Plans for SBS has confirmed that an Asia-Pacific version of the song contest would no longer be going ahead. TV Tonight. He told the website, “I think it’s fair to say we’ve rescinded our rights. We spent a number of years trying to figure out how to do it and then the global pandemic came along.” He also explained the challenge in putting the contest together in the 21st century, far removed from the original motivation behind the Eurovision Song Contest. He said, “It’s very different to the way Eurovision started post-World War Two, as a means of bringing people together. There was a real purpose in establishing it.”