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Americans who imagine entertainment as the Super Bowl halftime show or silly shows in Las Vegas need only glance across the Atlantic to see true spectacle in all its weird and wonderful glory welcome to Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest, or simply Eurovision, was created in 1956 by the European Broadcasting Union to heal the trauma from World War II. The rules are pretty simple: Each participating country submits and performs an original song, and the winner is selected by a jury of professionals and the general European public.
Today, Eurovision is the largest music contest in the world; it elicits an exciting nationalistic frenzy akin to the Olympics, and its extravagance celebrates European cultural and ethnic diversity. While the 2020 competition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Eurovision stepped up to bat with iconic moments to make up for lost time: We were blessed with Germany’s dancing middle finger, Serbia’s hair flips, Greece’s gree
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183 million watched ‘Eurovision’ song contest The Geneva-based EBU puts together the kitsch annual competition, which was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic
June 1, 2021
Some 183 million people tuned in to watch this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, organisers said Monday, with young online fans driving up viewing figures for the pop extravaganza.
Across 36 countries, the May 22 grand final in Rotterdam saw an average of 40.5 percent of television viewers tuning into the world’s biggest live music event up four percent from the last contest in 2019, the European Broadcasting Union said.
The Geneva-based EBU puts together the kitsch annual competition, which was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The African Union of Broadcasting , the professional body representing national and private televisions and radios from 52 African states, and APO Group , the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, has