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BM11
gottago posted:
BM11 posted:
I wonder if San Marino qualifying will persuade one or more of Luxembourg, Monaco and Andorra to consider a return if they can sort out their financial problems. Luxembourg was the original kings of picking artists with no prior link to the country.

It didn't persuade any of them back in 2014. Monaco's TMC is now fully owned by the French TF1, I think Monaco's only EBU member now is a radio station so that's unlikely.

TMC put out a statement confirming their absence from this years contest last year - so must still be eligible despite TF1 full ownership of them since 2016.
Andora broadcaster always sounds like it fancies another go but never gets the funding.
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Tumble Tower
Eurovision Song Contest 2019 First Semi-Final Results

Here are the results, which were announced in a random order at 22:04 BST.

My desired qualifiers: Cyprus , Poland, Slovenia , Australia , Estonia , Greece , Hungary, Belarus , Serbia , Belgium.

Actual qualifiers (in order of announcement): Greece , Belarus , Serbia , Cyprus , Estonia , Czech Republic, Australia , Iceland, San Marino Slovenia ,

Bold entries represent the actual qualifiers that match my preferences.

OUT: Belgium, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal.

My comments about which countries qualfied, and which didn't, are available here:
https://nemesis-nick.blogspot.com/2019/05/eurovision-song-contest-2019-first-semi.html#ESC2019_SF1_results
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sigma421
RDJ posted:



The full ending will be on iPlayer when it is uploaded.

Not yet! The version that’s currently there has the breakdown.
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ChipperBird
_Tom_ posted:
No peep about it on the official twitter - which is odd considering how active it was tonight.



fanoftv posted:
It’s seemed to occur dead on 22:10, when it should have finished. No announcer to apologise though. Would they not have one recorded just in case?


I got the impression that the BBC Eurovision Twitter mostly had timed tweets tonight rather than proper live ones, probably just needed to quickly splice the footage in and jobs done. That said it was rather ironic that around the same time they dropped off air - they posted a joke tweet of Portugal's faked death ending about them not making it to the final : P

But yes, BBC 4 doesn't seem to really have proper continuity looking after it - the screen was blank for a good minute or two before the breakdown caption even appeared. I guess they figured that by the time they had fixed the link, people would only get the credits so it was better to just let the show finish. Rather lucky the link gave out after the results were in - any earlier and BBC might of been in trouble with the EBU.
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WW Update
BM11 posted:
I wonder if San Marino qualifying will persuade one or more of Luxembourg, Monaco and Andorra to consider a return if they can sort out their financial problems. Luxembourg was the original kings of picking artists with no prior link to the country.



Liechtenstein is another potential entrant if its sole TV station becomes a member of EBU. Here's an article from two years ago:

http://esctoday.com/152028/liechtenstein-1-fl-tv-applies-ebu-membership-sets-eyes-esc-2019/
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JosiahStuart
NorthDown posted:
RTE’s feed was fine and stayed live throughout to the end. Surprised they couldn’t take a dirty feed from them - at least the comments are in English from Marty Whelan. BBC’s feed was behind RTE’s by a second or two but the closing sting was quite a few seconds c15 even between RTE finishing and BBC coming off the apology caption into it. Odd


I watched SVT1's feed on SVT Play, and it was fine too.
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thegeek Founding member
deejay posted:
Just a guess but it smacks of a line not being booked for long enough. There’s no live announcer for BBC four AIUI, hence no apology.

This does sound like the most plausible explanation.
Last edited by thegeek on 15 May 2019 6:42am
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mrwish
Gary McEwan posted:
Do the broadcaster's need to take all the commercial breaks?

Been watching both Een and SBS, and SBS have taken every single ad break and Een have taken none that I've seen.


La 2 in Spain took all the breaks just to show promos for programmes on TVE channels (as well as the sponsor).

TVE haven’t shown actual adverts on their channels for years but they still always take these breaks.
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TIGHazard
https://www.timesofisrael.com/worker-injured-in-eurovision-venue-accident-dies/

Quote:

An Israeli man injured on Monday when a lighting rig fell on him during preparations for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest at the Expo Tel Aviv fairgrounds has died, hospital officials said Wednesday.

Fuldi Schwartz, 66, was unloading equipment from a truck in a parking lot adjacent to the fairgrounds when a wheeled lighting rig toppled over onto him, causing serious head injuries, broken ribs, a punctured lung and a spinal injury, according to the family.
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BM11
TIGHazard posted:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/worker-injured-in-eurovision-venue-accident-dies/

Quote:

An Israeli man injured on Monday when a lighting rig fell on him during preparations for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest at the Expo Tel Aviv fairgrounds has died, hospital officials said Wednesday.

Fuldi Schwartz, 66, was unloading equipment from a truck in a parking lot adjacent to the fairgrounds when a wheeled lighting rig toppled over onto him, causing serious head injuries, broken ribs, a punctured lung and a spinal injury, according to the family.

Terrible news.
I wonder if they will briefly pay tribute to him on Saturday night.
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Quatorzine Neko
France 4 broadcasted the semi-final without any major technical problem (only minor, and short, sound issues). And during the breaks, they didn't show anything else than what took place in Tel Aviv.

However, the commentators are still awful here in France, chatting more or less meaninglessly instead of translating the anchors' interventions and interviews, sometimes even resulting in amputating one or two seconds of songs.
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AxG
Very close voting last night between 10th and 11th.


Chyron and Quatorzine Neko gave kudos

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