As this summer has shown, it takes time to get everything ready to host the Eurovision Song Contest. From organising internal bids and finding free time in venue schedules, to arranging extra-curricular events and filling in all the government forms, a winning broadcaster has around fifty weeks before the Contest arrives on its doorstep to get everything ready. Sharleen Wright looks at the idea of giving host cities an extra year to organise Eurovision.

Eurovision is still going to be in Kyiv next May, but who will join them? Read all the latest in the ESC Insight Newsletter in the build up for Eurovision and Junior Eurovision. Also read the views of Paddy O’Connell about the modern day Song Contest from his time at EuroBash this past weekend.

We’re up to 38 entries for Eurovision (and 17 for Junior Eurovision), more dates, submission deadlines, and all the rest of the news from the Song Contest world. Plus a musical flashback to the eighties with Michael Szpak.

Stockholm’s budget spiralled as it hosted the 61st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Did the host city make the right decisions throughout their planning, and what lessons should the EBU learn and take to Ukraine? Ben Robertson reports.

For the final part of Ben Robertson’s three-part series reviewing his time on the Melodifestivalen selection jury, he looks at the improvements that could be made to the process, and has some suggestions for SVT to listen to.

We have a host city, a venue, and enough countries to run a Song Contest. What else has happened in the last two weeks? Ewan Spence brings you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest in the latest ESC Insight Podcast.