Austria: ORF likely to broadcast Eurovision 2008

-
While Austria have withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, it seems that it is likely that ORF will broadcast the final of the contest on 24th May according to head of program Wolfgang Lorenz, ESC Today reports.

That puzzles a few people including myself. First they don't want to participate, yet they want to broadcast the show. Lorenz stated that broadcasting the final is an option and that at the moment, he assumes that the show will be aired on ORF. Austrian private channel ATV will definitely not take over the contest.

After disappointing results in 2004 and 2005, Austria withdrew from the contest in 2006 but returned in 2007, but only finished 27th, with only four points in the semi final which led to another withdrawal from the 2008 contest.

Comments

  1. AnonymousSaturday, March 08, 2008 11:40:00 a.m.

    haha! of course they want to broadcast, it is a chance for Austria to earn so money!!! they always love that!!!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

OFFICIAL: The 2008 results of the Turkish back up jury

-
You will remember at the beginning of July, we reported of rumours of the results of the Turkish back up jury, that showed up some interesting reading. As we all know, each country must have a back-up jury whose votes are used in the event of problems with televoting. However, this year the votes of each jury were used to determine one qualifier from each of the semifinals. Yakur Mutla was a member of the Turkish jury, and has passed on a copy of the votes to oikotimes.com that were given all each of the jurors after the event. These are the official results: SEMIFINAL 1 Turkey was not entitled to vote. SEMIFINAL 2 12 pts Ukraine 10 pts Portugal 08 pts Denmark 07 pts Iceland 06 pts Croatia 05 pts Bulgaria 04 pts Switzerland 03 pts Lithuania 02 pts Hungary 01 pts Sweden FINAL 12 pts Ukraine 10 pts Portugal 08 pts United Kingdom 07 pts Iceland 06 pts Croatia 05 pts Denmark 04 pts Serbia 03 pts Sweden 02 pts Azerbaijan 01 pts Poland The official televoting results given that night fro
Read more

Kosovo: RTK wants to enter Eurovision as soon as possible

-
Image
Kosovarian broadcaster RTK has shown interest in entering the Eurovision Song Contest. The broadcaster will soon apply for active EBU membership and will hope to get it in time to enter the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. As a national selection, they will use a contest which stopped years ago, called Akordet e Kosoves . The question remains whether RTK will be able to get active EBU membership, since countries like Serbia, Russia and Greece can object, as they don't recognise the new Republic of Kosovo. Source: Oikotimes
Read more