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Press centre opens 27 November
Junior Eurovision: Televoting all night long
Digame, the German telecommunications company and affiliate of Deutsche Telecom, will once again be responsible for collecting the televotes from around the continent, verifying them and delivering the results to Svante Stockselius. They are also prepared to block any attempts to rig the result, with telephone numbers allowed to make no more than 20 votes.
The official CD and DVD will once again be released. The CD will be available across Europe on November 15th. The DVD will be released soon after the show.
[UPDATE]
Esctoday.com has confirmed that the press centre for journalists will officially open on Monday 27 November, under the hall of the arena in Bucharest. TVR will be providing both desktop machines and printers, as well as many laptop points for the journalists present to ensure speedy news coverage.
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that a good thing know people how like the first song can remember that and vote if they think its the best song sooo far..
well it seams well a good plan then u dont need to wait for voting and then u have more time to vote coz in those 10 minutes I can't decide 
but I still find it need to be 50 % voting and 50% jury
The running order doesn't have that much of an influence on the results, especially since the semi-final was introduced. And even before that - take 2003: Sertab won with song 4; take 1998: Dana International won with song 8. Yes, statistically more winners have come from the second half of the draw, but isn't that just the, er, luck of the draw? Positions 2, 3 and 4 in 2006 came from pretty much the first half of the draw; 2nd, 3rd and 4th did likewise in 2005; the winner and runner-up in 2004 both performed within the first 10 songs; the almost 3-way tie in 2003 was between the very spread out songs 4, 11 and 22; and so on and so forth. It doesn't make that much difference, and the new system of voting is likely to make even less difference.
Seems a bit daft to me!
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Ehm, How did Finland won ESC?
Not thanks to neighbouring voting. To reach the 1st place with 292 points, Finland would have 30 neignbours XD...
This method of voting has been used in Norway national finals for years - and the result has not been in favour for the first drawn songs.
The survival of the ESC depends on the turnover that the contest represents for teh EBU and the national broadcasters. So if this new rule is good for the maintenance of the contest, welcome. On the other hand, let's wait for the results and let's see what will be happen in Helsinki. I do not agree with the argument that people will vote for their favourite country instead of the best song: that will happend with or without the new system !
This idea is not a good one. Here's another method that might work. Tape the show live with the running order in alphabetical order by country name (or singer, composer, whatever). When each brodacaster broadcasts the show (immediately following the taped show, so each broadcaster is still showing the show at the same time across Europe), a computer generated random order is assigned to each broadcaster. Performances are shown in the random order the computer has assigned, and voting phone numbers are designated accordingly.
Then the broadcast goes live again for the reading of the points from each country. The winner is declared live as well.
This is the only way to take out the running order as a factor in the voting. Neighbourly voting cannot be reduced with this method, but very few methods can affect neighbourly voting.
This method requires a great amount of coordination between each broadcaster and the EBU which might make it difficult, but it's the only way to make it as fair as possible. Of course the live audience would not be permitted to take cell phones or cameras into the show as to not leak any info about the performance to the internet or family or friends.
Oh now....the jESC was the role voting for the voting farce this year, hopefully it isn`t a role model for the ESC 07 this time. A voting during the complete show is a bad joke....one has to know ALL the performances before being able to make a decision. What`s wrong with the EBU, they danger the current popularity of the contest with such " experiments ".
Terrible idea... I have not what to say more...
Lol, great idea Carles, lmao, yes - people can now just vote for their favourite country and not even listen to the song!!! So, eurovision 2008 = no songs at all in the contest, just voting for your favourite country!!!!
OK Svante kill the contest once again!
First the stupid semi-final
Then the fast and ununderstanding voting
And now the televoting
Very nice ideas EBU very nice!
Totally agree with yoiu Miguel Lloredo.
This idea solves the problem of the running order, that it was MORE DETERMINANT than neighbour voting, like statistics can prove.
Great idea. The old juries voted each song from 1 to 5 immediately. We will be able to vote for several songs during the contest, and this KILLS THE PROBLEM OF THE RUNNING ORDER because no matter wether a song performs 2nd or 22nd: If we like song number 2, we can vote for it just as the song ends.
Typical knee-jerk reactions from most people. If it's all about neighbour voting, how did Finland win this year? How did Belarus win JESC last year? Enough already with the constant carping about neighbour voting ruining everything!
Great idea... We already knew that many people don't vote for a song, they vote for their neighbouring country. So, let's surrender to this idea: let's them vote as long as it goes, even without having to listen to the songs (what for?). Very clever, they have aknowledged the reality: it's possible to predict the voting, even without listening to the songs.
Next step: are the songs really necessary?
This is not a good idea. People are now going to vote more just for there neighbouring countries. The idea of televoting is to vote your favourlte song in the contest not by country.
@stamati
we have to see first...what the vote will show...
something is telling me the prize will go to sweden...but i cross my fingers for a suprise
Mr Stockselius you are destroying the contest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP for crying out loud!!!!
I think that's an amazing idea.
I think it's a good idea!
Please visit my jesc site!
Would you like to be the head of the jury?
http://www.freewebs.(...)sionvoting/index.htm
Goodbye Eurovision. It was nice knowing you.
@kush athens
well the people will vote for their neighbours first (and i guess will spend several sms on it), then listen to the songs, then... avoid to vote again cause they'll think it will be too expensive.
After that stupid law about revealing the votes, now i'm amazed EBU managed to find something else to go even much more down... "congratulations" is accurate, indeed... and thanks for that wonderfull idea of a jESC that brought these two extremely thoughtful ideas that might mess in the real Eurovision. You definitely rule, guys!
terrible idea. really bad. it seems EBU really needs the extra cash from phones. This system just might signal the end of ESC alltogether. shame!
thsis is going to be a vote for a nation and not the song........... the more neighbours the merrier.
I think that the change in the voting system is BRILLIANT because everyone can vote for their neighbours at the beginning of the show, and then actually listen to find another song that they could vote for- HOPEFULLY NOT ANOTHER NEIGHBOURING NATION.
The EBU has clearly weighed up the pros and cons and come out in favour of the pros. Either that or the telephone companies, eager to make more money out of Eurovision, pressured them into it. But think about it logically: it will be unlikely to increase the effect of 'neighbour voting', as those people (would) vote for their neighbours anyway, and allowing them to do it from the start of the show - even if they get more opportunity to vote - shouldn't have a siginificant effect on the outcome over all (i.e. the total number of votes may be higher, but should be so across the board anyway). It is clearly a system designed to give every song an equal chance: if people see song #3 and think "that was really good", then they can pick up their phone straight away and vote for it. If they had to go through another 21 songs and then choose, they might overlook it, even though they thought it was worthy of voting for in the first place. Besides, the majority of people will still wait to hear all of the songs, because they're unlikely to vote for more than a couple.
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