SRF, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, has announced that song submissions for the Swiss entry to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will open on August 25th. In a tweet today, the broadcaster stated that song submissions will be open for two weeks, from Tuesday August 25th until Tuesday September 8th at 10pm CET. The songs for representing Switzerland at the Eurovision Song …
The summer is upon us, which usually means the news section for the contest are far in between, with broadcasters planning things out and waiting for song submissions, but not in Israel! Instead, the country decided to do some VERY early homework and preparation for next year’s contest, despite we don’t even know where it will be held yet. That’s …
Bristol has become the latest city to launch a bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, with the Mayor of the city Marvis Rees announcing the decision in a video message to Pride-goers in the southern city yesterday. At the Pride Day celebrations on The Downs in Bristol on Saturday 9th July, a video message from Rees was …
Following the news that Ukraine and UA:PBC will not be hosting the 2023 contest on June 23rd, even more UK cities and towns have considered a bid to host the contest. It appears that members of the Welsh government are calling for Wales to submit a bid, adding Eurovision to the growing list of large-scale events held within the country …
On June 8th MRT’s Programming Council heard Head of Delegation (HoD) Meri Popova’s proposal to improve North Macedonia’s image, results, and preparations for future contests. The report given by Popova was thoroughly detailed, addressing a number of issues through well reasoned solutions. The requests from HoD Meri Popova In her report, Popova outlined that preparations for Eurovision need to begin …
On July 2nd the Swedish broadcaster SVT confirmed their intent to participate in Eurovision 2023 and revealed the process for submitting entries for Melodifestivalen. The Swedish national final is constantly considered as one of the toughest national finals for Eurovision, due to the SVT’s high production budget, a large interest from artists in participating, and the pool of songwriting talent …
Following Friday’s announcement by the EBU that a feasibility study into the 2023 contest had concluded the contest was not able to be hosted in the winning country of 2022, Ukraine, the broadcasters’ union has begin talks with the BBC about potentially hosting Eurovision 2023 in the United Kingdom. This would mark the first time since 1980 that the previous …
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has stated that he hopes Ukraine will host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 and that they “deserve to” welcome the European competition to their soil next year. Returning to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England, from a visit to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Johnson told the …
Organizational committee related to preparation and hosting of Eurovision 2023 was created in Ukraine on 10th of June. Further, people who are responsible for preparation were appointed. This information was announced by Taras Melnychyk, representative of the government in Ukrainian Parliament. This information means that Ukraine has started its preparation for the music contest. The front man of the band …
An interesting development has occurred in the search for where Eurovision 2023 will be held, amidst ongoing concerns that Ukraine may be unable to host the song contest next year. Due to the continued war in Ukraine, it is possible that the country will be unable to host – in which case, a number of countries have volunteered to host …
