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Who were the winners of Eurovision 2013?

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Just because you finish first does not mean you were the actual winner… even at The Eurovision Song Contest: To decide who was this year’s biggest winner, you have to actually define what it means to ‘win Eurovision’. It’s not as simple as finishing in first place on the Saturday night. While ‘Only Teardrops‘ is going to stay in the Song Contest record books, after the National Final guest appearances with a playback tape, it’s unlikely we’ll hear again from Emmelie de Forest. While you can still hear ‘Euphoria‘ on the beaches of São Paulo, Denmark’s 2013 winner will be

Tonight’s the night I head into the history books of Eurovision commentary

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Starting at 6pm tonight in the UK (7pm Central Europe, and 8pm local time in Ukraine) is the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013. For once I won’t be in the Press Centre, or directly in front of the stage. Tonight, I’ll be with Luke Fisher in the Commentary Booth for the European Broadcasting Union. The Eurovision Song Contests have had free and official streams for many years, but until now they have been the pictures and the stage audio only – the traditional commentators role has not been part of the EBU’s stream. That’s changed for this Song Contest. My good

Hello, I’m Ewan Spence, and I’ll be the United Kingdom’s Eurovision Commentator later this month

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This year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place at 6pm (UK time) November 30th at the National Place of Arts “Ukraina” in Kyiv, and for the first time since 2005 it will be broadcast in the UK. No Eurovision show airing in the UK would be complete without a commentary team, so I am very excited to tell you that I will be one of the UK’s Eurovision Commentators. Joining me will be Luke Fisher, who many of you will have heard on our Alternative Commentaries over the last few years. I guess we won’t be doing an alternative commentary this

Die Grosse Entscheidungs Show will be in the same year as Eurovision, for once.

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Just like that, the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 inches ever closer. Switzerland confirm the format and the dates for their National Final (February 1st 2014, Kreuzlingen), and I grab the usual hotel through Booking.com and get the flights lined up. (…and if this had said ‘Football club gets draw announced for European game, I’ve bought tickets’, it would be socially acceptable).

Settle in for the second Eurovision Semi-Final

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Just before the second semi final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest gets under way, you have time to download the mobile app from ESC Insight, EscXtra, and The Lab (powered by O2) from the iOS store. Head to bit.ly/esccommentary to download it. I’ve also put together a ‘Spotters Guide‘ to some of the highlights for the show tonight on ESC Insight. Enjoy!