Eurovision 2012 – After the first day’s rehearsals, some betting odds are already changing for the first semifinal. Strong performances from Iceland and Romania (left) have seen their odds cut already, as Greece’s odds decrease after a predictable and lacklustre first rehearsal. Check out the current odds for semifinal 1.
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Eurovison 2012: Betting Odds Shift After Rehearsals
Posted: May 13, 2012 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Greece, Iceland, Romania18
Romania – After a lengthy national final in Bucharest, Mandinga have been selected to represent their country in Baku. The song that they will perform is called “Zaleilah” (sung partly in Spanish) and is a typical ‘summer hit’. Mandinga beat 15 other acts in the Selecţia Naţională 2012 final, which took 3 hours. They will [...]
Eurovision 2012: Four More Songs to be Revealed on Super Saturday
Posted: March 10, 2012 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Romania, Serbia, SwedenEurovision 2012 – Tonight is a Super Saturday for Eurovision fans with Sweden, Romania and Portugal all choosing their songs in exciting national finals, and Serbia will also preview their song tonight. It all starts at 20.00 (CET) with the legendary Melodiofesivalen live from Globen in Stockholm, as Sweden chooses this year’s representative. Loreen is [...]
Romania – Ireland’s representatives for Baku, Jedward, have tonight confirmed they will be performing on Saturday’s national final in Romania. 15 acts will battle it out to be Romania’s representative in semi-final 1 on 22nd May 2012 in the Crystal Hall. Romanian broadcaster TVR will be streaming backstage footage as well as the main show [...]
Romania – A jury today chose 15 acts to go through to the Romanian national final which will be held on March 10th. Members of jury were Dana Adam (Media Pro Music), Dan Popi (Cat Music), Catalin Muraru (Roton), Sorin Sfarlea (Universal Music Publishing Romania), Manuel Dinculescu (Radio 21), Tony Tesiu (Radio ZU), Stefan Naftanaila [...]
Romania – Two days ago ESCToday reported that the Romanian national broadcaster TVR would hold a special meeting to decide upon the Romanian participation in Baku. Now, Alexandru Lazescu, president of TVR, has given the all-clear. According to him the Romanian participation is a sure thing. The news about the meeting are according to [...]
Romania – ESCToday report tonight, that the Romanian participation will be discussed tonight in a special meeting of the national broadcaster. Apparently, the broadcaster has serious financial problems and thus does not know whether they can stem the costs a Eurovision participation entails. Apparently there were talks with superstar Inna to represent Romania in [...]
Romania – Romanian news website punkto.ro reports that Mălina Olinescu, Romanian Eurovision representative in 1998, has committed suicide this night. Neighbours found her body in front of the high-rise building in which she lived. Apparently, Olinescu has plunged to her death due to love sickness. The doctors tried to reanimate her for half an [...]
Preview Videos for Romania, Finland, Spain, Georgia and an English Version of Serbia
Posted: March 13, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Finland, Georgia, Romania, SerbiaPreview Videos – Currently the preview videos of the 43 Eurovision entries are starting to pour in and are presented on the official YouTube channel of eurovision.tv Today we have the Finnish, Romanian, Spanish and Georgian preview videos for you to enjoy. Furthermore Serbia has published an English version of their entry called “Magical”. It [...]
Chiara and Niamh Kavanagh meet the press
Posted: January 2, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ireland, Malta, RomaniaRomania – They both were judges on the Romanian national final and helped choose Hotel FM as the Romanian representative. A day before the final Niamh Kavanagh (Ireland 1993, 2010) and Chiara (Malta 1998, 2004, 2009) took some time to talk to the press. They talked about leaving their families alone on New Years Eve, [...]
Romania – Last year (haha get the joke? ) Romania selected Hotel FM with their song “Change” as their representative for Düsseldorf in May. The show was hosted by last year’s Romanian participants Paula and Ovi and 13 songs competed for the right to represent Romania. The final outcome was decided 50% by a jury [...]
Romania – Tonight the Romanian national final “Selectia nationala 2011″ will be held in Bukarest. A total of 13 songs will compete for the right to represent Romania in Düsseldorf next May. The show will he hosted by Paula Selig and Ovi, who represented Romania this year in Oslo and reached the best result ever [...]
Romania – The Romanian public broadcaster TVR has now published promotion videos of all 13 finalists on their website. After Switzerland and Albania, Romania will be the third country to select their Eurovision participant on December 31. The national final will be part of the entertainment programmes for the New Year’s celebrations. This year’s Romanian [...]
Today with news from Norway, Romania and the Netherlands Netherlands – The 3Js have written another 3 songs during arecent stay in France. They now have a selection of 7 songs for the national final. Only 5 will be used for the televised national final tough. Jaap Kwakmann has confirmed that the 5 songs will [...]
One of these songs will be Romania’s Eurovision entry in 2011
Romania – Romanian broadcaster has revealed the 13 finalists of the Romanian national final at a press conference today. Only 77 artists had initially submitted songs so there wasn’t much to choose from for the internal jury. These numbers represent a sharp fall of submissions compared to last year. The “Selectia Nationala” will be held [...]
Romania – While in some European countries we notice a spike in popularity of the Eurovision Song Contest (Austria, Switzerland) other countries seem to be less intrigued this year.In Albania the number of submissions stays quite low for the Festival i Kenges and now the Romanian numbers seem even more morose. Only 77 songs were [...]
Romania – If you know any Romanian composers who want to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, tell them to hurry! Tomorrow, November 5, is the last date to submit songs to the Romanian national selection. A total of 11 to 16 songs will make it to the televised national final to be hosted on [...]
Eurovision recap (14)
Posted: October 26, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Armenia, Belarus, Romania, SwitzerlandThis time with news from Romania, Belarus, Armenia and Switzerland Romania – The Romanian national broadcaster has announced November 15, 2010 to be the date they will reveal the complete line-up of the Romanian national final, to be held on New Year’s Eve! A week ago they had already announced that the hosts would be [...]
Romania -The artists competing in this year’s Romanian final have not been revealed, but we can be sure to see two familiar faces on December 31! Paula Selig and Ovi, who brought Romania a third place in Oslo this year with “Playing with fire” will host the “Selectia Nationala”. Artists still have 3 weeks to [...]
Romania – The Romania national final will be held December 31, 2010. International authors may submit songs as long as at least one of the authors or lyricists of the song is from Romania. Songs may be submitted until November 5 this year. To see an overview of all the known dates of the Selection [...]
Voting analysis 6: Who voted for Romania?
Posted: June 13, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, RomaniaRomania – Paula Seling and Ovi achieved the best Romanian result ever with “Playing with fire”: a third place! They were third in 2005 too tough with Luminiţa Anghel & Sistem and “Let me try”.Romania has also never failed to qualify for a Eurovision Final since the introduction of the semifinal(s) But who helped Romania [...]
Some of the votes of the National Juries of this year’s Eurovision are starting to pour in. We now have the information for Romania, Turkey and Portugal. They seem to indicate that winner Lena from Germany got more points from the televoters and Tom Dice’s great place for Belgium relied mostly on jury votes, but [...]
