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The Eurovision Song Contest gets ever closer, and next will be the start not only of the rehearsals in the Globen Arena, but also ESC Insight’s daily coverage of the Contest as our (now) forty-two songs will sing it out to leave just one standing.
Eurovision Insight Podcast: There’s A Golden Sky
Our final weekly news podcast before the ESC Insight team heads to Stockholm, and we’ve got the loss of an entire country, a surprise preview concert, JESC details, and more. Join Ewan Spence as he rounds up the latest news and views from the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Ewan, if you interview those important BBC people can you possibly ask them what they are doing (if anything) to get Eurovision songs played elsewhere on the BBC ? The contest in the UK badly needs the boost of a few hits, but increasingly the coverage is only ever “pop-up.” We need Scott Mills to persuade his Radio 1 colleagues to champion a few of the songs. It’s not going to happen, is it ? But if it did, more substantial acts would be attracted in future years.
Mark, the team at the BBC are fully aware of this, but it’s best if you imagine the BBC not as a single monolithic entity, but a lot of warring families like Game of Thrones. Each department needs to be persuades, and they all have their own targets. Is Joe and Jake really a Radio 1 song? Radio 1’s management decides that, and the song will have the same chances as others being plugged – but it needs to be on a station by station, channel by channel basis.
Heh “Barei-eye”! It sees all! 😀
I’ll have it sorted by May 15th