The 50th Eurovision Song Contest

That was my idea!
I was thinking of that during last nights voting!

I watched the clean feed of the Eurovision and it was cut out too. I think the EBU cut it because it went on for too long, which probably means more cost and the NTU would pay for it.

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RTE broadcast the whole credits, and the whole SAMSUNG over the scoreboard, and also the web URL of someone who I can't remember who appeared on all the astons.

Strange, must have been my tv or satellite or something. Ah well.

I switched to TVE Internacional after the BBC had switched away, and the end credits were still well and truly rolling. After the end, TVE then ran a couple of Spanish production team credits over an extended edit of the Eurovision theme.

I can't think of one, other than the Beeb, who are 100% commercial free now ?

when Paddy and Javine swapped due to the drunken perv and then Paddy thumped him was the best telly I've seen in ages. Utterly hillarious programme

Yes - whereas I can't list all of them, the majority, if not vast majority of Europe's psbs are now dual-funded.

I don't know why the BBC cut the credits only last night; for the past number of years there has been acres of advertising logos at the end of the credits - perhaps they've had enough at this stage. It was Estonia that started it off, despite the fact that the EBU pays for around 50% of the contest now if not more; the total burden is not lumped onto the host broadcaster anymore as is commonly misconcieved.

Also for those of you in BBCland, it would seem all/most of the broadcasters showing the Eurovision were forced to have an advertising sting for a Ukranian telecoms company before and after the contest, as well as before and after ad breaks. The sting was dubbed for all the various countries languages, but Ireland got a London accented v/o as is typical with cheap advertisers who can't be bothered to alter the dubbing for over here. I was surprised considering this was Eurovision, celebrating diversity.......

Very annoying though that the sting came on even before the EBU ident - how horribly commercial the Eurovision has become.
There was nothing grander than the various stations' continuity idents dissolving into the EBU ident VT. Now it's a crass commerical sting.
An utter disgrace

Radical Idea - voting phoneline GFX show the artist/song name instead of the country so morons don't realise what country it is unless they've made notes.

May help reduce political voting a touch,

With the texception of the Big Four mind you the final result is normally the best song and is decided with the lower points (not the 10 / 12). Jemini did deserve to get 0 points for their performance.

Austria and Germany (ORF and ARD)

The scoreboard they used was the most dull thing I've seen for a while.

The best scoreboards were 2002 and 2003 in my opinion.

2001 the worst.