“You’re good to go!” – How Digame helps EBU ensure a valid result at Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest is the most prestigious music competition in the world. Therefore, it is very important to have, as Jon Ola Sand would say, a valid result. ESCDaily spoke to Thomas Niedermayer from EBU’s voting partner Digame.
“The most important part for jury voting is to ensure members of the jury are not influenced. We control this through notarees in the country where the jury resides. And we also have employees in our head office, one employee for each participating country. That way we can check the results on both ends.”
If Dami Im had won
Eurovision in 2016 SBS would have won the right to stage the next event in Europe with a European broadcaster.
But which nation does SBS favour?
“We’ve talked to a lot of different countries and I’m not allowed to say who the current deal is with,” Paul Clarke from Blink TV tells
TV Tonight.
“The great thing about
Eurovision is that we’ve been supported at different times, by a lot of different countries. So initially, Germany really mentored us, then the Swedes, then the Austrians and Danes. We’ve tended to get support from Western Europe rather than Eastern Europe. But Eastern Europe still voted for us here and there.”
Eurovision will reconnect with fans with an ambitious ‘online village’
The Eurovision Song Contest is finding its voice once again in the form of a free-to-all ‘online village’ open to fans of the singing competition for one week only from May 15-23.A chance for the contest to reconnect with audiences after a year off due to Covid-19, the initiative boasts a series of live concerts from artists such as Johnny Logan and DJ Afrojack, as well as the opportunity to remotely explore the 2021 host city of Rotterdam.
What is the Online Eurovision Village?
In the absence of an in-person gathering, organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 have been forced to think creatively about new ways of bringing people together safely.