On June 8th MRT’s Programming Council heard Head of Delegation (HoD) Meri Popova’s proposal to improve North Macedonia’s image, results, and preparations for future contests. The report given by Popova was thoroughly detailed, addressing a number of issues through well reasoned solutions. The requests from HoD Meri Popova In her report, Popova outlined that preparations for Eurovision need to begin …
On July 2nd the Swedish broadcaster SVT confirmed their intent to participate in Eurovision 2023 and revealed the process for submitting entries for Melodifestivalen. The Swedish national final is constantly considered as one of the toughest national finals for Eurovision, due to the SVT’s high production budget, a large interest from artists in participating, and the pool of songwriting talent …
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 …
An interesting development has occurred in the search for where Eurovision 2023 will be held, amidst ongoing concerns that Ukraine may be unable to host the song contest next year. Due to the continued war in Ukraine, it is possible that the country will be unable to host – in which case, a number of countries have volunteered to host …
The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has already “opened up” submissions for the Netherlands’ Eurovision 2023 entry. On May 16, AVROTROS published the requirements for all potential entries. Besides the usual Eurovision requirements such as the song having to be three minutes and not yet commercially published before September 1, the Dutch committee is looking for a convincingly distinct song with a …
Every year Eurovision fans speculate on which countries might return to the contest following a long haitus such as Luxembourg, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, and more. But sadly every year fans will be disappointed. Andorra was close to returning for the 2021 contest, as past Eurovision artist Susanne Georgi had supposedly obtained the funding needed for them to participate …
