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Voting Insight: The Impact Of 2016’s New Split Voting

How much impact will this new voting system have on the Eurovision Song Contest result? Will we have new winners, new qualifiers, and new last placed songs? How might these ‘pre-determined countries’ make up a missing televote? Ben Robertson piles through the maths minefield to find out.

Eurovision Insight Podcast: Voting Is Dead, Long Live The Voting!
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Performers turning down Eurovision, Donny Montell not on top, and a new stage! It was already a busy week of Eurovision before the voting system changed! Ewan Spence brings you all the Eurovision Song Contest news from the last seven days for ESC Insight, with music from Hogni Egilsson.

Explaining The Impact Of Eurovision’s New Voting System
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Once more the Eurovision Song Contest is changing its voting system. The presentation of the votes will be the biggest visible change, but it’s the changes to the jury and public scoring systems that will have the biggest impact on the Contest. Ewan Spence looks forward to what we can expect to see in May, and what’s happening behind the scenes.

ESC Insight Asks: What Next For The Ever Changing Song Contest?
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The Eurovision Song Contest has been an ever-changing beast, reflecting the changes in society, entertainment, and politics, since it was launched in 1956. Change is the only constant at the Song Contest, so what’s coming over the next decade? ESC Insight looks to answer that question….

Newsletter: The French Language Identity Problem
Ben Robertson

Ben Robertson’s take on the last seven days of Eurovision news are here, with plenty of review on that epic Super Saturday! He also ponders about the fall of the French language in Eurovision and how that will impact on Austria’s performance in this year’s Song Contest.

Eurovision Insight Podcast: Smiling At The Kukushka
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Sanremo continues, Greece discovers Sad Tony Syndrome, and Lithuania does… something. Ewan Spence rounds up the Eurovision Song Contest news from the last week with the ESC Insight podcast.


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