Celebrate a Eurovision Christmas with Radio International: We are fast approaching the festive season and this week Radio International will play as many requests from the listeners as possible, if it is Eurovision entries or Christmas songs performed by Eurovision artists. Join in and send in your requests by clicking here or send it via the oikotimes.tv chat room during the show. 

 

Eurovision 2011 - Romania's National Final: Romania selects their representative for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest on New Year's Eve - the last day of 2010. Since Radio International next week is in a special programming we bring you already this week a look into the Romanian Final and play you clips of the competing songs out of which one will be representing Romania at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf, Germany next May.  

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Qualifiers of Heat 12: Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest will be announcing during the show this week the ten qualifiers of Heat 12 of what the international juries have been voting for. On the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, one could vote for your ten favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest amongst the final hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Two weeks ago Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of Heat 11 and now Heat 12 is closed and the results will be announced during the show by Andy Simon, who is one of the prime organiser of Euro Friends Song Contest 2011.  Next will be the Quarter Finals and Andy will explain how it works during the show. But you also can contact Andy on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.    

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: Germany: In view of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Germany, Radio International's four regular Eurovision Experts will be joining us in turn week by week to review all the German entries of the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 to 2010. Ross Bennett is back to continue with the review of the German entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - 2010.  This marks the end of this particular series. In 2011in this slot Radio International assesses the National Preselections for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2010 - The Result: Radio International continues the support of this songwriters competition also in 2010. Austria virtually hosted this contest this year and visitors to the website of the OGAE Austria could cast their vote until 31 October 2010 to their favourite songs. The Voting Show is now available online here and shortly the overview table will be displayed here. Radio International will be producing a show with the Top 15 of this year's Home Composed Song Contest to be broadcast on 29 December 2010. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest News:  Luke Fisher joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly edition of Radio International. Also check out the occasational appearance of Zoran Kovacic from Serbia on Radio International bringing us some Eurovision News in his style.

In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Quiz:  Scratch your heads and bite your nails at  our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send your answers via the website's CONTACTs form or via the msn-chat This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of last week's Quiz: Matthias Breitinger from Berlin, Germany. Congratulations!

 

Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and let us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual convention.

 

Upcoming Fan Club Events: 

22 Jan - OGAE Germany Convention, Munic, Germany

Eurovision Song Contest Interviews the Radio International Team has done with the Eurovision performers can be heard by visiting our Eurovision section of this website or check out the Radio International goes.... part of the website. The 2010 Eurovision Interviews have not yet been displayed there. You can find them as part of the weekly editions of Radio International. You can go through the Show Archive to find interviews by using search. 

 

Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this week these requests will be added to the play list for the future shows. 

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