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2295 songs submitted to compete in Melodifestivalen 2019!
There is still almost five months until the very first semi-final of the biggest Scandinavian national selection in the upcoming season, but the SVT already received 2295 applications for Melodifestivalen 2019, one of which will go on to…
Eurovision 2019 to be held in Tel Aviv!
The EBU has confirmed that Tel Aviv will be the host city of Eurovision 2019 and will be held at the Expo Tel Aviv (International Convention Centre).
A YouTube video was posted with a confirmation and a short presentation from Jon Ola…
Lea Sirk will get a successor – Slovenia is in the game for 2019!
RTV Slovenia will also have its representative on the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Israel. At least this is what the Slovenian broadcaster published earlier today. The way the song is going to be selected will be presented in the…
Julia Samoylova says she has emigrated from Russia or has she?
Julia Samaloya, the Russian Eurovision entrant for 2018 and banned Eurovision entrant from 2017, has posted a six second Instagram story where she states “I’m ready to emigrate from Russia to Europe”.
The bottom of the story show a…
Eesti Laul 2019 details announced with more live shows and rule changes!
The Estonian broadcaster ERR has just revealed on the ETV programme Ringvaade the details for Eesti Laul 2019, the selection format used to decide the Estonian Eurovision entry. The details are also available on their website.…
Rumours about Host City circulate as Israeli politicians respond to EBU letter
Yesterday we brought you the breaking news that the EBU had written to Israeli Prime Minster, Benjamin Netanyahu, stating that there were several demands it would place on the host country including allowing work to take place on the…
Eurovision 2019 to be held in Israel as KAN takes out loan
We have reported to you over the last two days that KAN, the Israeli broadcaster responsible for hosting Eurovision 2019 had not paid the 12 Million Euro due today as a security deposit. Without this payment to the EBU it would not have…
‘There are always contigency plans in place’ The EBU responds to Israeli funding crisis
In the latest development on the current non payment of the security deposit of 12 Million Euros due tomorrow from the Israeli state broadcaster to the EBU, a statement has now been issued by the EBU themselves.
They told fellow…
The government has no intention of assisting IPBC in funding Eurovision!
After we reported that the Israeli national broadcaster IPBC is on the verge of forfeiting its rights to host the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, the Finance Minister of Israel stated that the Government has no intention of assisting IPBC in…
Kazakhstan debuts, and makes it 19 countries for JESC in Minsk!
The EBU has just announced that a record number of countries - 19, are going to be taking part in the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Minsk this November.
Three countries are making their come-back to the…