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James Stephenson

@JamesMakesStuff

I tell stories about the world's biggest Song Contest. Presenter of the Eurovision Uncovered podcast on ESC Insight, and the creator of The Model.

Katılım Mayıs 2020
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James Stephenson@JamesMakesStuff·
This is how Argentina's team should be remembered. Disgraceful, disgusting, and totally deserving - losers.
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🚨🇮🇪 If I had a pound coin for every Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 artist that was picked up by Disney then I would have two pound coins. Sophie Lennon has been cast in a Disney reboot of The Cheetah Girls, winning the role over 300,000 applicants. bbc.in/4gC5MpI
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🚨🇧🇬 The race to host Eurovision 2027 is down to two cities: Burgas and Sofia. It's expected that the EBU and Bulgarian broadcaster BNT will pick the winner before the end of the month. Sofia remains the heavy favourite to hold Bulgaria's first Contest. eurovision.com/stories/burgas…
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"Public service broadcasting must not lie. We apologise for having done so for many years. Public service broadcasting is now undergoing reform to ensure that it becomes independent and credible in the future. News programming has been temporarily suspended. Please stay with us."
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🚨🇭🇺 A few days after the Hungarian government voted to dissolve MTVA, its M1 channel has suspended broadcasting. They are displaying this message (full translation by @FranVision0126 below) until 19:56 CET today, where they will resume programming without news content.
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🚨🇮🇹 So Friday night is Eurovision night at Sanremo. Covers Night stays, that's moving to Thursday. De Martino has also confirmed there will be fewer songs, and they'll be performed for the first time across Tuesday and Wednesday. It's a massive change to the Sanremo structure.
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🇮🇹 Sanremo 2027 artistic director Stefano De Martino has confirmed to Corriere della Sera that the festival's Friday night will be dedicated to choosing Italy's #Eurovision representative.

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🇨🇦 Canada joining Eurovision was unthinkable in the past. Not anymore. It’s a big shift in the EBU’s plans for Eurovision - away from being a show about Europe into one for broadcasters who agree with the EBU’s values. Will the viewers agree with them? youtube.com/shorts/SGEGqJt…
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🚨🇨🇦 BREAKING: Canada will compete at the #Eurovision Song Contest from 2027 onwards. They won’t qualify automatically for the Grand Final, either - they’ll compete in the semi-finals like everyone else. A momentous decision that changes the nature of Eurovision as we know it.
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@DiogoJorge23065 If there's a broadcaster from those countries that wants to join, and the EBU want them to join, there's now no reason why not.
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Diogo@DiogoJorge23065·
@JamesMakesStuff Thank you so this means other observer status with the council of europe like the us and mexico can join too?
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🚨🇨🇦 BREAKING: The EBU has announced that CBC/Radio-Canada is now a full member of the European Broadcasting Union. Canada joining the EBU means the country is now eligible to compete at the #Eurovision Song Contest, and could do so as early as 2027. ebu.ch/news/2026/06/c…
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@DiogoJorge23065 As it stands, no. The new criteria states only broadcasters from countries who have formal observer status with the Council of Europe can join as full members. Australia doesn't. SBS are still Associate Members but the EBU has reiterated on record today they can still compete.
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Diogo@DiogoJorge23065·
@JamesMakesStuff James do you know if SBS could do the same (idk the criteria to become a member)
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Gabe
Gabe@esc_gabe·
Realistically in my opinion, given the appearance of funds explicitly for Eurovision in Canada’s state budget, it is a matter of when, not if, Canada announces its participation. I’d be shocked if they weren’t in Bulgaria next year.
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🚨🇨🇦 Canada’s public broadcaster CBC has become a full member of the European Broadcasting Union. Canada would therefore now be entitled to participate in Eurovision if they chose to do so.

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Broadcasters joining must have "formal observer status with the Council of Europe" as well, which Canada's broadcaster has. Other broadcasters who meet both of these criteria are now eligible to be full members of the EBU.
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🇨🇦 Canada becomes a full EBU member through revised EBU statutes approved at today's General Assembly ↩️ "The revised framework opens extra-European Membership to broadcasting organisations...with a public service media system aligned with core Council of Europe standards".
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