China – Good Evening China! We know many Australians and Americans love Eurovision, but did you know there’s now a growing number of fans in China? They are currently voting for their favourite songs in this year’s contest.. and Iceland is just winning. You can check out their website at http://chinaescfans.wordpress.com/ .Their twitter is @escfans_china.
Archive for the ‘Worldwide Fans’ Category
Rest of the World: Eurovision Fever Spreads to China
Posted: May 9, 2012 by hulluna in Worldwide Fans11
Eurovision History Chat with Bell and Freeman: Germany
Posted: January 27, 2012 by hikarufreeman in Australia, ESC History, Eurovision Through the Years, Germany, Worldwide FansTags: Eurovision, Joy 94.9
ESC History Podcast – The story of Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest is not one of dominating glory. Just two victories in more than half a century of trying. But it is an engrossing tale. It’s in part about a nation’s cultural redemption The first ESC was 11 years & 16 days after the end of the european war. The other part of the story is about the battle for the soul of German popular culture. For years modernity went head to head with the sweet & highly sentimental schlager style. (more…)Eurovision History Chat: The Netherlands
Posted: January 11, 2012 by hikarufreeman in Australia, Eurovision Through the Years, Netherlands, Worldwide FansTags: Eurovision Song Contest, Gerard Joling, Joy 94.9, Netherlands, Ruth Jacott, Sieneke
Podcast – Two presenters from the Australian radio station, JOY 94.9: Andrew Bell & Hikaru Freeman have embarked on an ambitious project in the run up to Eurovision 2012. They will be looking over many years of Eurovision entries, one country at a time. The first featured country is The Netherlands, which is one of Hikaru’s favourite countries. This chat starts out with Milly Scott’s 1966 entry which broke Eurovision’s colour barrier and goes through all the way to (more…)
ESC fans worldwide: Pete from Australia
Posted: October 24, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Worldwide Fans
Australia -We always hear about hundreds of thousands of viewers, watching the Eurovision Song Contest around the globe. In “ESC fans worldwide” I would like them to share their Eurovision stories with us. In the second part we travel from Costa Rica to Australia, which is arguably the non-European country where the contest is most popular. Here’s our interview with Pete Huber: (more…)
ESC Fans worldwide: Jason from Costa Rica
Posted: June 14, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Worldwide Fans
Costa Rica – We always hear that hundreds of thousands of people outside of Europe watch the Eurovision Song Contest. In this new category I would like to introduce some international ESC Fans and let them tell you their story.
Our first guest is Jason from the Latin American country of Costa Rica:
Hola Jason, could you shortly introduce yourself, please? (more…)
