Poland will return to a national selection for Eurovision 2016 as announced today by TVP. We had previously confirmed that news would come soon about the selection process for Poland’s 2016 entry but it was today that TVP opened a submission period for potential entries, with all interested parties given until February 8th to submit their entry to the broadcaster. …

Poland’s national broadcaster TVP looks set to confirm further details on how the Polish entry in Eurovision 2016 will be decided early next week, according to sources on Twitter and one of ESC United’s readers who contacted the broadcaster. It seems almost certain that an announcement of a song and artist will be made by March 5th 2016 but rumours …

Every Sunday at 19:00 CET, the ESC United Know-It-Alls are discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Stefan ( ESC United Editor),Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). In this week’s live Hangout we discussed the following topics: – Nicky Byrne (Westlife) for Ireland – Serhat …

In recent weeks it has come to the attention of the internet and Eurovision fans that new laws have been set in place by the Polish government. These laws in particular relate to the added control over media given to the state. As a result many fans have been worried about the new law standing in the way of Poland’s …

Today the EBU announced the final list of participants. The number of countries has increased from last year’s contest, we will see 43 countries participate in the 61st Eurovision Song Contest! The 43 countries hoping to take home the Eurovision 2016 trophy are: Albania Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia …

Matt and Adam are back with another edition of the ESC Podcast discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. The following topics were up for debate: – Iveta Mukuychan to represent Armenia – Poland going with Internal selection – Lithuania’s elaborate selection process – Three Swedish Melodifestivalen names leaked ?!? – Sietse Bakker stepping down …

It has been announced, today, that Polish TV channel, TVP, that the song and act which will represent Poland in Stockholm will once again be selected internally by the TV company and the decision will be made public in February. TVP will once again internally select their representative, as they have done since they returned to the contest in 2014, …

We’ve now seen most of the semi finalists performing, so it’s going to be very interesting to find out how the remaining ones are staged. Once again we are covering everything LIVE from the press centre at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna. So far we’ve had a full run-through of all semi 1 participants and the first set of semi 2.  Today, …

Polish broadcaster TVP has announced their schedule of programming for 2016 and it has all but confirmed the country’s intention to be present at Eurovision 2016 – as the channel will broadcaster both semis and the final of next year’s contest. As a result this means that Poland along with Finland, Hungary and Sweden have announced plans for 2016. Turkey …

Today it’s the turn of the OGAE clubs of Poland, Norway, Lithuania and Serbia to announce their points. It seems to be a two-horse race between Italy and Sweden at the minute but can today change anything? Poland 12 Azerbaijan 10 Norway 8 Sweden 7 Slovenia 6 Estonia 5 Belgium 4 Germany 3 Italy 2 Israel 1 Albania Norway 12 …