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Hungary – When we saw that ByeAlex was featured in the latest Hungarian Playboy, and the website wanted us to say we were over 18 to view it, we weren’t quite sure what to expect! What followed was just a short (and fully clothed) interview however. You can read it here in Hungarian with the help of Google Translate. ByeAlex has also just released a new song, ‘Nekemte‘, and you can listen to that here.
Hungary – In Hungary last night, ByeAlex won A Dal and the ticket to Malmö. After all 8 acts had perfomred, the jury chose four acts for the superfinal: András Kállay-Saunders (46 points), Gigi Radics (44 points), Tamás Vastag (22 points) and ByeAlex (16 points). The viewers then voted massively for ByeAlex, where he will sing ‘Kedvesem’. Check the video… (more…)
Hungary – Tonight sees semi-final 2 take place in Hungary’s national selection A Dal. 9 more acts are battling it out to secure the last four places in next week’s national final. You can watch tonight at 20.15 (CET) here. Check out who is still in the competition. 
In each semi-final, the jury will first choose two finalists. The televoters will then select two more qualifiers out of the remaining seven acts. (more…)
Hungary – The first four finalists were tonight decided for the A Dal final. Two acts were chosen by the jury, András Kállay-Saunders and Gergő Rácz. Next up, Ildikó Keresztes and Laura Cserpes qualified via the televoting. Tomorrow will see the 2nd semi-final take place, with another 4 qualifiers being chosen.
Hungary – Hungary’s national selection A Dal has chosen 18 acts from an original 30 to go through from the heats to the semi-final stage. There will be the first semi-final tonight and the second tomorrow night. Nine acts will compete in each semi-final. You can watch tonight at 20.15 (CET) here. Check out who is still in the competition. (more…)
Hungary – In tonight’s second heat in Hungary the ten acts in this heat were reduced to a final six. Three were chosen by the professional jury and then three more were chosen by the viewers televotes. Check out which acts have gone through to the two semi-finals which will be held on the weekend of the 23rd and the 24th of February… (more…)
Hungary – The second of three A Dal heats takes place tonight starting at 20:15 (CET) and will run until 22.00 (CET). 10 more acts battle it out to go forward to the national final. The jury will choose three songs first, and then televoting will choose another three. You can watch it live here. You can also vote from outside Hungary. (more…)
Hungary also kicks off its national selection process tonight with its first heat. Ten songs will battle it out and you can watch online at 20.00 – 22.00 here. There will be two more heats, making 30 finalists in all. If you follow it online, come and comment on who you want to win! Here’s the list of tonight’s participants: (more…)
Hungary – The line-ups for the three A Dal heats have been revealed by the Hungarian broadcaster MTVA. It is understood that rehearsals took place behind closed doors yesterday and it is hoped some filmed rehearsals will take place tomorrow. The heats begin on 2nd February. Check out the video of the songs… (more…)
Hungary – The line-ups of the A Dal heats was revealed today by MTV. The three heats will take place on the 2nd, 9th, and the 16th of February, and the exact running order of each has yet to be decided. The highest position Hungary have ever finished in the Eurovision Song Contest was 4th in 1994. Is this the year they will do better? (more…)
Hungary – Many of the 30 songs which will compete in this year’s A Dal final in Hungary have been posted online by Zene.hu. Check out the songs here. 10 songs will take part in each of the 3 heats on the 2nd, 9th and 16th of February before two semi-finals.
