TVR decided that Romania will not participate this year, after Theodor Andrei did not manage, last year, to obtain any point in the semi-final, registering the worst performance of our country in history.
It was all TVR’s fault, because the participating television stations in each country are responsible for choosing the songs and staging for each competitor qualified in the semifinal of the European competition.
Rather than make fun of ourselves, TVR decided that it’s better not to participate anymore and blamed “financial constraints”, after last year the television representatives left Theodor Andrei alone in front of the critics. They now claim that SRTv’s budget does not allow for the allocation of the necessary funds for Eurovision 2024, given the current year’s priorities: the Paris Summer Olympics and the ongoing re-engineering process.
“Financial constraints and the desire to represent Romania at a high level of performance are the reasons underlying the decision of the Board of Directors (CA) not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) this year,” explained TVR.
But despite financial problems, public television has applied for a broadcast license for two new channels – TVR Sport and TVR Folklor – which, if they follow the model of TVR Info and TVR Cultural (both reintroduced to the grid by 2022), we can expect to have a rating of 0.1 and a market share, on good days, of 0.2%. This means that TikTok’s live streams also reach larger audiences.
Let’s not talk about the new shows that continue to be more and more budgeted, from grid to grid, despite the fact that the rating of TVR 1, the main station in the public trust, is also surpassed in terms of audiences by telenovelas. In the urban environment, TVR ranked only 12th in the March audience ranking, with an average of only 27,050 viewers. As an idea, Happy Channel, a station dedicated to series and telenovelas, manages to gather 3 times more audience in urban areas.
Order of contestants in the first semi-final of Eurovision 2024
This year’s first semi-final will take place today (Tuesday, May 7) and the broadcast starts at 22:00 (local time) for our country. Romanians can watch the broadcast, for free, on the official YouTube channel of the contest.
The order of participating countries is:
- Cyprus: Silia Kapsis – Liar
- Serbia: Teya Dora – Ramonda
- Lithuania: Silvester Belt – Luktelk
- Ireland: Bambie Thug – Doomsday Blue
- United Kingdom: Olly Alexander – Dizzy
- Ukraine: alyona alyona & Jerry Heil – Teresa & Maria
- Poland: Luna – The Tower
- Croatia: Baby Lasagna – Rim Tim Tagi Sun
- Iceland: Hera Björk – Scared of Heights
- Germany: ISAAK – Always On The Run
- Slovenia: Raiven – Veronika
- Finland: Windows95man – No Rules!
- Moldova: Natalia Barbu – In The Middle
- Sweden: Marcus & Martinus – Unforgettable
- Azerbaijan: FAHREE feat. Ilkin Dovlatov – Özünlə Apar
- Australia: Electric Fields – One Milkali (One Blood)
- Portugal: Iolanda – Grito
- Luxembourg: TALI – Fighter
With the exception of the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden (who are already qualified), 10 contestants from Tuesday’s Eurovision 2024 semi-final will advance to the grand final based on public votes.
The second semi-final will take place on May 9, and the grand final is scheduled for May 11. After the second semi-final, the producing broadcaster will determine the running order of the grand final.
It is confirmed that Sweden will perform the number one song in the final. The competition, which is produced by Swedish broadcaster SVT, takes place this year in Malmö, Sweden.
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