Four new OGAE Clubs have been approved at the OGAE Presidents Meeting in Kyiv on 20th May. From now on Albania, Latvia and Ukraine also have their official OGAE Eurovision Song Contest fan club. For the fans living in a country in which the national broadcaster is not a member of the European Broadcasting Union, OGAE Rest of the World has been created. The request of a fan club from Kazakhstan to become an official OGAE fan club was rejected.
OGAE
OGAE is the world's biggest and most widely spread Eurovision Song Contest fan club. It was founded in 1984 in Finland and rapidly spread to the rest of Scandinavia, most of the other countries participating in the Eurovision Song Contest and even further. The aim of OGAE is to bring fans of the Eurovision Song Contest together, exchange information and together with other organisations promote the interest in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Four new official OGAE fan clubs
Four new Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs havebecome official OGAE clubs. That was decided at the OGAE Presidents Meeting in Kyiv on 20th May. Latvia and two countries that joined the Eurovision Song Contest not so long ago, Albania and Ukraine, now also have their official OGAE Eurovision Song Contest fan club.
For the fans living in a country in which the national broadcaster is not a member of the European Broadcasting Union, the OGAE Rest of the World has been created. The request of a fan club from Kazakhstan to become an official OGAE fan club was rejected.
OGAE Albania
One of the new countries to have an OGAE fan club is Albania. “OGAE Albania now is accepted as a club with full rights and we are working to increase the number of the members and strengthen its structures,” reacts Roni Klein, initiator of OGAE Albania, to esctoday.com.
OGAE International and OGAE Albania agreed that Albania will have its own fan community from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and other European countries where there are communities of Albanians.
