The split jury- and televoting results of the Final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest!

"After two independent audits, and in the spirit of transparancy and openess, the European Broadcasting Union is now fulfilling its promise and releases what you've been waiting for; the split jury- and televoting results of the Final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest!"

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Esc Radio Awards 2008 - The Winners

The winners of the ESC Radio Awards 2008 in four categories are:





BEST SONG:
"Believe" (Russia) written by Jim Beanz & Dima Bilan performed by Dima Bilan

BEST FEMALE ARTIST:
Ani Lorak (Ukraine)

Best MALE ARTIST:
Dima Bilan (Russia)

Best GROUP:
Euroband (Iceland)

For the complete results of the 3rd Annual ESC Radio Awards, click HERE



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First semi final results

The representatives of nineteen countries have presented their songs tonight in the First Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

After all songs had been presented, televoting started in all the participating countries as well as in Spain and Germany, who are already qualified for the Final, but were drawn to vote in the First Semi-Final.

Nine of the qualifying countries were decided by televoting. Furthermore, the highest placed song in the result of the national backup juries which was not yet qualified through televoting got a place in the Final as well. However, the TV public will only find out which country it was after the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday.


The following countries have qualified for the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest (in order of announcement):

Greece - video
Romania - video
Bosnia and Herzegovina - video
Finland - video
Russia - video
Israel - video
Azerbaijan - video
Armenia - video
Poland - video
Norway - video

eurovision.tv has an exclusive video with the reactions af all semi finalists right after their performance in front of the Eurovision.tv camera crew.

New Wave 2007: The results of the third day of the Festival

The second competing night held on 27 July at Dzintari concerthall in Jurmala, Latvia had the following results for the finalists of the New Wave 2007 festival:

1-Mihai Traistariu (Romania) - 107 (video)
2- Natalia Gordienko (Moldova) - 105 (video)
3-Natalia Vinokurova (Russia) -103
4-Kostas Martakis (Greece) - 103 (video)
5-duo "Barcelona" - (Ukraine) - 101
6-Erglis (Latvia) -101
7- Rin' Go (Kazakhtan) - 100
8- Francisca Urio (Gemany) - 100
9- Chioma (SUA) - 100
10- Masha Novikova (Russia) - 98
11-Marina (Poland) - 97
12- Vasiliy Lazarovich (Ukraine) -96
13- Anastasia Kochetkova (Russia)- 96
14- Eleonora (Georgia) -96
15- Polina Smolova (Belarus) - 95
16 - Issa Samer (Czech Republic) - 92
17- Kate (Czech Republic) - 89
18- Alessandro(Italy) - 88

source:newwavestars.com

UK: Making Your Mind Up, also in 2008

belgovision.com reports:

More than four months after the final of Making Your Mind Up 2007 took place, BBC has revealed the complete results of the British Eurovision Song Contest selections for Helsinki. Meanwhile, the British broadcaster also announced to us the Making Your Mind Up format at least until 2009.

Dominic Smith, head of Entertainment at the BBC, revealed the complete results of this years Making Your Mind Up in a reaction to Esctoday.com. In the second televoting round, Scooch received 53% of the televotes while French-born Cyndi, who was first announced as the winner by Terry Wogan by mistake, got 47%. In the first round of voting, Big Brovaz came third, Hawkins & Brown fourth, Liz McClarnon fifth and Brian Harvey sixth.

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Storm in an Eastern Teacup?

from esctoday.com

Despite the outcry against certain voting issues this year, particularly the semifinal result, many countries that initially spoke about withdrawal are now confirming their participation for next year. In the first of our new series of Have your say articles, we're asking if the outcries about the perceived 'Eastern bias' were an over-reaction in the heat of the moment, or fair, justified and expected again next year.

Israel is the latest country to put its Helsinki Blues behind it and look forward to participation at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia. Denmark is set to announce details of its preselection possibly as soon as next week, putting an end to any doubt that the former twice-winning Scandinavian nation will be competing next year too.

Already we have confirmation from the Netherlands and Malta that they will participate in Serbia and once again attempt to qualify from the ever-growing Eurovision Song Contest semi-final...... read more on esctoday.com