, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. Since then, fans have speculated whether Ukraine’s broadcaster would be able to host the 2023 contest safely on Ukrainian soil. Ukraine’s government certainly intended to, in Mariupol no less. Behind the scenes however, the European Broadcasting Union, the organization that produces the annual singing …
We were all rejoicing when the EBU announced yesterday that they were about to release the 2022 live-on-tape performances. Last year, we thought we would only see Australia’s 2021 entry as they were unable to travel to Rotterdam, but a week after the show we received almost all participating countries’ live-on-tapes via YouTube. However, not all of the taped performances …
The EBU has announced that the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, held from May 10-14 in Turin, Italy, reached a viewership of 161 million people across the three live shows. The ratings were measured in 34 broadcast areas, corresponding to national broadcasters and associate broadcast partners across the globe. Average ratings in those areas were up three percentage points on 2021, …
As we got to learn during the reveal of the final results of this years contest, 6 countries were found guilty at “irregular voting”. One of these countries were Romania, who in retaliation, has taken these accusation very seriously, and still questions why the EBU decided to cancel their jury vote. Tonight, the debate continued during the show “Referendum”, where …
During the grand final, the EBU released a statement that mentioned that six of the participating countries were found to create an “irregular voting pattern”, this led to the jury votes from the six countries being completely removed and replaced by a “substitute aggregated result”. Now, we finally get to see, what the EBU were so suspicious about. The results …
As we reported earlier today, the EBU made the decision to nulify the votes from the Georgian, Romanian, San Marinese, Montenegrin, Azerbaijani, and Polish Eurovision juries for both the second semi-final and grand final. In their press release, the EBU came to this decision alongside the pan-European voting partner due to irregular voting patterns that happened in the jury votes. …
