Ewan Spence is joined by Nova and Olympia (from Team Novympia) to review this year's Eurovision songs from Slovenia, Armenia, Portugal, Norway, and Lithuania. Read more on this year's Eurovision Song Contest from ESC Insight at www.escinsight.com.

Eurovision Technical Director Ola Melzig has worked on the Song Contest since Stockholm 2000, from renting out a few lights to creating award-winning stages and emotional moments unsurpassed in the industry. He is in charge of the Contest's various 'show' elements. He puts into practice the vision of the Eurovision stage with decades of experience in lighting and set design on the grandest of canvases. The Contest has played a huge part in developing his professional career, helping him...

Fin Ross Russell and Lucy Percy join Ewan Spence to discuss this year's Eurovision songs from Iceland, Germany, Malta, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, and Finland. Read more on this year's Eurovision Song Contest from ESC Insight at www.escinsight.com.

In our third Juke Box Jury episodes for 2024, Samantha Ross and Matthew Ker join Ewan Spence to judge the songs on the way to Malmö from Denmark, Czechia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, and Poland. ESC Insight reviews the songs heading to Malmö for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Find out more at www.escinsight.com

You don't get long to prepare to host the Eurovision Song Contest. Once you allow time for the bidding process at one end and the time needed to start construction and rehearsals at the other, you have a handful of months to not only put on the TV show but also to sort out the Host City and build on the success of previous years. The latter is the challenge facing Malmö. The organisers hope to make a difference in sustainable practices by ensuring Malmö 2024 and its activities are...

In the second Juke Box Jury episode ahead of Malmö 2024, Ewan Spence is joined by Dude Points and Fin Ross Russell to judge the songs from Albania, Ukraine, Spain, San Marino, and Italy.

There are several innovations in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, but one of the biggest on-screen will be the stage. No longer anchored to the auditorium's rear, the stage's full behemoth is being brought into the middle of Malmö Arena. With the audience on all sides and cameras capturing a 360-degree view, this year's artists will be the first to sing at a Contest where the performers are  "in the round." But what does it mean to perform in the round? We approached Paul Robinson,...

The National Final season is behind us, Malmö is ahead of us, and in the quiet space between lies Juke Box Jury. Yes, the run is starting slightly later than previous years, but everything else stays the same. We’ll talk about all the songs over seven shows, and when we have all our hits, misses, and maybes, it’ll be time to start taking in the rehearsals! Eurovision Insight Podcast: Juke Box Jury #1 with AJ Clay (Lockdown Transmission) and Phil Dore (Eurovision Wars). Greece: Zari, by...

Like many major events, the Eurovision Song Contest has a large pool of volunteers to help host it. As ambassadors for Malmö, they can contribute to the event and experience Eurovision from behind the scenes. That could involve guiding guests around town, helping dress the city for tourists, being attached to a delegation to support their time in Malmö, and countless other roles. Johan Rönning is Eurovision 2024's Volunteer Manager, helping recruit, coordinate, and train the volunteers for...

As the Heads of Delegation Meeting passes, the submissions from our broadcasters are in, and we have a locked-in list of music for Malmö in 2024. We've got a few more rules as well as anew venue if you can't make it into the arena. Let's head into the Eurovision world...

With today's news about the format of the Semi Finals and the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, Ben Robertson and Ewan Spence talk about the key points and how they will impact the performers, the production team, and the public. Voting from the first Grand Final Song, the automatic qualifiers perform live in the Semi Finals, the Rest Of The World gets more time to vote, and more, all discussed over a coffee.

[powerpress] The Eurovision Song Contest's Reference Group guides the Contest, overseeing its development and format, financing, brand awareness, and, of course, the Contest alongside the host broadcaster and the core team at the EBU. In 2023, Dr Frank-Dieter Freiling retired as Chair after thirteen years, and Bakel Walden was voted to take his place at the head of the Reference Group. With two decades of experience in broadcasting, he is currently the Director of Development and...

Looking around any Eurovision Song Contest press centre in the last two decades, you'll likely spot a baseball hat with the word "Boy" written in comically large letters. Under that hat is Aftonbladet journalist Tobbe Ek. A graduate of Stockholm University, he joined Aftonbladet in 2005. While he is now known for his entertainment reporting, many more roles, desks, and assignments led him to Melodifestivalen and Eurovision. The business of journalism has evolved since Ek left the...

This week feels like it is more about the internal selections rather than the National Finals, with just two songs from the latter and rather a lot more from the former. Let’s round them all up in this week’s NewsPod. Eurovision Insight News Podcast: One Final To The Tune Of Another Someone tries to sing for San Marino, someone tries to sing for Spain, someone tries to sing the same song twice, and more… Stay on top of all the Eurovision discussions as the season continues by listening to...

We've had our Super Saturday of song selections (and a pair of internal selections released their songs), which means the playlist for May has nearly doubled since our last pod. Let's check in on all this week's happenings. Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

We talk a lot about the songs of the Eurovision Song Contest here, we look at how the Song Contest allows cultures to be shared, and how the Contest is used as a live environment for testing new broadcast technologies. It's the latter that's the subject of today's Chat Over Coffee podcast. Liverpool's hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest was a golden opportunity for the BBC's Research and Development team to use the live environment for one of their many projects. How does an R&D...

John Travolta isn’t coming back to Sanremo, Microsoft is supporting UMK, and The Roop is looking to return to the Contest. Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Our hoped-for hosts arrive, the BBC serves up some cryptic clues, and the Norwegian televote split continues the voting discussion. Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Ewan Spence and Ben Robertson attended the Semi Final draw for Eurovision 2024 ; here, they talk over the details and importance of the result before talking to Steve Rotheram (Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region), Ebba Adielsson (Eurovision Exec Producer), and Christer Bjorkman, (Eurovision Contest Producer). Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Bambie Thug says hello, Romania says goodbye, and some of us are off to Malmö. all that and more as Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Malmö 2024 will be bathed in the Eurovision Lights. Bold Scandinavia is behind the visual theme of our Contest this year. How did they decide on this look, what happened during the pitching process, and what happens next? Ewan Spence sits down with Design Director Sidney Lim to find out what lies behind the clean and simple building blocks of the Contest. Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Finland takes Sweden, the United Kingdom takes the draw, Ukraine calls on Verka, and more... Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Our first big wave of national selection results, two new names for Malmo, someone decided to let Russell Crowe join in…, and more! Ewan Spence and the ESC Insight team bring you the latest news from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Following a run of success at Eurovision, will 2024 be Norway's year? Ewan Spence sits down with Stig Karlsen, NRK's Head of Delegation, to talk about Norway at the Song Contest. How much of a surprise was Alessandra's worldwide success? Was it a difficult decision to invite Keiino and Margaret Berger back to MGP? Why is the public getting more say in the final decision? All that and more in our latest Chat over Coffee interview podcast.