With the first song of the Eurovision season and the first act in Melfest and numerous deadlines and dates approaching, catch up on the Eurovision news here in our Newsletter. Editor Ben Robertson uses the Robertson's Reflection column this week to outline the rationale behind why Swedish TV would want to argue for an earlier start time to the Song Contest.

Read the latest ESC Insight Newsletter with the updates at the official start of the Eurovision 2016 season, news on some hot songs for Junior Eurovision in Bulgaria and our Robertson's Reflection column live from Guy Sebastian's visit to Stockholm.

This week's newsletter has all the news about the upcoming selection deadlines across Europe, the best parties to relive the Contest and some Junior Eurovision National Finals. We also have Editor Ben Robertson critique the Swiss selection process in Robertson's Reflection.

This week's newsletter has all the news about the upcoming selection deadlines across Europe, the best parties to relive the Contest and some Junior Eurovision National Finals. We also have Editor Ben Robertson critique the Swiss selection process in Robertson's Reflection.

With five cities in the race to host Eurovision 2016 from the bright lights of Stockholm to the slumber of Örnsköldsvik we ask in this week's Newsletter how small can a Eurovision host city be?