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NG
noggin Founding member
topdog2006 posted:

Ah yes most likely it is. What I should have said was the BBC Resources logo wasn't actually displayed on the scoreboard itself as in 1999.


Could have been a sponsorship / advertising issue. BBC Resources trades commercially - and it may be that in 1999 they provided the scoreboard for a reduced price (or free) in exchange for an on-screen sponsor graphic. SVT may well have had stricter sponsor rules and/or the BBC decided not to sponsor the scoreboard?
DV
DVB Cornwall
Work started for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 -

Martin Österdahl produces the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden 2013

It is almost a year to go before the Eurovision Song Contest is decided in Sweden - but already forged plans for the event. The first meeting for the event was held on national television just days after Loreens victory.

Martin Österdahl, 38, the role of executive producer of the event. This means that he is responsible both for television and the organization around the place.

- I am happy and confident that Martin agreed to accept this challenge. He has the right skills, the right background and experience to run an international project of this size, says Mathias Engstrand, program manager of entertainment and events on TV, in a statement.

Google translation from ……..

SVT.SE/MELODIFESTIVALEN
31-May-2012 @ 21:09

(also has video of Friends Arena currently under construction.)

21 days later

DV
DVB Cornwall
Brilliant Christer Bjorkman is the producer
- Eurovision 2013 stands to be an Epic Smorgasbord of entertainment.


more details ……..

EUROVISION.TV
21-Jun-2012 @ 14:56
TH
Thinker
The latest issue of SVT's employee magazine has a column by CEO Eva Hamilton about the win and next year's event:

http://www.svt.se/content/1/c8/02/66/79/64/Vip%E5tv_12_10.pdf

Eva Hamilton/Google Translate posted:
The teacher of home economics was approaching my youngest son, just as he tried to get a free of lumps finishes:

"Tell me honestly honestly," asked the teacher, "was your mother happy or sad when Sweden won the Eurovision?".

Yes, how we felt here on national television on Saturday night last week, euphoria or despair?

To the outside world was excited, there is no doubt about. Friends congratulated by text message, the Prime Minister sent congratulatory telegram to Baku, the editorial page on the fine, the newspaper stated that Loreen is a model for Sweden and thousands of locals gathered at the Haymarket in honor of her return home.

Internally, the SVT is both excitement, pride and concern. I do not think anyone doubts that we have the capacity to make the world's best events and television show. The synergy of all skill and experience gathered around the Eurovision Song Contest is obvious. Nor is it so that it becomes so much more "pop" on Swedish television in 2013. Melo programs and ESCprogrammen are as numerous then as now.

The concern of course money. But maybe there was a sense that we did not have Olympics in 2014 and 2016 ... It is certain at any rate that SVT will not continue to drive up this arrangement to Azerbaijani levels, but be sure to tighten down to something reasonable, something that small democratic TV countries like houses. Similar to Norway three years ago.

Some money, we also have from the EBU. And the city that undertakes event, will account for much of the surrounding events.

The company management yesterday, we stated that we are able to ograverat stick with the programs we already have planned for 2013.

A portfolio that holds an equally high level of documentaries, news, culture and children's programs as the current year.

I think it is of major importance that Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest. And our winners were just Loreen, a second-generation immigrants and their own genuine interest in human rights, with an amazing song and an equally amazing voice.

Just like I want that SVT will broadcast Vasaloppet, Nobel Prize, National Day, and be the natural meeting point at the big dramatic news events, I am proud that SVT will be responsible for something that is much larger than any individual TV programs.

It's about national pride, identity, and it is about the Swedish music miracle.
GO
gottago
I notice the EBU's got a rather dull new logo. Another new ident before Eurovision next year?

http://www3.ebu.ch/cms/en/sites/ebu/home.html
AG
AxG
I'm interested in what that Favicon is? Sort of looks like the 2002 ESC logo.

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DV
DVB Cornwall
Malmö Arena
Hyllievång, Malmo.

Has been selected (according to Aftonbladet in Sweden) to be the venue for the 2013 Contest.

Confirmed


more details ……..

EUROVISION.TV/PAGE
08-Jul-2012 @ 09:03

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DV
DVB Cornwall
..... and so the 2013 circus begins, on air, officially, Lithuania have started their selection process tonight in Vilnius.

19 days later

DV
DVB Cornwall
The order of performance draw has been abandoned in favour of allowing the producers to produce 'a better show' they will now decide, once the entries are known, the running order of each of the three programmes


see here ……..

CMS on .EBU.CH
08-Nov-2012 @ 11:12
NG
noggin Founding member
DVB Cornwall posted:
The order of performance draw has been abandoned in favour of allowing the producers to produce 'a better show' they will now decide, once the entries are known, the running order of each of the three programmes


see here ……..

CMS on .EBU.CH
08-Nov-2012 @ 11:12


I guess this is an evolution of the producer-chosen voting order that was introduced to make the show less predictable. It does allow producers to allocate 'the place of death' though... (Nobody has ever won from 2nd place ISTR)

16 days later

GO
gottago
Bits of news for those who don't keep their finger on the pulse:

Portugal have made a surprise withdrawal from 2013's contest. They have been warning of a possible withdrawal since the recession began but clearly the privatisation of RTP has had an effect this year. Strange actually as Eurovision rates very well in Portugal, even when they don't qualify. Somehow Greece is still able to afford to enter.

Poland won't be returning next year. Slovenia, Slovakia and Romania look like possible withdrawals.

Germany will have an arena-based NF, they've moved away from the Pop Idol type format and it seems that it will be more like a traditional selection of songs. They're planning a Melodifestivalen type NF for 2014.
DE
deejay
That's interesting news about Portugal. I think they're the country who have entered the most number of times consecutively without ever winning, having taken part since something like 1964... They do have a habit of entereting thoroughly terrible songs though.

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