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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

Off to Armenia and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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I’m sitting in the lounge at Edinburgh Airport, ready to board another flight to adventure. This time it’s in Yerevan, which I think will be as far east as I have ever been (or at least it will be for the next six months). Armenia is hosting the ninth Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and I’m joining Sharleen Wright and Steven Newby to cover the contest for ESC Insight. It’s not as popular with the Eurovision sites as the main Contest, but the camaraderie and sprit will probably mean that we all pitch in and help out on each other’s websites,

Junior Eurovision 2011 and the first Juke Box Jury round

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There’s another Eurovision Song Contest around the corner (Junior Eurovision will be on Dec 3rd, and broadcast from Yerevan, Armenia). Leading up to the contest, the traditional preview shows on the Eurovision podcast will be running, but this time the regular guests on Juke Box Jury have been stood down. It’s Junior Eurovision, so that means Junior Juke Box Jury and the kids from Duncan Place deciding on a Hit, Miss, or Maybe. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/UnofficialEurovisionSongContestPodcast116/escinsight_20111118_116_JJBJ2011_1.mp3] Round 1 has the songs from hosts Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belgium. As always, more fun and games at ESC Insight, along with a bundle of