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Also, Terry makes the point about Germany, France, UK and Spain finishing in the last 4 - but what about Italy. Do they have no involvement with Eurovision?
Taken from another website:
Italy's absence from the ESC has two basic reasons:
1. RAI (the Italian National Broadcaster) used to select its ESC participant through the San Remo festival and because of the bad italian results in the last years of Italy's participation in the ESC, RAI decided to "protect" the galmour and the prestige of the San Remo festival winners from the bad publicity that potential ESC rankings would give them by withdrawing from the ESC.
2. RAI officials have negatively commented in various occasions the enlargement of the ESC towards the east and expressed the opinion that they could not see Italy in a future ESC where the majority of participating countries would belong to east Europe.
My two cents:
Another factor that most Italians don't even watch the ESC, RAI wouldn't want to lose ratings. I think they haven't even broadcasted it live in the past couple of years.
thanks edward, I was wondering where the Italians had got too, I don't really understand how Israel has got into Europe all of a sudden, it dosen't make sense to me, in Italy they watched it via BBC Prime.
As to the graphics, yes I expected it to way over the safe areas, I'm afraid there's no such things as safe areas on European telly, not that there is so much production in widescreen in the first place, shame UK did badly it deserved better, but there you go.
harshy
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edward posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
Also, Terry makes the point about Germany, France, UK and Spain finishing in the last 4 - but what about Italy. Do they have no involvement with Eurovision?
Taken from another website:
Italy's absence from the ESC has two basic reasons:
1. RAI (the Italian National Broadcaster) used to select its ESC participant through the San Remo festival and because of the bad italian results in the last years of Italy's participation in the ESC, RAI decided to "protect" the galmour and the prestige of the San Remo festival winners from the bad publicity that potential ESC rankings would give them by withdrawing from the ESC.
2. RAI officials have negatively commented in various occasions the enlargement of the ESC towards the east and expressed the opinion that they could not see Italy in a future ESC where the majority of participating countries would belong to east Europe.
My two cents:
Another factor that most Italians don't even watch the ESC, RAI wouldn't want to lose ratings. I think they haven't even broadcasted it live in the past couple of years.
thanks edward, I was wondering where the Italians had got too, I don't really understand how Israel has got into Europe all of a sudden, it dosen't make sense to me, in Italy they watched it via BBC Prime.
As to the graphics, yes I expected it to way over the safe areas, I'm afraid there's no such things as safe areas on European telly, not that there is so much production in widescreen in the first place, shame UK did badly it deserved better, but there you go.
