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Post by Dylan on Jan 4, 2014 15:20:50 GMT 1
About the UK in 2014's ESC, I think that if BBC want a good result, they should let the public decide the next act, by national final!!! I think this happened in 2009, can't remember, and look what they got.. 5th. So I hope UK use national final, because the public will know which act will be best to pick! Thats so true! But how popular is esc in the UK?? I don't know But as SanBeanzie said, some Brits think of it as a joke and the BBC doesn't care for it. Bad results may have influenced their decision of course. After 25th in 2012, there were calls for BBC to quit the ESC, but I think they should stay. Losing a big 5 country is bad enough, but losing a country which has been there since 1957, is too much. But I think the UK has a great music industry!
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Post by fabbi on Jan 4, 2014 15:38:33 GMT 1
Thats so true! But how popular is esc in the UK?? I don't know But as SanBeanzie said, some Brits think of it as a joke and the BBC doesn't care for it. Bad results may have influenced their decision of course. After 25th in 2012, there were calls for BBC to quit the ESC, but I think they should stay. Losing a big 5 country is bad enough, but losing a country which has been there since 1957, is too much. But I think the UK has a great music industry! I was a bit surprised when I read on the Internet that UK confirmed its participation for 2014. I hope every year that they send someone who everybody know nowadays not many years ago. Or somebody knew who has won a national final. We have seen in 2009 that the United Kingdom can send GREAT entries. With its really great music industry the UK has potential to win Eurovision many times in a row. Unfortunately it doesn't use it.
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Post by Dylan on Jan 4, 2014 16:23:15 GMT 1
I don't know But as SanBeanzie said, some Brits think of it as a joke and the BBC doesn't care for it. Bad results may have influenced their decision of course. After 25th in 2012, there were calls for BBC to quit the ESC, but I think they should stay. Losing a big 5 country is bad enough, but losing a country which has been there since 1957, is too much. But I think the UK has a great music industry! I was a bit surprised when I read on the Internet that UK confirmed its participation for 2014. I hope every year that they send someone who everybody know nowadays not many years ago. Or somebody knew who has won a national final. We have seen in 2009 that the United Kingdom can send GREAT entries. With its really great music industry the UK has potential to win Eurovision many times in a row. Unfortunately it doesn't use it. There is also bloc voting (but who cares ). But I think UK can get to top 5 very soon, because the public will vote for an act they think is good, not only what BBC thinks is good.
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Post by Yngve on Jan 4, 2014 17:25:47 GMT 1
unfortunately we have the same situation as in the UK! Our famous music stars don't want to take part in Eurovision! and TVP always sends artists that average Pole doesn't know too much. We also have problem with bloc voting (as Dyri said), let's see at our neighbours, we can only count on Germany, because Lithuania has the rest of Baltic countries, Belarus and Ukraine love mother Russia so much, our closest friends Czech Rep. and Slovakia have withdrawn from ESC but I have an idea! we must make our own Central European bloc voting together with Hungary and Asutria (Conchita will get from me 5 votes and one extra if she'll shave her beard LOL yay ). And here is an ace in the hole! San Marinese idea! we will pick one artist for a 20 years and one fine day we'll go through to the final!!! (btw, I imagine Valentina at Eurovision 2050 with a new song "My Crazy Dementia Party' )
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Post by fabbi on Jan 4, 2014 17:33:25 GMT 1
I was a bit surprised when I read on the Internet that UK confirmed its participation for 2014. I hope every year that they send someone who everybody know nowadays not many years ago. Or somebody knew who has won a national final. We have seen in 2009 that the United Kingdom can send GREAT entries. With its really great music industry the UK has potential to win Eurovision many times in a row. Unfortunately it doesn't use it. There is also bloc voting (but who cares ). But I think UK can get to top 5 very soon, because the public will vote for an act they think is good, not only what BBC thinks is good. But people have to vote
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Post by Dylan on Jan 4, 2014 17:51:55 GMT 1
There is also bloc voting (but who cares ). But I think UK can get to top 5 very soon, because the public will vote for an act they think is good, not only what BBC thinks is good. But people have to vote I know, and it is same here, Ireland votes for UK and visa-versa, but bloc voting is normal, so what can we do? I hope will finally qualify since 2011
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Post by fabbi on Jan 4, 2014 18:35:17 GMT 1
I know, and it is same here, Ireland votes for UK and visa-versa, but bloc voting is normal, so what can we do? I hope will finally qualify since 2011 I hope this too but I don't know the songs of our national final. So I can't say if there is a chance that Switzerland reaches the final in 2014. As we reached it in 2011 we got 19 points from Serbia, Slovakia and the UK but none from our neighbors but gave them all some points. In Switzerland many people think that we should withdraw from ESC "because we will never win". And that happens "because our image is not the best one in Europe with all these initiatives that we have chosen about". Thats why we lose all the times. But it was said that Switzerland won't withdraw. My dream is that Switzerland wins Eurovision once in my lifetime. I think every year that its sad that there are countries that reach the final every year even when they have a bad song but other countries never qualify.
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Post by Liev on Jan 5, 2014 12:04:22 GMT 1
OMG! Yes! But of course they have to sing in Filipino. Not a problem. Two of my friends are from Philippines, so the plan is set Now we need to get the Filipino broadcaster to join the ABU TV Song Festival. You have Filipino friends? *-* Meh, the only Filipino broadcasting network ABU member is the state-owned one and not the better and bigger ones.
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Post by Dylan on Jan 5, 2014 13:17:42 GMT 1
Not a problem. Two of my friends are from Philippines, so the plan is set Now we need to get the Filipino broadcaster to join the ABU TV Song Festival. You have Filipino friends? *-* Meh, the only Filipino broadcasting network ABU member is the state-owned one and not the better and bigger ones. Yes When they sit behind me and my other friend in Irish, I can hear them speaking Filipino Maybe you can borrow RTÉ and convert everything to Filipino
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Post by Liev on Jan 5, 2014 13:24:57 GMT 1
You have Filipino friends? *-* Meh, the only Filipino broadcasting network ABU member is the state-owned one and not the better and bigger ones. Yes When they sit behind me and my other friend in Irish, I can hear them speaking Filipino Maybe you can borrow RTÉ and convert everything to Filipino LOL! Why not? We'll call it Radyo at Telebisyon ng Irlanda.
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