A Happy New Year to you all.  We hope you had a great start of 2011. Radio International apologises for the sound problems at the beginning of the webcast should you select "Watch the Show". Full audio is available in the HOUR 1 - 3 as usual.

 

Eurovision Interview with Chiara (Malta 1998, 2005, 2009) and Nimah Kavanagh (Ireland 2010 & Winner 1993): Romania selected their entry to the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest on 31 December 2010. The show was broadcast for five hours and as a special treat star guests such as Johnny Logan who won twice the Eurovision Song Contest as singer (1980 & 1987) and as composer in 1992 when Linda Martin performed "Why me". And Malta's cleanest voice: Chiara who performed her best achivement at the Eurovision Song Contest to date - the great "Angel" which took Malta to Number 2 in 2005. Also Ireland's 1993 winner Niamh Kavanagh was there. However, Niamh performed her 2010 Eurovision entry "It's for you". At the soundcheck for Romanian National Final there was an opportunity for interview the two ladies together with Romanian journalists. Hear this interview during this week's edition of Radio International. But not only this as during the national final Chiara, Niamh Kavanagh, Paula Seling & Ovi performed their version "Happy New Year"  which will open up this year's first edition of Radio International. 

 

Eurovision Interview with Hotel FM (Romania 2011): Romania selected their representative for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest on New Year's Eve 2010. Hotel FM was selected by Televoters and Jury during the national Final which will be representing Romania at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf, Germany next May with the song "Change". David, the leadsinger was interviewed by JP on the stage right after the winning performance on Romanian TV. Congratulations! Click here to see a series of photos.

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Introduction of the Quarterfinals: Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest are in search for the ultimate Eurovision song. Over the past few month there were 12 Heats in which fans voted for their favourite  Eurovision entry.  The over 1100 Eurovision Song Contest entries have been narrowed down to a bit over 100 which will now compete in the Quarterfinals.  During this week's edition of Radio International Andy Simon will join the team in the studio to explain how to continue. 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. A website has also been created to support the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011. You can visit this website by clicking here.

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: National Finals: The national selection season has started and on a weekly basis Radio International will assess the songs with a panel of Eurovision experts - the listeners via the oikotimes.tv chat. This week it is the start with the already selected songs  for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Switzerland, Albania and Romania. For that Dermot Manning will join the team in the studio. 

 

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 the last Quiz: Smiley in Brussels, Belgium. 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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