We’re all home, and Post Eurovision Depression is kicking in for some. But if you’re not quite ready to let go yet, or want to check that you haven’t missed anything, we’ve collected links to all the 2012 Coverage from ESC Insight on a single page.
A rough count gives us…
- Two full ebooks (the 2012 guide, and “Beyond the Sequins” with Guardian Shorts)
- Articles providing in-depth on the Contest and surrounding issues from January right through to the Grand Final.
- Weekly podcasts bringing all the National Final news, musical highlights, and Eurovision information.
- 13 thirty minute radio shows and 13 daily news bulletins for Australia’s SBS Eurovision Radio.
- The new Video Insight show during week one of rehearsals.
- A full preview of all the songs through eight Juke Box Jury shows.
- Our daily chat show from Baku with guests and commentators from around the Eurovision world.
- The alternative commentary tracks for the Semi Finals and Grand Final.
- And our brand new team member, Terry Vision, bringing his unique style of interviewing to ESC Insight.
You can read the full details of our coverage here.
Sweden 2013 awaits. But not before Junior Eurovision and Amsterdam 2012!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody at escinsight for your absolutely spot on work during the entire Baku debacle. In fact, I shall miss the daily podcasts much more than the contest itself. From the jukebox juries to the alternative commentaries to, yes, Terry Vision. I will look forward to seeing you’all in Stockholm. Or Gothenborg, or Westeraas, or whatever our dear neighbors choose to hold the evenemang (as they say hinsidans).
Is there going to be a debrief show like last year – really interested in the panels views on the voting – and what happened to Norway!!
I think we’ll have to debrief in text for the near future, a lot of the team had to leg it out of baku with a flight 4 hours after the winners press conference!
A Review Show would be great, There were a lot suprising results and it will be intersting to see if there will be only a “Big Four” in Stockholm. Personaly I can’t see that Britains going to take part next year. Although the discussions I have heard and read so far sound exactly like the discussions we had here in Germany in 2009 (20th from 25 starters). “It’s all political” “we don’t have a chance against the bloc vote”. Sounds very familiar.
I don’t think a UK withdrawal is likely, mainly due to the importance of the UK in Eurovision from a financial perspective. But politics may overrule everything. In the event of the UK pulling out, it would leave the door open to Alex Salmond and the SNP to call for Scotland to have it’s own “independent” entry, which the EBU say they are eligible for. At this moment in time London will try to avoid such a scenario at all costs.
No need to look at the UK national budget, the BBC’s Saturday night budget answers the question rather simply. Eurovision is one of the best alue for money Saturday nights in the entire year.
The UK will be in Sweden, I’ll put a tenner on it. Name your charity!
Anybody know if/when we’ll learn the details of the jury/televoting split for 2012? I have a feeling it’ll be even more interesting than last year’s.
Belated thanks to Ewan and the rest of the team for the most thoughtful, thought provoking but fun coverage of this year’s contest. Another great year for escinsight! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Much appreciated Conor. We’re looking over the coverage we did do to decide what to change and what to keep for next year. All thoughts welcome!