Eurovision makes a round of news in Italy again when Pippo Baudo (host of 13 Sanremos being also the musical director of most of them) in a talk show furiously attacks Eurovision praising Sanremo. He also proved he is completely out of touch with the reality of Eurovision saying "it has no success. It is just trash made for German TV!" when we can compare Sanremo to Eurovision: last year Sanremo was broadcasted live besides Italy only in Albania and Kosovo, while Eurovision gathered 122 million viewers all around the world. Alexander Rybak entered top-10 in iTunes in most European countries hitting number one in several. He even entered the Italian one. Who has heard the winning song from Sanremo 2009 raise your hand now! No one. Thought so. He also insist of calling it "Eurocanzone" or Eurosong while the commonly known name in Italy for Eurovision is Eurofestival. Then he goes on telling "German TV produces only programmes for idiots" One can only think that while these crampy old men - Baudo is 74 - are running and ruling RAI with their idiotic ideas and memories of the Sanremo's glory days Italy will not enter Eurovision again. One must though give Baudo's Sanremos credit for bringing us names like Zucchero, Laura Pausini, Andrea Bocelli, Giorgia and Eros Ramazzotti just to name a few but that was a long time ago. Eurovision moved ahead but Sanremo is stuck in its past. Raffaella Carrá at least tried, but RAI stopped her short last year.
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