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How The BBC Should Change Eurovision

At the end of last month, after I made a flurry of posts regarding the perceptions of the Eurovision Song Contest (and negating each one of them), The Stage approached me to ask if I could do a column based around a simple question… “[what should the BBC] do to improve the competition’s standing (and our [the UK's] standing within the competition)?”

In 500 words.

The column went out in this week’s print edition of The Stage, and has also been posted online via their TV Talk Blog…

The contest will run for a full entire week in Moscow, with rehearsals, events and two semi-finals all leading up to the Grand Final on the Saturday night. If the BBC can devote acres of coverage to the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber production and create an enduring emotional link with the county, it should do the same with Eurovision.

The full article is online at The Stage. It’s also been picked up by Eurovision.TV (the official Eurovision site) leading off an article on international coverage to the changes in the voting system – not quite the intention as the lead deadline for print is about a week, but the timing is nice!

September 16, 2008; Eurovision, Links to my Articles;

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