MA
EU membership has not, and never has had anything to do with EBU membership.
Norway, Switzerland, and even Jersey, Guernsey, and the IoM are not in the EU
If there is a leave result next month, do we still get a "free pass" to Eurovision next year?
EU membership has not, and never has had anything to do with EBU membership.
Norway, Switzerland, and even Jersey, Guernsey, and the IoM are not in the EU
RS
Rob_Schneider
Well done for good ratings, but enough of the comments saying "we've lost, we were crap etc."
Any recommendations for next year?
Any recommendations for next year?
As I say, I think using the regional structure of BBC Introducing is the way forward.
* On regionally-networked BBC Local Radio shows, each region selects a candidate.
* Radio 2 play these over the course of a week.
* The candidates then sing on a Saturday night TV show on BBC One.
* There's a televote.
* Each region fields a spokesperson (from their news studio, or a CSO studio if they have one) and they deliver the points as if it were Eurovision (1-10 & 12 based on amount of votes recieved.)
* Winner goes to the finals. Like the ESC the NF goes to the winner's region the next year, so if someone from North West won, it could go to the MEN Arena. If East Midlands won it could go to the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham etc.
TH
Re the 2008 graphics:
In the end credits for the 2008 contest, "TV Graphic Design and Animation" is credited to two Belgrade-based companies called Kompani and Kompani Digitv. Their website is not overly impressive: http://www.kompani.com/
In the end credits for the 2008 contest, "TV Graphic Design and Animation" is credited to two Belgrade-based companies called Kompani and Kompani Digitv. Their website is not overly impressive: http://www.kompani.com/
GE
Dunno; were they ? I can't remember, was that the year the Beeb managed to play out the first hour or so in just 1.0 audio on BBC HD ?
There's a very detailed (but quite readable) account of what went wrong there at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/bbc_hdtv_the_bbcs_bold_trial_o.html
thegeek
Founding member
How come the graphics were so awful in 2008 then?
Dunno; were they ? I can't remember, was that the year the Beeb managed to play out the first hour or so in just 1.0 audio on BBC HD ?
There's a very detailed (but quite readable) account of what went wrong there at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/bbc_hdtv_the_bbcs_bold_trial_o.html
JA
The big 5 are UK, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy - you listed Ireland's broadcaster instead of Germany's (did you mean RTL?). Ireland weren't even in the final this year...
Our bye to the final comes as we are part of the Big 5 contributors to the EBU. Without the money from the BBC, RTE, TVE, FT and RAI the competition's staging would be a lot harder to do, and certainly to the scale or standard we've seen this decade.
RS
Rob_Schneider
Yep... I did. And I think it's ARD in Germany anyway!
RS
Rob_Schneider
Re the 2008 graphics:
In the end credits for the 2008 contest, "TV Graphic Design and Animation" is credited to two Belgrade-based companies called Kompani and Kompani Digitv. Their website is not overly impressive: http://www.kompani.com/
In the end credits for the 2008 contest, "TV Graphic Design and Animation" is credited to two Belgrade-based companies called Kompani and Kompani Digitv. Their website is not overly impressive: http://www.kompani.com/
Neither were the graphics. Tahoma. I'm not joking.
GM
Well its been almost 24 hours after the event so I've had time to digest what actually happened last night.
Overall SVT produced the goods again production wise and presenter wise (Can we just get Petra to do it every year?) I wasn't to sure about Justin Timberlake performing although I wonder if he was there since Logo were broadcasting it.
The voting...well that was something else. I was at a party last night and called Australia from the off and one of my mates had called Russia, and when the last couple of televotes came in our jaws literally hit the floor as we couldn't believe what had just happened.
As for the UK entry, it was actually not to bad and should have done a lot better but the new voting stills shows up the good old voting anomalies.
If the BBC are wanting to appear to take it seriously, then what is the harm in doing a UK equivalent of Melfest? Surely it couldn't give us anything worse than Joe & Jake?
But here's to Ukraine and 2017!
Overall SVT produced the goods again production wise and presenter wise (Can we just get Petra to do it every year?) I wasn't to sure about Justin Timberlake performing although I wonder if he was there since Logo were broadcasting it.
The voting...well that was something else. I was at a party last night and called Australia from the off and one of my mates had called Russia, and when the last couple of televotes came in our jaws literally hit the floor as we couldn't believe what had just happened.
As for the UK entry, it was actually not to bad and should have done a lot better but the new voting stills shows up the good old voting anomalies.
If the BBC are wanting to appear to take it seriously, then what is the harm in doing a UK equivalent of Melfest? Surely it couldn't give us anything worse than Joe & Jake?
But here's to Ukraine and 2017!
JA
Surely one of the biggest jokes was Poland going from 7 points on the juries to getting 200-odd points on the televote.
GM
It just shows you the huge difference between the National Jury and the voting public.
Surely one of the biggest jokes was Poland going from 7 points on the juries to getting 200-odd points on the televote.
It just shows you the huge difference between the National Jury and the voting public.