The Eurovision Song Contest 2009
The Eurovision Song Contest is a song competition held every year by countries that are active members of the European Broadcasting Union. This contest was inaugurated in the year 1956 and has been held every year since its inception. In fact, it is the longest running television program in the world. Also, it has the honor of being the most-watched non-sporting event in the history of television.
Each participant country has a television broadcasting channel that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It is the responsibility of this channel to select a song and a singer from among many other participants to represent their country on the international stage. The event is broadcasted live in every participating country at the same time. Once the performances are over, the participating countries caste their vote for the best song performance in the event. A country cannot vote for its own performance.
The winner is the country whose entry gets the highest number of votes. These votes include votes coming from the jury and from tele-voting which enables people from the participant countries to vote for their favorite song.
The origination of this contest lay in the rehabilitation of Europe after the World War II came to its end. In a movement to promote peace, harmony and collective interaction of European nations, the contest was born. It was the idea of Frenchman employed of EBU. In those years, before the advent of satellite TV, it was considered an enterprising venture to make a TV contest that was aired simultaneously in different countries.
The attempt got a success, thanks to the four largest contributing countries of the EBU: Great Britain, France, Spain and Germany, who are now known as the Big Four and are always included in the semi-finals no matter of the ballots they get.
The rules of the competition dictate that the country that wins a Eurovision Song Contest is invited to host the next event in the following year.
In 2008, the prize was won by Russian Dima Bilan for the interpretation of a song Believe. Therefore, the 54th Eurovision Song Contest, 2009 will be held in Russia. The competition will be held in the Olympic Arena in Moscow as confirmed by Vladimir Putin, the PM of Russia, himself. This was as well confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union.
Alike many host countries, Russian capital is likely to take this chance to showcase its classical city and advertise tourism. The calendar week preceding the Eurovision final is expected to be full of activity within the city considering the semi-finals are being hung in two separated days.
The two semi-finals will be held on the 12th and 14th of May, 2009. The city should grasp this opportunity of daily broadcast for almost a week throughout the world to introduce its splendors to the world. - 18758
Each participant country has a television broadcasting channel that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It is the responsibility of this channel to select a song and a singer from among many other participants to represent their country on the international stage. The event is broadcasted live in every participating country at the same time. Once the performances are over, the participating countries caste their vote for the best song performance in the event. A country cannot vote for its own performance.
The winner is the country whose entry gets the highest number of votes. These votes include votes coming from the jury and from tele-voting which enables people from the participant countries to vote for their favorite song.
The origination of this contest lay in the rehabilitation of Europe after the World War II came to its end. In a movement to promote peace, harmony and collective interaction of European nations, the contest was born. It was the idea of Frenchman employed of EBU. In those years, before the advent of satellite TV, it was considered an enterprising venture to make a TV contest that was aired simultaneously in different countries.
The attempt got a success, thanks to the four largest contributing countries of the EBU: Great Britain, France, Spain and Germany, who are now known as the Big Four and are always included in the semi-finals no matter of the ballots they get.
The rules of the competition dictate that the country that wins a Eurovision Song Contest is invited to host the next event in the following year.
In 2008, the prize was won by Russian Dima Bilan for the interpretation of a song Believe. Therefore, the 54th Eurovision Song Contest, 2009 will be held in Russia. The competition will be held in the Olympic Arena in Moscow as confirmed by Vladimir Putin, the PM of Russia, himself. This was as well confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union.
Alike many host countries, Russian capital is likely to take this chance to showcase its classical city and advertise tourism. The calendar week preceding the Eurovision final is expected to be full of activity within the city considering the semi-finals are being hung in two separated days.
The two semi-finals will be held on the 12th and 14th of May, 2009. The city should grasp this opportunity of daily broadcast for almost a week throughout the world to introduce its splendors to the world. - 18758
posted by X - Men at
12:54 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home