Eurovision 2015 - 60th Anniversary Edition

Yeah that's the one, unfortunately that's not being replaced.

Vienna is Eurovision City. The EBU handed over the responsibility today

The draws for the Contest also occurred

More details have been released about the BBC's 60th Aniversary show, to he held at the Hammersmith Apollo. As well as "A very special conference will be held on the 24th of April, called the Eurovision Song Contest: 60th Anniversary Conference at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in London."
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=official_london_to_host_eurovisions_60th_anniversary_event
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=ebu_to_hold_eurovision_conference

I am delighted by these plans and defintaley will be watching March 31st!

I hate to be old-fashioned about this, but shouldn't the 60th anniversary be celebrated 60 years after the first event, i.e. in 2016? They're talking about "celebrating 60 years of the Eurovision Song Contest" - but the 60th contest hasn't even taken place yet!

Didn't they make the same mistake 10 years ago (or was that 9, or 11 - who knows how long a decade is nowadays!) Big Brother and The X Factor did the same thing, confusing a 10th series with 10 years on air.

Similarly, The Jeremy Kyle Show have incorporated a '10' into their logo to show that 2015 marks the tenth year of the show. It did begin in 2005, but not until July, so it won't have been on television for a decade for just over five months yet.

I think that when we celebrated the millennium in 2000 that pretty much set the precedent!

We celebrated the new millennium the same way we celebrate new centuries, decades, years, months, days, hours and even minutes. The precedent for celebrating such things was set long before 2000.

I made a post on the second page that I think explains their reasoning.

Yes, and there had actually been 50 contests that had taken place by that time, so it did make a bit more sense. This time round, Graham Norton says he's looking forward to celebrating 60 years of the contest, but as the concert is this March, there will still only have been 59 contests that have taken place up to that point! It just seems so terribly early for it, that's all. Maybe I'm just being picky, but as others have noted, it seems to be a growing trend to celebrate anniversaries earlier than they should be.

The first contest actually took place in April 1956, so they are close!