The Board of Directors (CA) of SRTv at its meeting on Tuesday approved the budget for Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2023. The members of the Board unanimously voted to allocate the necessary resources for the organization of the national selection, the preparation of Romania’s show for the international competition and the team’s trip to Great Britain.
Romania’s Eurovision team offers a new approach to this year’s National Selection: “We are a new team and we offer a different Eurovision contest, based on transparency, professionalism and digitization. We have changed the voting system: only the public will choose the work that will represent Romania. And one more thing: this Eurovision will be on the air, on TVR and will be much more present than the past on the Internet, in social networks,” said Mihai Predescu, head of the ESC 2023 project, according to News.ro.
In the coming days, the team will finalize all the details related to the registration at the National Selection and will inform them as soon as possible: “The registration period for the competition will start soon, come with us!”, Mihai Predescu’s appeal to the composers.
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Ukraine’s Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will be held in Great Britain, in Liverpool
The Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 will be held in Great Britain from Ukraine due to the war started by Russia. The event will be held at the Liverpool Arena and will consist of two semi-finals, on 9 and 11 May, with the final taking place on 13 May 2023.
Great Britain, which has hosted Eurovision eight times, has not hosted the European music competition since 1998, when the show was held in Birmingham, a city in central England.
After the first place at the contest organized in Turin in May of this year, Ukraine was withdrawn in June by the European Radio and Television Union (EBU) the right to hold the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, as security conditions cannot be met in the country. Ukraine after this country was captured by Russia on February 24.
On July 25, the EBU and the UK government announced an agreement with the BBC to host the competition next year in Great Britain, the country that came second in the 2022 ranking behind Ukraine, which won with the Kalush Orchestra. At that time, 20 British cities took part in the competition for Eurovision 2023 from Ukraine.
Recognized by UNESCO as a City of Music in 2015, Liverpool is synonymous with the history of The Beatles and has a rich music scene. In 2008, Liverpool hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards and is also home to a prestigious orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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