After the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, Finnish broadcaster YLE looked to the public for advice and feedback on how they should approach their Eurovision selection for 2019. As you may remember, Finland moved away from the multi artist national selection format, and instead internally selected Saara Aalto, with a national final used to select the…
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The BBC have confirmed their participation at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and furthermore, have launched their national selection for 2019. Once again the nation will be using Eurovision: You Decide as the national selection. Interested participants can now apply as the BBC with their potential Eurovision songs with the submission period ending on the…
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Last year, Spain returned to the popular format of Operación Triunfo not only for entertainment purposes, but also to help select their Eurovision act for the 2018 contest. The decision has been made to continue with the programme, and once again it will be used to select their Eurovision act. After a nationwide casting, just…
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After a long wait, we finally know more about the 2019 contest! It has been announced that Eurovision 2019 will be held in Tel Aviv. The decision was made by the Eurovision Reference Group after the Israeli broadcaster presented bids for two potential host cities. The last we heard was that the decision was between…
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A little while back, it was announced that Malta were scrapping their traditional national final format for Eurovision 2019, and instead were adopting the X Factor format, with the winner to represent Malta at Eurovision next year. More news has come out, including the start date for the competition. The first show will take place…
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Although having a fairly short history at the contest, the Czech Republic hasn’t been the most successful at Eurovision but after Mikolas Josef achieved 6th place at this year’s contest, things began to look up. The nation has confirmed their participation at next year’s contest, and the search has begun. The Czech broadcaster Ceska Televize…
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After the success of Michael Schulte at this year’s contest, the interest in the contest is as strong as ever. The German broadcaster has revealed that they received 1000 applications for next year’s national final. Clearly not all of the applicants can go through to the televised national final stage, so the next step was…
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As the next Eurovision season begins, so does the submission period for the Swedish national selection, Melodifestivalen. Swedish broadcaster SVT have announced that the submission period for Melodifestivalen has begun, and it will continue through to the 17th of September. A total of 28 acts will compete in Melodifestivalen 2019 with one of which already…
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Not too long ago we reported that Latvia will once again be using Supernova as their selection of choice, but of course as we know, things can change in the Eurovision world in a blink of an eye! More news has come out regarding certain changes that will be made to the competition. Latvian broadcaster…
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In the midst of sorting out the host city, Israeli broadcaster KAN has announced that HaKokhav HaBa L’Eurovizion will be used as the selection process. This format has been used since 2015 and has been successful in bringing Israel to the final inclusive of their 2018 win. Despite the return of the national final format,…
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