• Live music booking now

    Updated: 2012-06-30 00:05:22
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  • Deepest ever look of UK Eurovision history?

    Updated: 2012-06-29 23:20:00
    A brand new book about the United Kingdom in the Europe's Favourite TV Show is published today, and it's probably the most thorough look at the contest from the UK perspective. It's called Songs For Europe - The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s.

  • The Measure

    Updated: 2012-06-29 23:00:03
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  • Word magazine could not survive in changing media world

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:03:29
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  • Eurovision 2012 a success online

    Updated: 2012-06-27 23:57:35
    Eurovision Song Contest has been more and more successful every year in its online activities, but 2012 was even better than predicted despite some hurdles.

  • Marcin Mroziński "I am ready to do Eurovision again"

    Updated: 2012-06-24 21:12:37
    Marcin Mroziński represented Poland in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, with the song Legenda. Although he narrowly missed out on a place in the Grand Final that year, the experience of participating has left him with a desire to return to Europe's Favourite TV Show one day.

  • Who should represent Australia?

    Updated: 2012-06-21 20:10:15
    As Eurovision.tv has previously reported, the Eurovision Song Contest enjoys huge popularity in Australia. Let's imagine for a minute that the rules were changed and Australia were allowed to participate in Europe's Favourite TV Show. Who would the Australians like to see represent their nation?.

  • Dima Bilan goes opera

    Updated: 2012-06-19 23:58:15
    Russian superstar and the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest winner, Dima Bilan has once again made a change in his career and took a new angle to music at his last concert.

  • United Kingdom releases Eurovision jury vote details

    Updated: 2012-06-19 19:26:50
    Adrian Kavanagh 19th June 2012 Following on yesterday’s release by the European Broadcasting Union of the total jury and televote scores for countries in the two semi finals and the final and the release of detailed jury vote details for a number of countries including Ireland (as discussed in an earlier post), the United Kingdom [...]

  • Over 100 million saw Eurovision 2012

    Updated: 2012-06-19 10:00:00
    A total of 64 million people watched the Grand Final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest broadcast from Baku, Azerbaijan. The event with contestants from 42 countries was won by Loreen representing Sweden with the song Euphoria.

  • 2012 Eurovision Televote and Jury Vote Figures Released: An Analysis

    Updated: 2012-06-18 16:13:47
    Adrian Kavanagh, 18th June 2012 The European Broadcasting Union has today released jury vote and televote details for the recent Eurovision Song Contest final and two semi finals - someweeks later than the 2011 figures were released last year (although this year’s contest was of course held some weeks later than the 2011 contest) - and these figures throw up some [...]

  • Eurovision 2012 split jury-televote results revealed

    Updated: 2012-06-18 13:32:59
    Today, we can reveal the split jury and televoting results for this year's Eurovision Song Contest Final and both Semi-Finals. Both, the juries and the viewers at home agree on the winner, Loreen with Euphoria. She also won the second Semi-Final.

  • Sabina Babayeva's Eurovision story

    Updated: 2012-06-16 16:12:41
    Sabina Babayeva was the representative of Azerbaijan in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, securing an impressive fourth place in the Final for the home nation just three weeks ago. Sabina has produced a video for her fans, telling the story of her time in the competition.

  • Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – How did the Irish jury vote in the Final and Semi Final?

    Updated: 2012-06-13 16:19:28
    Adrian Kavanagh, 13th June 2012 The German Eurovision website, eurovision.de, has today revealed how the Irish Eurovision jury voted in this year’s semi final and final and throws up some interesting trends. In the Eurovision Final the Irish jury gave its highest points to Estonia, followed by Germany, Sweden, Ukraine and Italy (Figure 1). By [...]

  • Norway: First details of MGP 2013 announced

    Updated: 2012-06-12 23:11:36
    Just a few weeks after the 2012 contest finished, the first details of Norway's national selection for 2013 have been announced with the town of Steinkjer et to ost the first semi-final of Melodi Grand Prix.

  • The Geography of European Championships Success

    Updated: 2012-06-12 15:59:25
    Adrian Kavanagh, 12th June 2012 As the previous post showed, certain countries such as Germany, Spain, Russia and France have tended to do excel in the European (Soccer) Championships over the decades since the contest began in the last 1950s.  The level of success of different countries has varied over time. The 1996 contest acts [...]

  • Free Corpora of Spoken French

    Updated: 2012-06-09 08:33:05
    I am always looking for corpora of spoken French for my research so I was quite surprised to come across several freely available resources on the internet in the past week. Most of these corpora contain audio and/or video with transcripts of authentic and spontaneous spoken French – perfect for self-study or use in a [...]

  • What country has the best record in the European (Soccer) Championships? Hint – it’s the Germans!

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:13:55
    Adrian Kavanagh, 8th June 2012 Ah the summer of a year ending in an even number can mean only one thing – a major international soccer tournament and this year (being divisible by four) it is the turn of the Europeans! While a number of countries competing in this year’s tournament have excellent records over [...]

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