http://www.escdaily.com The latest Eurovision 2012 news from across Europe Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:02:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.escdaily.com/malta-this-is-the-night-to-baku/ http://www.escdaily.com/malta-this-is-the-night-to-baku/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:23:07 +0000 Luke G (United Kingdom) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31684
Malta’s Eurovision selection has just finished, and after a some very close voting, “This is the night”, performed by Kurt Calleja has won the competition; and will be Malta’s twenty-fifth entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. His song was the […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/malta-this-is-the-night-to-baku/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/live-maltese-national-selection/ http://www.escdaily.com/live-maltese-national-selection/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:47:44 +0000 Luke G (United Kingdom) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31606
Tonight’s Maltese national selection will be held live from the Malta Fairs and Convention Centre; hosted by Elaine Saliba and Ronald Briffa, joined by presenter Frank Zammit from backstage. The show will feature sixteen songs and a number of interval […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/live-maltese-national-selection/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/lithuania-first-semi-final-concluded/ http://www.escdaily.com/lithuania-first-semi-final-concluded/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:46:34 +0000 Luke G (United Kingdom) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31680
The first semi-final of Lithuania’s Eurovision selection has concluded tonight, in a nine song show hosted by Darius Užkuraitis & Liepa Kiauleikytė. Three songs from the semi-final have qualified to the final of the show, which will take place on […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/lithuania-first-semi-final-concluded/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/hungary-final-line-up-announced/ http://www.escdaily.com/hungary-final-line-up-announced/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:18:25 +0000 Rinor Nuhiu (Albania) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31653
Tonight, Hungary held it’s first semi-final of “A Dal”, the contest that is going to choose the Hungarian entry for this year’s Eurovision in Baku, Azerbaijan. Three acts were chosen by the jury voting, while the other one by the […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/hungary-final-line-up-announced/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/results-first-semi-final-in-melodifestivalen-completed/ http://www.escdaily.com/results-first-semi-final-in-melodifestivalen-completed/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:08:31 +0000 Miceal O'Kane (Ireland) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31554
The 2012 series of Melodifestivalen, the Swedish show to select the Scandanavian countries’ Eurovision 2012 participant begun with a bang tonight, from the VIDA Arena in Växjö. The show, produced and broadcast by SVT was hosted by Sarah Dawn Finer, […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/results-first-semi-final-in-melodifestivalen-completed/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/norway-melodi-grand-prix-semifinal-three-qualifiers/ http://www.escdaily.com/norway-melodi-grand-prix-semifinal-three-qualifiers/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:53:12 +0000 Alvis Jansons (Latvia) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31561
The third and final semifinal of “Melodi Grand Prix” has just ended in Norway, and another three artists are already one step closer to representing the country at Eurovision 2012. This week’s semi-final of the competition took place in the […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/norway-melodi-grand-prix-semifinal-three-qualifiers/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/live-a-dal-second-semi-final/ http://www.escdaily.com/live-a-dal-second-semi-final/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:14:44 +0000 Rinor Nuhiu (Albania) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31564
  Good Evening Europe! Welcome to the second semi-final of this year’s “A Dal”. Tonight, a total of ten songs are going to perform, where three of them will be qualifying by the jury votes and one will be chosen […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/live-a-dal-second-semi-final/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/live-semi-final-one-from-vaxjo/ http://www.escdaily.com/live-semi-final-one-from-vaxjo/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:04:54 +0000 Miceal O'Kane (Ireland) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31539
Tonight, annual Swedish show “Melodifestivalen” will begin in Växjö; with the first semi-final of the competition to choose the countries’ participant for Eurovision 2012. Sarah Dawn Finer, Gina Dirawi and Helena Bergström all taking hosting roles for the series. In […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/live-semi-final-one-from-vaxjo/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/live-melodi-grand-prix-third-semi-final/ http://www.escdaily.com/live-melodi-grand-prix-third-semi-final/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:52:55 +0000 Alvis Jansons (Latvia) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31548
Tonight the third semifinal of Norway’s “Melodi Grand Prix” heads to the next city; Florø. The Norwegian national selection for this years’ Eurovision Song Contest will see 8 acts compete in each semifinal, with three going to the final every […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/live-melodi-grand-prix-third-semi-final/feed/ 0 http://www.escdaily.com/moldova-internet-wildcard-round-begins/ http://www.escdaily.com/moldova-internet-wildcard-round-begins/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:17:21 +0000 Luke G (United Kingdom) http://www.escdaily.com/?p=31547
An internet voting round to choose a wildcard for Moldova‘s Eurovision 2012 selection has begun. Fifty-three songs were perfrormed in front of the competition jury last weekend, who chose twenty to take part in the live final on March 10th. […]]]> http://www.escdaily.com/moldova-internet-wildcard-round-begins/feed/ 0