2010 Eurovision Song Contest

噚日係一年一度嘅Eurovision Song Contest. 我好鍾意睇,仲好期待添. 點知今年奧地利唔播喎.急急搵吓德國or瑞士邊個台會播啦.居然我住嗰間酒店冇呢兩個台(我又出咗門喇). 唯有睇網上直播.

據報導,今年大熱係德國同阿塞拜疆(我唔明阿塞拜疆點會係歐洲囉). 而我緊係支持德國啦. 佢首歌一日播到黑,我都識唱.

 
 睇睇吓英法都幾好喎.
 

最後冠軍係...德國

By IAN MacDOUGALL, Associated Press Writer Ian Macdougall, Associated Press Writer –

OSLO, Norway – Musicians from 25 countries were vying for pop supremacy Saturday in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest — but even the glitzy annual extravaganza showed the strains of Europe's financial woes.

Oil-rich Norway has spent 200 million kroner ($31 million) to host the elaborate songfest, but several countries have pulled out of the competition, including the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Andorra and Hungary.

Observers also fear that the voting for the winner — a political consideration even in the best of times — will be affected by the continent's simmering financial tensions. The Greek government debt crisis and a subsequent European Union-led bailout has strained relations within the 27-nation bloc.

"It may be the Germans won't vote for the Greeks this year because they are not so popular in Germany right now," said Inge Solmo, a Norwegian Eurovision expert.
The competition is decided by a panel of judges and telephone voting by the participating countries. Fans cannot vote for their own nation's entry.
The Mediterranean country's woes were compounded when a Greek private TV channel had its accreditation revoked after it broadcast unlicensed footage of a dress rehearsal for the final.
Still, organizers expect some 125 million TV viewers to watch Saturday's final — the 55th anniversary of Europe's largest song competition.
Bookmakers favor Azerbaijan's 17-year-old chanteuse Safura, but a Google Eurovision predictor program has projected that Germany's Lena Meyer-Landrut will win.

Earlier this week, 34 contestants were whittled down to 20. They will compete in the final with five pre-qualified countries — last year's winner, Norway, and the contest's four perennials: Britain, Germany, France and Spain.

Norway is hosting the 2010 contest near Oslo because its representative, fiddler Alexander Rybak, won last year in Moscow.

Politically motivated voting, as well as bloc voting, has been fairly common in Eurovision. Former Soviet bloc countries have tended to support one another, helping the region win five of the last nine contests.

The victorious nation wins the right to host the next year's event — an honor that austerity-minded governments may decide to refuse.

"If Azerbaijan wins, I don't know how they could finance the show next year," Solmo said.

If the winning country can't or won't host the show, Eurovision officials have in the past turned to Britain's BBC or the national broadcaster of another wealthy country to be the host, he said.