The public Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)/Radio-Canada refused to answer when asked how much it expects to spend on competing in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, the Canadian Press revealed on Tuesday.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that Canada would be competing in the 71st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, taking place in Bulgaria in May 2027.
Crowds estimated to be in the tens of thousands flooded the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday to welcome returning pop singer Dara, who became the country’s first-ever champion at the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend.
This weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest, the 70th edition of the spectacle, continued Israel’s streak of coming in second place, but represented a massive diplomatic and public relations win for a country leftist agitators have been trying to expel from the event for years.
The glitteriest night of the year in Eurasia and Australia will soon be upon us: the Eurovision Song Contest, a now 70-year-old music extravaganza beloved around the world for its shameless embrace of feather boas, sequins, pyrotechnics, and all brands of kitsch.
Israeli singer Noam Bettan and his entourage received a warm welcome in Vienna, Austria, during the opening event for this week’s Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday — a radical departure from the throngs of pro-Hamas protesters wearing keffiyehs and threatening Israeli contestants that had become the norm in the past two years.
Following a turbulent two years in which open hostility to the existence of the state of Israel became almost synonymous with it, the Eurovision Song Contest, through an international boycott movement, has shaken off some of its most belligerent leftist fans – and its quality may have risen markedly as a result.
The European Broadcast Union (EBU) announced that tickets for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest have sold out in record time.
The national broadcaster responsible for hosting the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest announced on Wednesday that audience members will be allowed to bring “all official flags,” presumably including the Palestinian flag, and that booing will not be censored out of the live event, emboldening pro-Hamas protesters who have made the non-political event a major target.
Swiss pop singer and rapper Nemo is returning the 2024 Eurovision trophy to protest Israel participating in the song contest.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced on Thursday that it would allow Israel to stay in the Eurovision Song Contest.
A Swedish man identified by reports as an “ecofascist” associated with Nazi groups promoting a “race war” was sentenced to eight years in prison, with six suspended, on Thursday for plotting a mass murder using chemical weapons at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.
If Israel is banned from competing at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest then host Austria will simply drop the event and walk away.
Spain joined group of countries threatening not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest unless Israel is excluded.
LONDON (AP) — The Netherlands added itself Friday to a list of countries pressuring organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest to drop Israel from the contest because of its war in the Gaza Strip.
A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official claimed on Wednesday that the United States would send a contestant to the revamped Intervision Song Contest, a Cold War-era competition meant to rival the much more influential Eurovision.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will take place in Vienna.
The president of Iceland’s National Broadcaster (RÚV), Stefán Jón Hafstein, published a commentary on Tuesday calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest – and suggested that, in the event that the ban was impossible, the contest could allow Israeli singers to participate without their national flags.
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest winner called for Israel to be excluded from next year’s competition in an interview published Thursday.
The moderators of the Reddit community dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest shut down the page entirely for 12 hours after the Grand Final in the early morning hours of Sunday due to “hate speech and strong emotional reactions.”
Austrian singer JJ won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Saturday with “Wasted Love,” a song that combines operatic, multi-octave vocals with a techno twist.
The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.
Cameras caught an anti-Israel protester at Sunday’s Eurovision opening event, the “turquoise carpet,” making a throat-slitting gesture and spitting in the direction of the Israeli delegation to the competition.
The Eurovision Song Contest says artists at this year’s event will only be allowed to display the flags of the country they are representing.
Israeli singer Eden Golan landed home on Sunday after a tumultuous participation at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, where she faced hostility from fellow competitors, a booing audience, and a thousands-strong pro-Hamas mob outside of the venue.
The Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest who was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before the grand finale will likely be charged for making illegal threats, Swedish police said Monday.
A Eurovision juror said his views on Israel influenced his vote, sparking suggestions the contest was rigged against Jewish singer Eden Golan.
Israel received the second-most votes in the Eurovision Song Contest from the Irish public despite protests from Ireland’s Bambie Thug.
Bambie Thug declared that the “queers are coming” after the victory of fellow “non-binary” performer Nemo from Switzerland.
Self-described “non-binary” Swiss rapper Nemo has won the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “The Code”.
Bambie Thug, the Irish entry into the Eurovision 2024 contest, said Saturday that she cried in disappointment when she learned that the Israeli singer, Eden Golan, had qualified for the finals in Malmö, Sweden.
Thousands of pro-Hamas protesters took to the streets of Malmö on Saturday in opposition to Israel’s participation in the Eurovision contest.
The Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest was expelled hours before Saturday’s final over an alleged backstage incident.
The Eurovision Song Contest, the most flamboyant attempt to prevent World War III ever conceived, will hold its annual Grand Final on Saturday in the most emotionally charged political atmosphere in recent memory.
Eden Golan, a Eurovision contestant from Israel, endured a torrent of boos ahead of her singing performance at the semi-final in Malmo, Sweden, which has increasingly become a city brimming with intense anti-semitism.
The Jewish community of Malmö, Sweden, fear targeted attacks this week as their home hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) issued a statement saying it “regretted” that a performer at the first semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday wore a Palestinian keffiyeh on his arm, saying the garment served to “compromise the non-political nature of the event.”
The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest reiterated that Palestinian flags are not permitted at the event.
Israeli public broadcaster Kan confirmed on Sunday that it would ask songwriters to rewrite submissions in consideration to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest after reports indicated that the contest would reject a song with references to the Hamas October 7 slaughter because it was too “political.”
Recording artists Robyn, Fever Ray, Viagra Boys, and 1,000 more members of Sweden’s music community are demanding that Israel be excluded from Eurovision 2024.
