‘Professor Song Contest’ schools us on the costs of Eurovision | DW News 

It's ridiculous that public broadcaster like RAI (funded by the government and taxes) can earn from advertising. It's one of the few in Europe that still has adverts.

@@stateofdreaming They need it to stay relevent, because the States don't fund their broadasters enough

@@stateofdreaming Croatian public broadcaster HRT has both levy of 10€ per household and advertizing. They have about 2700 employees!

It’s good to be danish in that way

I was soooo looking forward to Split 2025… greetings from Switzerland.

@@netopir3804 Zagreb, the capital. Split would not host, it does not have the infrastructure.

Türkiye will join in Eurovision again and crush the competition. We still have many great young artists 🎨🎷🪗🎸🎹🎺🎻🪕🥁🪘🪇🪈🎼🎵🎶🎙🎚🎛🎤🎧📻

bir Fransız yada Avrupalı hiç bir zaman gelib türklere kendi ülkesini kötülemez. Avupali olmak bu demek.....

I am really rooting for your country to come back! Too bad I started following Eurovision when Turkiye already withdrew, but I really enjoyed your country's past entries when I searched them online. Hoping to hear another Turkish ethnic bop again in Eurovision very soon

@akosivis thank you for your support... Yes, we will return to Eurovision. The worst is almost past behind us. Erdogan will wreck the country for another 4 years, ruining everything he is associated with, including the medieval religion called Islamism.

No great artist takes part in the Eurovision, like ever...

Switzerland also pays into the european cohesion fund, so it's actually like a member of the EU in terms of contributing money And early on it was in the council as well, so a lot of bilateral agreements are precursors.

​@@ayoCCEU? this is about a song contest in all of Europe

I am in schock too!

Robwords is his private channel. But he is an exceptional journalist working for one of the most famous news media DW.

Whaaaaat

ikr I'm soooo shocked, great video

Only Croatia...

Nemo!!! And Baby Lasagna ❤

me too

In a small country i would actually very much consider the amounts of talent you can actually draw upon. When your population is only around 1 million, it suddenly becomes kind of hard i think. I do think though that all countries should be incentivized to participate, it's a great venue to project the european dream in a sustainable way.

The artist doesn’t have to be of the nationality of the country they represent.

@@humphreychannel582 Exactly. I think it was San Marino this year who sent a Spanish band. And well, we all know that Canadian Celine Dion won for Switzerland. Germany also had nominated Ben Dolic, who is Slovenian, for Eurovision 2020. There is also Austrian singer Nathan Trent who applied for the Austrian and German preselection. He was on the shortlist for Germany but was then chosen by Austria to represent them which disqualified him from the German national final. There is also that one Armenian or Albanian singer who did really well a few years ago and she lives in Hamburg. There have been several rumors she might participate in the German national selection for a few years. The only real rule is that you can only represent one country per year but otherwise anyone can represent any country.

I know right, for a second I was like this dude looks so familiar. I also love Eurovision. Basically changed the direction of my life.

Not that much at all, unless they’re hosting. The German numbers are well known to be within the 400.000 to 500.000 euro ball park. So 4% of the total cost at most. Probably much less.

They are the Big 5 because they have the most inhabitans and therefore generate the most spectators

​@@ft4709According to the professor, those 500k would be roughly a 12th (8.5%) of all participation fees (6mln). So Big 5 pay for almost half the participation fees.

@@sollte1239 not really it's becuase they contribute the most to the total budget. it was never about population nor viewership, by your logic Russia would've been a big 5 and Iceland for that matter since it gets almost >95% viewership every year.

@@sollte1239Then, why hasn’t Russia been a Big one ever?

Do these cities meet the requirements? Like amount of available hotels? The issue with Eurovision is that because of the size of the event, you can't really use it to put a smaller city on the map.

Im sure it will be Zurich

I wonder who made it that toxic in the first place ... let me guess the fandom itself; so much for them to wanting a non-political contest when they're the one who brough every political aspect to it from mass voting to actually petitioning to exclude some just because they're not in line with their preferred narratives.

way too much booing

The songs level was much higher than on the latest years.

Sure, it’s a task haven.

Wealth per capita or total wealth? Perhaps that's the issue that 300,000 EUR is a lot for a population of 600k, and previously they cited costs as a reason not to return. With fewer countries now, perhaps the fee got reduced.