Hungary – At this rate we’re not sure if Hungary will have any songs left by the time of their A Dal national final. A third song has now apparently been withdrawn for breaking the rules. Yet again it was a breach of the date rule due to having performed or published their song before 1st September 2012.That means we have seen withdrawals by Szirtes Edina Mókus, The Hated Tomorrow and Egy Másik Zenekar in the last week! (more…)
Eurovision 2012 – Today saw the resumption of rehearsals by acts in both semifinals. Russia kicked off this morning. They got a huge round of applause in the press conference where journalists were watching on the big screen. They’d also brought a large cut out of themselves where you could put your face in and be a granny! (more…)
Eurovision 2012 – Another day’s rehearsals have taken place at the Crystal Hall and reports coming through from Baku say the Russian grannies put on a good first performance, and Ireland had a nice fountain. Israel, San Marino, Cyprus, Hungary, Denmark, Austria and Moldova have also rehearsed. Pasha for Moldova got a bit racy. (more…)
Eurovision 2012 – Eurovision fans will tonight find out 3 more finalists for Baku as Hungary, Norway and Iceland all hold their finals on this Super Saturday. There are also semi-finals in Lithuania and Sweden. All three finals can be seen via Eurovision.tv. Find out more about the events tonight… (more…)
Hungary – In a surprise move the Hungarian national broadcaster MTV announced that the winner of the super final at the Hungarian national final will be determined by jury only. The expert jury will thus have the last word in the decision who will represent Hungary in Baku. Originally the expert jury was only supposed to have an influence of 50% on the result. Out of the eight finalists the audience will determine the four super finalists through televoting. (more…)
Hungary - Yesterday the first semi-final of the Hungarian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Budapest. Ten artists competed for four places in the national final. The qualifiers were: Gyurcsik Tibor, Fábián Juli & Zoohacker, The Kiraly’s and Veres Mónika. They join Compact Disco, Caramel, Gabor and Gabi Toth in next week’s final. (more…)
Hungary – Yesterday the first semi-final of the Hungarian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Budapest. Ten artists competed for four places in the national final. Three acts will be selected by the jury: Compact Disco, Caramel and Gabor Heincz while the fourth one was chosen by the public through televoting: Gabi Toth. (more…)
Hungary – Tonight the first semi-final of the Hungarian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Budapest. Ten artists will compete for four places in the national final. Three acts will be selected by the jury, while the fourth one will be chosen by the public through televoting. On February 11, Hungary will choose its entry for Baku by a mixture of 50/50 jury and televoting. (more…)
Hungary – Next Saturday, the Hungarian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest will start with the first of two semi-finals. A total of 20 songs will compete in the selection. They had been presented in a radio show and can now be listened to on soundcloud. (more…)
Hungary – Hungarian national selection songs will be played tomorrow at MR2 – Petőfi Rádión radio station, at 21:00 local time. There are 20 songs in the total, and the first semifinal of the selection will be held on Saturday, 28 January. Here are the 20 songs and performers: (more…)
Hunagry – The Hungarian national broadcaster has revealed the 20 acts that will compete in the two semi-final that are going to be held on January 28 and February 04. Now a video of snippets of all competing entries has appeared on youtube. From each semi-final four acts will qualify to the national final on February 11. Here is the list of participants: (more…)
Hungary – The Hungarian national broadcaster, MTV, announced the receivement of more than 200 entries to the national final, which is starting this month. The large number of songs made MTV change the previous rules for the final: intially, the jury would choose only 16 artists. Now, they’re going to choose 20, allocating 10 to each semi-final. The national final will take place in February. (more…)
Hungary – Singing model András Kállay-Saunders has submitted a song for this year’s Hungarian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Saunders came to fame as a participant of the popular Hungarian casting show “Megasztár”, in which he impressed vocally as well as visually and came 4th. His current single Csak veled is currently a Top 10 hit in Hungary. The song he submitted for the national selection is called “I love you” (more…)
Recap – With the Eurovision season getting into full swing once more, we will use our well-tried “Eurovision recap” to keep you updated about rather minor news from the Eurovision Song Contest world. This time we have calls for songs from Belgium and Georgia, new videos by Eric Saade, Poli Genova, Kate Ryan and Kati Wolf, extended deadlines in Hungary and a surprise by Jedward: (more…)
Hungary – The popularity of the Eurovision Song Contest in Hungary has risen in recent years and especially last year. Today the Hungarian national broadcaster has announced that Hungary will choose its representative for the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku through a national final instead of an internal selection. At a press conference today the broadcaster started an open call for songs, which can be submitted until December 20. The national selection will consist of two semi-finals and a national final. (more…)
Hungary – News has arrived via the official Eurovision Hungary’s facebook. “Dear Friends, we are glad to inform you that the Hungarian public service broadcaster is going to hold a press conference about the details of the Hungarian participation at ESC 2012 on Thursday afternoon. So more information on Thursday… 
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Eurovision 2011 – The new videos and revamped versions are pouring in right before the Heads of Delegations meeting in Düsseldorf this Monday. Hungary has tonight revealed its official preview video (which I can’t see in Germany), Croatia has revealed a new English version of the song “Lahor” which is entitled “Celebrate”. The initial title “Break A Lag” has thus been changed for obvious reasons. The Netherlands have also released the English version of their entry called “Never alone“. Here you can watch the videos: (more…)
