Month: June 2005

Archive / by Sietse Bakker -

THE 14 SONGS FOR COPENHAGEN

Our colleagues of esconnet.dk had the scoop! This morning, they exclusively published the list with the 14 songs for the 50th anniversary show Congratulations, which takes place in Copenhagen on…

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Croatia selects song for Hasselt on 3rd July

On Sunday 3rd July, the second representative for the 2005 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be selected. About a month after the Norwegians selected Malin to represent Norway with the…

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France officially withdraws from Junior contest

France has officially withdrawn from the 2005 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The final decision has been taken today. As esctoday.com earlier reported, France 3 had serious doubts about a second…

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Denmark: DR restyles logo

The Danish broadcaster DR restyled its logo, as well as the branding of its public radio- and television channels. The new logo is not very different from the previous one,…

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Frans Smit died of cancer

Last Monday Frans Smit, the husband of Maggie MacNeal and co-author of Amsterdam, the song with which Maggie participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, died of cancer. Smit…

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NOX tours through Hungary

The Hungarian group NOX didn't manage to qualify for next year's Eurovision Song Contest final. However, they managed to qualify for the final, where their 12th place with Forogj világ…