[AdSense-B] While everyone is all too aware of the issues that have arisen in the past week regarding Russia’s artist Yulia Samoylova and the Ukrainian authorities banning her from entering the country, it seems that today has thrown up a major development in the story, with the potential of sanctions or a ban from the contest arising for any countries …
[AdSense-B] Two of the participating broadcasters in this year’s contest have spoken out to condemn the approaches of both Russia and Ukraine regarding the Yulia Samoylova banning situation. Denmark’s DR has spoken out against the “political battleground” developing in the east, with Jan Lagermand Lundme, the head of entertainment, stating “It is practically unbearable. I know that the EBU takes …
Three people have been questioned and one is awaiting questioning after they were allegedly involved in a televote rigging scandal in this year’s Skopje Fest. The accusation is that the phone votes were rigged in favour of certain songs due to the cash reward the Top 3 artists recieve from Macedonia’s broadcaster MRT. We can now reveal that the four …
The scandal surrounding Skopje Fest is thickening – today the Macedonian broadcaster MRT has released a statement about the allegations of vote fixing and has welcomed an investigation into the matter. Macedonia’s national final has been subjected to claims that the result of the contest was rigged in order for Daniel Kajmakoski to win and represent Macedonia in Eurovision 2015. …
It wouldn’t be a Eurovision season without scandals and the first national final of 2015 has already given us one. Skopje Fest has been accused of rigging the televote in favour of Macedonia’s representative Daniel Kajmakoski using phone cards, according to Vecer.mk. The rules of the show stipulate that only one vote could be cast from each mobile number, with …
Just when you thought things were starting to die down, the Eurovision Song Contest vote rigging controversy saga adds another piece of anonymously sourced information to an already long list of allegations. Torbjörn Wester of Swedish news organization Skånska Dagbladet reported Sunday on an undisclosed source from a national delegation at the 2013 contest who revealed new information about the cheating …
