EBU has released the rules for the Eurovision song contest 2014 today and while there are no major changes the jury gets underlined thanks to the on going voting irregulations speculations that really exploded this year.
Also, EBU will publish all the individual jury member votes and the split jury and televoting results right after the final. This should make most everyone happy!
The jury members will be made public on May 1, 2014. This blogger is a little bit buzzled about this. What's the point? Isn't it easier to pressure and influence them if we know who they are? On the other hand, it also makes it more difficult in some ways. Maybe that's what EBU thinks wins in the end?
The jury members, five of them in each country, also must work within music industry as radio DJs, artists, composers, lyricists or producers. They must not work for the broadcaster and must be citizens of the country in question. The jury must also be of sufficient representativeness of gender, age and background. Once again they have to rank all the songs (but their own, of course).
and they can't have worked as a jury member the previous two editions.
Read the whole story with comments and full rules here.
And the circus kicks of in Copenhagen Sunday April 27, 2014. The first semifinal in on May 6, the second on May 8 and the grand final on May 10. 2014.
So far they haven't announced when the semifinal allocation will take place but the rehearsal schedule should work out like in Malmö 2013 starting with closed door rehearsals and shorter schedule in every way. It worked wonders in Malmö!
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