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Eurovision Song Contest 2010
"Share The Moment"
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Semi-final 1 25 May 2010
Semi-final 2 27 May 2010
Final 29 May 2010
Host broadcaster Norway NRK
Venue Telenor Arena,
Bærum, Oslo, Norway[1]
Number of entries 39[2]
Debuting countries None
Returning countries  Georgia
Withdrawing countries  Andorra
 Czech Republic
 Hungary
 Montenegro
Participation Map
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 will be the 55th Eurovision Song Contest. The contest will take place at the Telenor Arena, in the municipality suburb of Bærum, which is situated in the southern part of the Greater Oslo, Norway. This follows Alexander Rybak's win at the 2009 Contest with "Fairytale". It will be the third time Norway has hosted the contest, having previously done so in 1986 and 1996. The semi-finals will take place on 25 and 27 May 2010, with the final on 29 May 2010.[1][3] It has been announced that the voting system used in the semi-finals will change from previous years to balance jury voting with televoting, while the return of the orchestra is also being proposed. 39 countries will take part in the contest,[4] with Georgia[5] returning to the contest, while Andorra,[6] the Czech Republic,[7][8] Hungary,[9] and Montenegro[10][11] withdraw. Lithuania originally announced their withdrawal from the competition, but was later among the 39 confirmed participants released by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).[12][4]

Contents

Venue

Telenor Arena

150 million Norwegian kroner (€17 million) was the venue budget agreed upon by Trond Giske and Hans-Tore Bjerkaas, respectively the Norwegian Minister for Culture and the head of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).[13][14] This represents a larger budget than that allotted in the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, but is not as much as the budget in Moscow for 2009.[13]

At a press conference in Oslo on 27 May 2009, it was announced that the show will be held in the Oslo metropolitan area. NRK argued that Oslo was the only city with the required capacity, venues, and infrastructure to hold the show. On 3 July 2009, it was decided that the venue will be the newly constructed Telenor Arena, in the municipality of Bærum neighbouring Oslo.[15] The Oslo Spektrum was ruled out to host the contest due to its smaller size and capacity.[1]

Visual design

NRK announced the theme art, slogan and design for the Contest on 4 December 2009, during the Host City Insignia Exchange between the Mayors of Moscow, Oslo and Bærum, marking the official kick-off of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 season.[16]

Presenters

NRK have not yet announced who will present the 2010 Contest, however the Norwegian media have discussed possible presenters. NRK hosts Jon Almaas and Fredrik Skavlan of Nytt på nytt and Først & sist, respectively, are amongst the ones being discussed, while the popular TV 2 duo Thomas Numme and Harald Rønneberg came in first during a voting-campaign that Dagbladet had posted on its website where readers could vote on the celebrity they would wanted to present the contest the most. The well known TV 2 presenter Dorthe Skappel has expressed interest in presenting the contest ceremony, and came second on Dagbladet's poll.[17]

Format

Voting

See also: Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest

On 11 October 2009 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced that the format of the semi-finals will be changed so that the results will be determined by a combination of 50% national jury and 50% televoting, making it more consistent with the final. Each country's votes will be determined by combining the jury votes and the televoting results; the countries with the top ten highest points in each semi-final will qualify to participate in the final of the contest.[18] This replaces the semi-final format used in the 2008 and 2009 contests in which the countries with the top nine highest points from the televoting results in each semi-final qualified for the final. The tenth semi-final place was then given to the country with the highest number of points from the jury's votes which had not already qualified for the final from the televoting results.[19] On 26 October 2009 the EBU announced that the voting would be open throughout the competition and would conclude 15 minutes after the end of the very last song.[20]

Possible return of the orchestra

A number of fans began a campaign on social networking site Facebook to return the orchestra to the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, for the first time since 1998, with close to 4,000 people joining. The orchestra, used from the first contest in 1956, was dropped after the 1998 Contest due to rapid developments in music technology, which made backing tracks more useful. The debate on whether to return the orchestra to the contest has occurred since, with no such change planned by the EBU.[21][22]

Jan Fredrik Heyerdahl of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra has said that they would be interested in participating in the contest next year, given that the EBU and NRK agree. Some challenges may face their attempt, such as the fact that the number of participating entries has increased from 25 to around 40 since the last time an orchestra was seen on the Eurovision stage, with more than 40 entries now competing every year.[21][22]

Participants

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Finalists

  • The final is scheduled for 29 May 2010 in Telenor Arena, Baerum, Oslo, Norway.
  • 'The Big Four' and the host country, Norway, are directly qualified to the final.
  • From the two semi-finals on 25 and 27 May 2010, 20 countries will qualify to the final. A total of 25 countries will fight for the victory.
  • The voting system used will be the same as the 2009 Contest, with a combination of televote and jury votes.
  • The draw for the running order will take place on 22 March 2010.
Country Language Artist Song English translation
 France
 Germany TBD 12 March 2010
 Norway TBD 6 February 2010
 Spain
 United Kingdom

