The organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest says it will start talks with the BBC on possibly holding next year’s event in the U-K after concluding it cannot be held in Ukraine.The event is traditionally staged by the previous year’s winner. UK are the reigning 2022 Eurovision Song Contest Champions. Last month, Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 contest pushing Britain into the runner-up spot thanks to a surge of popular votes from viewers.The European Broadcasting Union concluded today the contest can’t be held in Ukraine sadly because of the current conditions and Russian invasion.
Ukraine’s public broadcaster, UA:PBC staged the event in 2005 and 2017. The European Broadcasting Union said it had carried out “a full assessment and feasibility study” on the possibility of it doing so again. It said the contest is one of the world’s most complex television productions and needs 12 months of preparation time.
The contest’s governing board the EBU said in a statement “has with deep regret concluded that, given the current circumstances, the security and operational guarantees required for a broadcaster to host, organize and produce the Eurovision Song Contest” under the event’s rules cannot be fulfilled by the Ukrainian broadcaster.
It said it shares the broadcaster’s “sadness and disappointment that next year’s Contest cannot be held in Ukraine.”
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