[AdSense-B] We reported yesterday evening that Per Sundnes had been replaced on the Norwegian jury after he had slammed the Irish entry in a Norwegian programme, with both countries set to compete and vote in the second semi-final. Now, the EBU has confirmed that four more juries have had a change in membership, although for what reasons remains unclear. The …
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 …
As we previously reported, the EBU has announced a change in the voting system for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm. Both the juries and the televote will have their own set of votes, in lieu of one combined score. ESC United received communication from the team in charge of the San Marino team voicing their displeasure and …
The news about the change in the Eurovison voting system has hit the Eurovision community big time. It’s the biggest change in over forty years and it’ll take us some time to get used to the new scoreboard. We listened to your responses and shared them with the world. There are some really great comments as well as fantastic constructive …
We are back with another edition of the ESC Know-It-Alls 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: Petra Mede and Mans Zelmerlow to host Eurovision 2016 Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz to represent Georgia …
As of today new rules have been applied to Melodifestivalen, P4 Sjuhärad (radio station) was able to reveal that representants for an artist in Melodifestivalen had been buying thousands of votes with the help of a telerobot. As an example Bert Karlsson (entrepreneur label manager) can confirm that cheating have existed since the webjoker came along. He was offered to …
Since Eurovision is a competition, it’s safe to assume the point is to win. Accordingly, it’s important to consider what makes a winning song and that, of course, depends on the televote and jury vote. So my question is: what motivates peoples’ votes? There’s so much talk about Eurovision being biased and political but there doesn’t seem to be much …
