We are back with another edition of the ESC Podcast discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). Today’s topics: Review of the six Swiss NF songs Sergey Lazarev to represent Russia JESC Vladislav Yakovlev fired from the EBU Are …

Mild drama! A phrase uttered many times during a Eurovision selection season, but in mid-December we have our first case of controversy as Stéphanie Palazzo is disqualified from the Swiss national final in February after her song, “Perché mi guardi cosi?” was discovered to be formerly submitted in French in 2013. Kaceo will be the band to replace her in …

The Swiss national final’s line-up was confirmed this evening following today’s ‘expert check’ round, which saw 19 candidates put forward by each broadcaster vying for a place in February’s final. The remaining six who qualified today will perform again on February 13th as part of the televised national selection where one will be chosen to represent Switzerland in Stockholm. The …

Finally another Eurovision show. After a slow start, we are finally getting closer to picking the songs for the 2016 Eurovision Song contest in Stockholm, Sweden. Switzerland will narrow down the field of songs from 19 to six songs tonight. The acts will perform and an expert jury will then decide on who stays in and who goes home. The …

All Swiss broadcasters have now selected their songs for the expert check; there are 19 songs that have made it to this round, which will be watched and listened to by an expert panel on the 6th of December where they will select the 6 best songs which will make it through to the Final which will be held on the …

Today the voting begun for the SRF part of the Swiss national final for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The online portal was opened last month and closed for submissions last week. Today people from all over the world are able to vote for their favourites, these votes will be combined with that of the professional jury to decide which …

Today (28th of September) the German speaking broadcaster SRF, will begin accepting songs as part of their online selection process. Any singers / Songwriters are eligible to send in songs to be judged by the public (Eurovision fans are asked to vote for their favourites online) and a panel of judges. There are no rules as to who can enter the contest, …

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, …

Time To Shine (Eurovision 2015 – Switzerland) The ESC United “Expert” Panel is back once again reviewing all Eurovision songs and rank them accordingly. You are probably asking yourself on how we pick our panel and the criteria. We looked at people from all walks of life to bring together a unique group of panelists with a wide range in …

Four OGAE clubs have revealed their votes on what is the first official day of polling results. Following votes from France and Bulgaria, six clubs have now voted on 2015 and revealed their verdict on the songs. The votes revealed today from Albania, Armenia, Luxembourg and Switzerland are as follows; Albania 12 Italy 10 Spain 8 Russia 7 Sweden 6 …