First of all do they need to stop hating each other and China or Mainland Chinese need to learn how to be humble otherwise it would be a chaos 😂😂😂

They were going to set up Eurovision Asia a few years back! ('Asiavision' is a news station, they've taken the name already.) There was also a Latin American version back in the 70s.

Eurovision only works in Europe. All efforts to expand the concept have failed.

The most underrated comment!

They spent an insanely amount of money when they hosted it in 2012, not on this year's event :-)

The had to build an arena especially for Eurovision. The 100m would include that.

They are an authoritarian oil dictatorship - of course they are trying to white wash their image.

Azerbaijan is awash with petro-dollars. Or at least it was back in 2012

most of it was to build an arena and it was not only for eurovision it was a long term investment ... literary.

The sponsor doesn't affect the EBU's decision making.

Australian broadcaster SBS is an active member in the EBU.

​@@CZedbySBS is only an Associate member

Israel is in the European Broadcasting Area which is the only geographical criteria for EBU membership and Aus was invited because ESC is a big thing there

Putin is gone nuts.

If you're worried about that, then Eurovision would obviously be the best occasion to visit the host city in a country that's generally not as open minded as others. Eurovision is the most gay-friendly event, the majority of people visiting the host city for it would be gay as well, and the citizens welcoming and accepting in celebration, at least for the duration of the event. If anything, it would've let you visit Croatia with less to worry about. By the way, I don't know much about Croatia but I'm sure in bigger cities it isn't such a problem to be openly gay. And that goes for most countries in Europe really.

As Croatia is staunchly Catholic, LGBT is rare but it is completely acceptable, especially in big cities. They are very friendly people and crime is extremely low so you should not worry about that. But as a Canadian you'd probably need to live in your chosen European country for a bit to qualify.

Do note that Switzerland is also very conservative compared to other parts of Western Europe.

They aren't. People are just curious about the cost

then don't send a bad song! easy.

It doesn't

Russia threatened European sovereignty but Israel didn’t.

Was russia invaded and just retaliated? Even comparing Israel to putler’s Mordor is gravelly antisemitic.

Probably russians killed less people in Ukraine then Isreal together with USA in Gasa. Are there official statistics ?

@@T1hitsTheHighestNote For God's sake, stop calling every opinion ''antisemitic''. Arabs are semites as well.

enough with this narrative!

Great!!!

He doesn't

You’d like that, wouldn’t you? It’s a song contest. Not a political preference contest.

It’s not about political preference. It’s called genocide.

@@64214Jose how is what you said not political? That has nothing to do with Eden Golan or Eurovision Song Contest. You’re trying to make the ESC political. I remind you once again, it’s a song contest. The singers and artists are not politicians, nor do they have anything to do with politics. This shouldn’t be difficult to understand.

@@evolv.e I believe it’s clear enough and I repeat what I wrote: it’s called genocide. It’s not only me who thinks so.

Sometimes politics, as you call it, go beyond any other thing.

You're not able to vote for your own country

Yes, more than ever. People have always been dying of hunger and wars; maybe you're now noticing them more because they're closer to you? Also... if anyone should complain, that would be Ukraine. And yet, they're as enthusiastic as ever. Probably the war made Eurovision even more needed for them, not less. People need to find happiness in something, otherwise they'll just get depressed and give up.

And the audience share is even increasing from year to year

Why are you watching then?

Lol, you obviously don't listen to Eurovision. You surely are of the highest standard when it comes to music...

one man's trash is another man's treasure

Unrespectfull.

The standard definately isn't decreasing

@@Gfynbcyiokbg8710 Everybody I know has lost interest. Only a few years ago every body was glued to the Song Festival.

So what?

Go to Slimane's channel & watch his performance. If that's too slow for you, you might want to look up the Georgian entry Nutsa with Firefighter. If you particularly like disco, then you're out of luck. Denmark tried to enter with a disco song last year or the year before, but didn't get out of the semis. But then again, there are so many new genres in the world since the early 70s, so many more things for people to enjoy. Parents weren't happy when people like jazz, then they weren't happy when that newfangled rock came around & the rock & roll youth hated it when their kids danced to disco. So it's quite normal to dislike new things as you age, though i would urge you to keep an open mind, it's healthier.

Nope

says the ruzzian bot