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MrJadeEwen
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Katie Price said in a recent interview her only regret in life is the Eurovision selection show, so we can thankfully rule her out! 
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Katie Price said in a recent interview her only regret in life is the Eurovision selection show, so we can thankfully rule her out!
Really, that is her only regret in life?
MrJadeEwen
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Apparently so xD
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No Katie Price, please, I beg you! She looked like the long lost fifth Teletubbie in that dreadful "dress".
I bet she only says she regrets it, is because she didn't win it.
Still, having had that performance in Kiev in the Ruslana/Beyoncé copycat's stead would of been amazing.
NeonProject
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No, that would be the day we send Rylan.
penguinperson
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The Voice season 3 is moving to January as I have speculated before. Unless they use that to send the act (they won't) I would imagine the BBC will pick internally. They won't have two singing shows on the channel at once as it would damage both.
Interview with Little Boots here where she talks about ESC http://sosogay.co.uk/2013/sorry-i-d...buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
She is more than willing to write the song for any act. She'd do it herself if the song was 100% right for her and the timing was right. LB like most other artists say that the worst thing about doing it would not be the contest itself but taking part in a UK national final and failing at that stage. So many acts have said the same in the past. It is failing at home which holds acts back not Eurovision itself. Therefore it comes back to the BBC's reputation of 'what should be sent'
BBC Points of View on Eurovision
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Hi ?????
I'd suggest that you send your letter again in time for the next Eurovision?
You say that the contest costs approximately £12.5 million to host, which sounds about right, I've seen similar figures, some up to about £20 million.
A cost of this size for one programme would present difficulties.
The BBC can't regain the cost of the event through advertising revenue as Sweden did, because it doesn't carry advertising - so any income generated would have to come from ticket sales.
If you took a venue like the 02, that has a capacity of 20,000 seats.
So to cover costs the BBC would hypothetically have to charge a minimum of£625 for every seat. Bearing in mind that the BBC give seats for other BBC programmes - like Strictly - away (and I'm not sure that they *could* actually charge for them using BBC rules) but if they did, the price of seats would be astronomically expensive.
So how much would the programme cost in comparison to other major programmes like Strictly Come Dancing?
You can get an idea of what programmes cost to make, by looking at this page.
www.bbc.co.uk/commis...
Eurovision would be a "The high end of the entertainment spectrum. Examples include traditional Saturday night entertainment shows on BBC One" which come in at around £200,000 per hour.
So Eurovision at £20,000,000 million would be using the budget of 100 peak time Saturday night shows, that's nearly 50% of the entire year's budget for a one hour Saturday night time slot.
When deciding how to spend budgets they look at the expected number of viewers
www.esctoday.com/646...
It has been reported (see above) that 7.7 million viewers watched the Eurovision Song Contest with a peak at 9.22 million between 22:45 and 23:00 BST (21:45 and 22:00 GMT) - so about 35% of the viewing public watched.
Which leaves the question, would be it be right to spend the budget for 100 peak time programmes, on just one programme, that only a third of the population are likely to watch?
Remember that I don't work for programme commissioning, so these are just some sums that I've done on the back of an envelope. I think it gives an idea of the situation though...
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They haven't got a scooby do they about funding or how other broadcasters are run.
Interview with Little Boots here where she talks about ESC http://sosogay.co.uk/2013/sorry-i-d...buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
She is more than willing to write the song for any act. She'd do it herself if the song was 100% right for her and the timing was right. LB like most other artists say that the worst thing about doing it would not be the contest itself but taking part in a UK national final and failing at that stage. So many acts have said the same in the past. It is failing at home which holds acts back not Eurovision itself. Therefore it comes back to the BBC's reputation of 'what should be sent'
BBC Points of View on Eurovision
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Hi ?????
I'd suggest that you send your letter again in time for the next Eurovision?
You say that the contest costs approximately £12.5 million to host, which sounds about right, I've seen similar figures, some up to about £20 million.
A cost of this size for one programme would present difficulties.
The BBC can't regain the cost of the event through advertising revenue as Sweden did, because it doesn't carry advertising - so any income generated would have to come from ticket sales.
If you took a venue like the 02, that has a capacity of 20,000 seats.
So to cover costs the BBC would hypothetically have to charge a minimum of£625 for every seat. Bearing in mind that the BBC give seats for other BBC programmes - like Strictly - away (and I'm not sure that they *could* actually charge for them using BBC rules) but if they did, the price of seats would be astronomically expensive.
So how much would the programme cost in comparison to other major programmes like Strictly Come Dancing?
You can get an idea of what programmes cost to make, by looking at this page.
www.bbc.co.uk/commis...
Eurovision would be a "The high end of the entertainment spectrum. Examples include traditional Saturday night entertainment shows on BBC One" which come in at around £200,000 per hour.
So Eurovision at £20,000,000 million would be using the budget of 100 peak time Saturday night shows, that's nearly 50% of the entire year's budget for a one hour Saturday night time slot.
When deciding how to spend budgets they look at the expected number of viewers
www.esctoday.com/646...
It has been reported (see above) that 7.7 million viewers watched the Eurovision Song Contest with a peak at 9.22 million between 22:45 and 23:00 BST (21:45 and 22:00 GMT) - so about 35% of the viewing public watched.
Which leaves the question, would be it be right to spend the budget for 100 peak time programmes, on just one programme, that only a third of the population are likely to watch?
Remember that I don't work for programme commissioning, so these are just some sums that I've done on the back of an envelope. I think it gives an idea of the situation though...
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They haven't got a scooby do they about funding or how other broadcasters are run.
Mickey
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Where did you get that from?
EDIT - Found it BBC - Points Of View Messageboard - BBC Television programmes - Eurovision 2013
Anjeza
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Following their system from the past years it must be a has-been girl group - so what about All Saints or Bananarama?
But to get real, I would love to see someone like Ellie Goulding or John Newman at ESC - but I thin that it won't happen
But to get real, I would love to see someone like Ellie Goulding or John Newman at ESC - but I thin that it won't happen
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Well its about time we get a girl group up there hahaha. Maybe we could get the cast of Loose Women together to rival Latvia 2012.
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Oh my God nobody even talk about that around someone from the BBC!
Thats got winner written all over it. We will make Norway 2009 score look like nothing.
2NeonProject
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The worst part?
This is probably even more relevant to whatever the BBC will choose for us. :/
This is probably even more relevant to whatever the BBC will choose for us. :/