Svante Sockselius, the executive Supervisor of ESC & JESC announced his resignation today which will become effective at the end of the calendar year which means the upcoming JESC whill be the last event under his supervision.
"When I took this challenge nearly eight years ago, the Eurovision Song Contest was at a crucial cross road. Since then it is has become one of the greatest TV-entertainment events in the world! After the successes of Moscow and Oslo, I decided that now would be a good moment to say farewell, and to give others the opportunity to take the event to the next level."
"We have managed to get a fair voting system and I've had the pleasure of working with a great team at the EBU, with the members of the Reference Group, with great teams at over a dozen host broadcasters and with many delegations from over 40 countries," the outgoing Executive Supervisor said, jokingly adding that "after being seen on television by a cumulative number of over one billion people, it is time to move on!"
How do you feel about Svante's resignation? Are you happy, sad, relieved, concerned?????
How do you think this will affect the contest (if at all?)
"When I took this challenge nearly eight years ago, the Eurovision Song Contest was at a crucial cross road. Since then it is has become one of the greatest TV-entertainment events in the world! After the successes of Moscow and Oslo, I decided that now would be a good moment to say farewell, and to give others the opportunity to take the event to the next level."
"We have managed to get a fair voting system and I've had the pleasure of working with a great team at the EBU, with the members of the Reference Group, with great teams at over a dozen host broadcasters and with many delegations from over 40 countries," the outgoing Executive Supervisor said, jokingly adding that "after being seen on television by a cumulative number of over one billion people, it is time to move on!"
How do you feel about Svante's resignation? Are you happy, sad, relieved, concerned?????
How do you think this will affect the contest (if at all?)