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Swedish Televoting Results: Norway Top, Spain Bottom

Swedish Eurovision heart ©  EBU

Swedish broadcaster, SVT has revealed the full results of the public phone vote. Unsurprisingly, Norway came out on top.

Celebration of Swedens National (holi)day in Stockholm

Marie Serneholt ©  EuroVisionary, Viktoria Karlsson

This Saturday 6th June, the Swedes will be celebrating their national holiday. There will be various activities from all over Sweden broadcast on SVT, activities such as performances of former participants from Melodifestivalen. There will also be a soccer game where Sweden meets their neighbour Denmark on Saturday night.

No Press Charges Against SVT Representatives

Christer Björkman ©  Viktoria Karlsson EuroVisionary

In February, someone reported representatives from Swedish broadcaster SVT to the police as he thought that there had been misleading information from SVT considering which rules are used to pick out songs for Melodifestivalen. 

Melodifestivalen 2009 – This is the first 8 songs!

Marie Serneholt © Sony BMG

On Wednesday night Swedish journalists had the chance to listen to the eight songs that will battle on Saturday for the 2 places in the final. Of course EuroVisionary was there.

SVT announces the first names for Melodifestivalen 2009

BWO2009 © SVT

SVT has now announced the first eight singers who are going to perform at next years swedish national selection Melodifestivalen. Big and well known names here are Måns Zelmerlöw, BWO and Alcazar.

Melodifestivalen Cities For 2009 Revealed

Globen (The Globe Arena), Stockholm, Sweden ©  Fredrik Posse/Stryngford Photo

Swedish broadcaster SVT has now revealed which cities will play host to Melodifestivalen 2009. There are no surprises this year as each of the cities hosted Melodifestivalen semi-finals before.

Better promotion for Swedish Eurovision participants

SVT to promote Swedish participants even stronger

Swedish broadcaster SVT aims to make a stronger connection between Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest. This will bring better promotion for their participants and, hopefully, better results, although Charlotte Perrelli finished 18th despite a big European tour in private jet.

Allsång på Skansen 2008 full program

Allsång på Skansen © SVT

The program for SVT’s popular series of open air sing along concerts offers many familiar names in the 2008 edition, where Arja Saijonmaa, Sanna Nielsen, BWO, Christer Sjögren and Maria Haukaas Storeng are among the many who will be performing at Skansen during the summer.

Svante Stockselius at SVT’s Agenda

Carl Bildt and Svante Stockselius © Aftonbladet

Serbia prepares for two major events in the next two weeks, a pre-term parliamentary election on May 11th and, of course, the Eurovision Song Contest, for which rehearsals start the same day. Carl Bildt and Svante Stockselius discussed safety in relation to Belgrade last night on Swedish TV.

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