Eurovision 2011 - 10/12/14 May 2011

43 Countries will enter the 2011 ESC, they and their respective broadcasters are:

1.Albania (RTVSH)
2.Armenia (AMPTV)
3.Austria (ORF)
4.Azerbaijan (Ictimai TV)
5.Belarus (BTRC)
6.Belgium (RTBF)
7.Bosnia & Herzegovina (BHRT)
8.Bulgaria (BNT)
9.Croatia (HRT)
10.Cyprus (CyBC)
11.Denmark (DR)
12.Estonia (ERR)
13.Finland (YLE)
14.France (France TV)
15.FYR Macedonia (MKRTV)
16.Georgia (GEGT)
17.Germany (NDR/ARD) (Host Broadcaster)
18.Greece (ERT)
19.Hungary (MTV)
20.Iceland (RÚV)
21.Ireland (RTÉ)
22.Israel (IBA)
23.Italy (RAI)
24.Latvia (LTV)
25.Lithuania (LRT)
26.Malta (PBS)
27.Moldova (TRM)
28.The Netherlands (TROS)
29.Norway (NRK)
30.Poland (TVP)
31.Portugal (RTP)
32.Romania (TVR)
33.Russia (C1R)
34.San Marino (SMRTV)
35.Serbia (RTS)
36.Slovakia (STV)
37.Slovenia (RTVSLO)
38.Spain (RTVE)
39.Sweden (SVT)
40.Switzerland (SRG/SSR)
41.Turkey (TRT)
42.Ukraine (NTU)
43.United Kingdom (BBC)

No Liechtenstein or Qatar


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31-Dec-2010 @ 13:10

...and Italy are confirmed as being in the Big 5. So we're back to 25 in the final this year and 26 next year assuming Italy don't leave again and one of the Big 5 don't win this year.

Slovakia had originally pulled out so the EBU must have given them quite a hefty discount on their participation cost.

Italy back in the ESC at last. Great! They last entered in 1997. Thus they've had 13 years of no entries 1998 to 2010 inclusive.

For comparison, Denmark were absent 1967 to 1977 inclusive (11 years).

Superb - And he even tried to give 13 points out before the line was faded out.
On the Friday evening dress rehearsal in 1998 in Birmingham, they tested out some of the links via the EBU voting results announcers to Birmingham, and all of them worked without a vicious echo as heard on the line to Russia - however various messages were passed on from Ulrika to the presenters, about sorting out the lighting levels and can more interestingly asking them to please display the channel logo behind them on Saturday evening. That's one rule that isn't inforced nowadays.

There was a live Eurovision programme on BBC Two this morning, "New Year's Day Concert 2011". It overran and so BBC Two put an episode of Coast on after it.

It began and ended with a Eurovision animation, like the one linked to above but the one at the end must have been played out by the BBC as before it was played we got a quick look at a sponsor credit (Rolex) which we obviously weren't meant to see in this country (iplayer). Although it is odd that the BBC presenter gave an audio mention to Rolex at least once during the programme.

There is also a female sigh at the very end of the programme. I wonder if this was the audio from the feed or from BBC Radio 3 where this was also being broadcast.

The programme is to be repeated on BBC Four at 19:00 today.

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01-Jan-2011 @ 20:34

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01-Jan-2011 @ 20:53

and as a result get the musical equivalent of the sporting Emirates Stadium name checks when games are held at Arsenal's stadium. They were name checked twice by Petroc Trelawny on the Radio Three transmission.

The BBC, as they do with the Eurovision SC Credits, chopped off the visual sponsor credit, and all the rest as well, as you observed.

The programme used the Eurovision version of the logo rather than the EBU/BU-UER version so that is how I referred to it.

Thanks. I didn't know that programme was a Eurovision one until just now when I watched the clip in the link. Before that I thought it was just an EBU one. Or maybe they did the wrong logo by mistake.

It never happened? It never got added to the listings.

If it said "EBU" then wouldn't that mean it was actually produced by the EBU whereas "Eurovision" means that it's just being distributed by the network? I think ORF were alone in producing it judging by this blurb:

http://www.eurovisiontv.com/en/eurovisiontv/music_dance/new_year_concert.php


They said it appeared in their Digiguide a few weeks before. They're not ones to BS so it must have been a genuine mistake.

I've got Digiguide too and have still got the listings for BBC HD on the 28th Dec and it's not in them.

"the most watched classical concert on TV", apparently. It's been on BBC Two every year for donkey's years - though most of my friends have never heard of it because they're still in bed when it's on. Incidentally, BBC Two only show the second half; the whole concert is live on Radio 3.


It's not unusual for it to over-run either. You'd think they've had got the hang of it by now.

Again, part of the tradition...