Semi-finalists

  • The semi-finals are scheduled to be held on 25 and 27 May 2010 in Telenor Arena, Baerum, Oslo, Norway.
  • A total of 34 countries will compete in the semi-finals; 17 in each semi-final.
  • The 10 countries in each semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to a combination of televote and jury votes in each voting country, will qualify for the final.
  • The draw which countries will compete in their respective semi-finals will be held in mid-February. There will also be a draw to decide which semi-final countries which qualify directly to the final will vote in.[4]
  • The draw for the running order will take place on 22 March 2010.
Country Language Artist Song English translation
 Albania Albanian[23] Juliana Pasha[24][25] "Nuk mundem pa ty" I can't be without you
 Armenia TBD February 2010
 Azerbaijan
 Belarus
 Belgium Tom Dice[26][27][28]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina TBD 11 January 2010 TBD 7 March 2010
 Bulgaria Miro[29][30] TBD February 2010[31]
 Croatia Croatian TBD 6 March 2010
 Cyprus English[32][33] TBD 7 February 2010
 Denmark TBD 6 February 2010
 Estonia TBD 12 March 2010[34]
 Finland TBD 30 January 2010
 Georgia
 Greece TBD 19 February 2010
 Iceland TBD 6 February 2010
 Ireland TBD March 2010
 Israel Harel Skaat[35][36] TBD February 2010
 Latvia TBD 27 February 2010
 Lithuania
 Macedonia TBD February 2010
 Malta English[37] TBD 20 February 2010
 Moldova TBD January 2010
 Netherlands Dutch[38][39] TBD 7 February 2010 "Ik ben verliefd, Shalalie"[40] I'm in love, Shalalie
 Poland TBD 14 February 2010
 Portugal Portuguese[41] TBD 6 March 2010
 Romania TBD 6 March 2010
 Russia TBD 7 March 2010
 Serbia
 Slovakia Slovak[42] TBD 28 February 2010
 Slovenia Slovene[43] TBD March 2010
 Sweden TBD 13 March 2010
 Switzerland French[44] Michael von der Heide[44] "Il pleut de l'or"[44] It's raining gold
 Turkey maNga[45][46]
 Ukraine Vasyl Lazarovich[47][48]

Returning countries

Georgia has announced it will be returning to the contest. The country withdrew in 2009 due its entry, "We Don't Wanna Put In", being disallowed due to political references which violated contest rules.[5]

Non-returning countries

The EBU announced that they would work harder to bring back Austria, Italy, and Monaco to the 2010 Contest.[49] In September 2009 the EBU's director Bjørn Erichsen stated during an EBU press conference that "Austria will be back", and that the EBU "has reasons to believe that Luxembourg and Liechtenstein" will also participate and that "now we are only missing Italy".[50][51][52] In late October 2009, the 2010 Contest project manager Ola Sand has stated that "countries such as Monaco and Luxembourg have indicated that they wish to participate in next year's competition in Norway".[50][53]

Representatives of broadcasters of Austria, Monaco and Luxembourg have denied their participation in the contest. Wolfgang Lorenz, the programme director of the Austrian broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), informed Austria will not take part in the competition stating that the contest has been "ruined by the regulations".[54] Télé Monte Carlo (TMC) has also declared that Monaco will not be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest for the 2010 Edition, mainly due to a lack of finances to send a Monegasque entry.[55] The RTL Group had announced that they were having serious discussions regarding a possible comeback for Luxembourg in the contest for the first time since 1993, but later confirmed that the country will not be present for the 2010 Contest either.[56] San Marino also considered returning to the competition in 2010. However after delibirations with Italian artists, including Italian sister duo Paola & Chiara, Sammarinnese broadcaster Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV) was informed to withhold returning after failing to receive funding from the Sammarinnese parliament or sponsors.[57]

Withdrawing countries

From July to December 2009, five countries who participated in the 2009 contest announced that they will withdraw to 2010. The Czech Republic declared that it will leave the contest due to a lack of interest from Czech viewers after three successive semi-final failures since their debut in 2007.[7][8]

Andorra's broadcaster Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra (RTVA) announced a 10% reduction in its spending budget for 2010.[58] RTVA had submitted a preliminary application to take part in the contest.[59] However, being unable to secure extra funds by 11 December 2009, they have decided to withdraw from the 2010 Contest.[6] After their withdrawal many former Andorran Eurovision Song Contest contestants expressed their "disappointment" in RTVA's decision to withdraw, and the lack of publicity the country will now receive by not being contestants in the contest.[60] Hungary will withdraw from the 2010 Contest, due to financial difficulties of the national broadcaster Magyar Televízió (MTV).[9] Montenegro and the Montenegrin broadcaster Radiotelevizija Crne Gore (RTCG) will also withdraw due to financial problems, in a way to reach financial consolidation after three years as an independent state.[10][11]

Lithuania's broadcaster Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (LRT) initially announced their formal withdrawal from the contest after failing to achieve the necessary funds of 300,000 litas (€90,000) for participation.[12] It was later confirmed by the EBU that Lithuania would indeed participate in Oslo.[4] Funding was eventually given by Lithuanian company Teo LT, which allowed Lithuania to participate in the contest.[61]

Future contestants

Liechtenstein's only broadcaster 1FLTV (1 Fürstentum Liechtenstein Television) is applying to join the EBU. 1FLTV's programme director Peter Kolbel had confirmed interest in Liechtenstein's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest as soon as full EBU membership is granted, which may have happened in December 2009. Thus they were getting ready to debut in 2010, considering a national final concept similar to the German version of the Idol series – Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS).[50][62] In November 1FLTV decided against applying for EBU membership in December for financial reasons, ruling out a debut in at the 2010 contest. The broadcaster will now look at other options for funding EBU membership in the future.[63][64]

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