Eurovision Song Contest Finale To Air LIVE Exclusively on Logo on May 14
The World's Biggest Music and Entertainment Show that Launched the Careers of Icons ABBA, Olivia Newton-John, and Celine Dion Airs Live and Commercial Free Saturday, May 14 Exclusively on Logo and LogoTV.com
New York, NY, May 02, 2016 – Logo announced today that the network will be the first U.S. home of the annual Eurovision Song Contest and will air the 61st annual Grand Final live and commercial free on Saturday, May 14 at 3PM ET on Logo. The 2016 Grand Final competition and winner's ceremony will also be streamed exclusively in the U.S. on www.logotv.com and the LogoTV mobile app.
For a look at the Eurovision Song Contest visit: http://logo.to/23ew8xw.
The Eurovision Song Contest, organized by the European Broadcasting Union, is the world's largest non-sporting live TV event and the most watched live entertainment program in Europe, attracting nearly 200 million television viewers worldwide last year alone. This year's spectacular 2016 Grand Final competition, celebrating the theme "Come Together," will be held in Stockholm, Sweden. The competition will feature acts representing 42 countries battling for the coveted trophy as well as the chance to host next year's contest in their home country.
Eurovision is known for its eclectic mix of power ballads, ethnic rhythms, and bubblegum pop, paired with intricate lighting sequences, pyrotechnics, and elaborate costumes. Over its storied 60 year history, the contest has catapulted the likes ofCeline Dion, Olivia Newton-John, Julio Iglesias, and ABBA to stardom. Last year's winner Måns Zelmerlöw of Sweden wowed audiences with his song "Heroes," and two years ago viewers across the world were blown away when Eurovision's 2014 champion, Conchita Wurst of Austria, took home the trophy after a performance of "Rise Like a Phoenix." Conchita ignited a wave of buzz as the first drag performer to win the contest.
Each member country of the European Broadcasting Union will submit a song to be performed during two Eurovision Semi-Finals. Winners of the Semi-Finals move on to compete in the 2016 Grand Final competition on Saturday, May 14. This year's winner will be chosen based on a brand new voting system. In the biggest change to Eurovision voting since 1975, professional juries and televoters will award a separate set of points to each performance and ensure the finale winner will remain unpredictable up until the last moment.
The 61st annual Eurovision Song Contest is produced by Swedish Host Broadcaster, SVT, and will be held at the Globe Arena in Stockholm.
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About The European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the world's foremost alliance of public service media (PSM). Our mission is to make PSM indispensable. We have 73 Members in 56 countries in Europe, and an additional 34 Associates in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Our Members operate over 1,800 television and radio channels together with numerous online platforms. Together, they reach audiences of more than one billion people around the world, broadcasting in more than 120 languages. We are one EBU with two distinct fields of activity: member services and business services. Our member services strive to secure a sustainable future for public service media, provide our Members with a centre for learning and sharing and build on our founding ethos of solidarity and co-operation to provide an exchange of world-class news, sports news and music. Our business services – operating under the Eurovision brand – are the media industry's premier distributor and producer of high-quality live news, sport and entertainment with over 70,000 transmissions and 100,000 hours of news and sport every year. We have offices in Brussels, Rome, Dubai, Moscow, New York, Washington DC, Singapore and Beijing. Our headquarters are in Geneva. Discover more about the EBU on www.ebu.ch. Follow us @EBU_HQ
About Eurovision Song Contest
In 1956, the European Broadcasting Union, the world's foremost alliance of public service broadcasters, created the Eurovision Song Contest to foster closer ties between nations and to advance television technology. The Eurovision Song Contest is the world's largest non-sporting live TV event. It is a musical competition between public broadcasting organisations which are Members of the EBU. The Eurovision Song Contest was first held in Lugano, Switzerland in 1956 and has been held every year since. 40 cities have welcomed the competition in 25 different countries. 51 countries have competed at least once. 26 countries have won the Eurovision Song Contest at least once. In 2015, The Eurovision Song Contest reached 199 million TV viewers and on the occasion of its 60th edition was awarded the Guinness World Record for "World's Longest Running Annual TV Music Competition". 42 countries will participate in the 61st Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden on 10, 12 and 14 May.
