2016 was once again a fantastic year for ESC United. With Stockholm cementing our status as one of the fastest growing Eurovision fansites on the web with a reach of thousands across Europe, North America, Australia and beyond, things are going from strength to strength. But we simply can’t keep up with everything going on in the Eurovision world alone. …
Voting presentation set to see more changes?
It seems that EBU and SVT are making even MORE changes to the voting presentation of this year’s contest, with eurovision.de and multiple fan outlets reporting that only the Top 10 countries in the international televoting will actually have their points read out. The German Eurovision portal reports that the countries who finished 11th to 26th in the televoting results …
Work begins on the 2016 stage!
Work has begun on this year’s staging for the Eurovision Song Contest as Globen Arena is set to be transformed for Europe’s biggest event. As revealed in a blog post by M&M Production Management who are overseeing the construction of the stage, the first two trucks filled with rigging equipment arrived at Stockholm’s Globen Arena today with the first constructions …
Big 5 and Sweden to have rehearsals shown during live semi-finals
It’s been a call made by many fans for several years, but it appears it will now be a reality. The first major change rung in by SVT for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will see Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom recieve extra exposure with performance videos shown of their rehearsals during live shows, currently set …
Australia: Announcement on 4/5th of March
It has been announced today that the representative of Australia in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be announced at 9am AEST on the 5th of March which is 23:00CET on the 4th of March. It was announced by the Michael Ebeid, CEO of SBS (Australian broadcaster), that the announcement will be at the beginning of March. No other details have …
Major Eurovision 2015 news over the weekend?
Eurovision’s executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand has fuelled speculation of important news at the weekend with his latest tweet. The Norwegian suggests that there will be important details regarding the upcoming contest in Vienna to be released before and after the weekend. However, he has not revealed the nature of the news, whether it’ll be the announcement of the hosts, …