Eurovision Song Contest: RTV SLO

sábado, 15 de febrero de 2014

Slovenia: EMA participants revealed

Ljubljana, Slovenia - The names of all contestants who are going to take part at EMA 2014 show, scheduled for the 8th of March at 20:00 CET in Ljubljana, were confirmed by Slovenian national broadcaster (RTV SLO) today. Decision about the finalists was made by Slovenian jury panel, whose members were chosen by the executive director of RTV Slovenija.

The expert jury consisted of: Miša Molk (editor of EMA contest), Darja Švajger (professional musician and singer) and Andrea F. (radio music editor, musician and producer), has been listening a lot of songs (between 23rd of January and 5th of February) and finally made decision about who is going to have an opportunity to compete for the role of Slovenian representative at 2014 Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark.
According to RTV SLO, following artists are going to perform at EMA 2014 in March:

Bilbi
Muff
Nermin Puškar and Samuel Lucas
Nude
Omar Naber
Rudi Bučar & Elevators
Tinkara Kovač

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The procedure and criteria for this year’s national selection in Slovenia are quite clear and transparent. Not only that the competing songs need to be "exclusive, up to three minutes long and to reflect musical diversity“, members of the jury panel are also obligated to consensus decision making. They were dealing with a difficult task, considering that 29 authors and publishers took part and 42 songs were submited, listened and evaluated.
All the fans and audience will be informed about contestants and songs in details. Beside news and information that can be found on RTV SLO website, more content will be available on EMA's Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel, very soon too. In other words, preparations in Ljubljana for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in May are in a full swing. And don't forget: EMA 2014 is scheduled for 8th of March at 22:00 CET. Who is going to represent Slovenia in Denmark this year, will be decided through televoting only.

sábado, 25 de enero de 2014

Slovenian EMA scheduled for March

Ljubljana, Slovenia - RTV Slovenija made a decision about taking part in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark, in the very last moment, after deadline was extended for ten days by EBU. In the meantime, Slovenian national broadcaster announced first details about internal selection of artists, who will perform at EMA 2014 show on 8th of March.

The most important details are being set. After a lot of speculations, Miša Molk (Editor of EMA contest) and Aleksander Radić (Head of Slovenian delegation at Eurovision Song Contest) confirmed that decision about the artist who will represent the country in Copenhagen is going to be made through televoting in a TV show scheduled for Saturday, 8th of March at 20:00 CET, on the first channel of RTV Slovenija.
In other words, TV audience will have a final vote, but before that, there will be an internal selection of artists and authors, who are going to be part of EMA 2014 (National selection also known as Evrovizijska melodija). The contest has been traditionally organised since 1993 (except in 1994 and 2000 when Slovenia didn’t take part at Eurovision).

More details to be announced soon!

This TV show has a format that went through a lot of changes and adjustments over the past years, but it always managed to get a lot of attention even outside of the country. EMA has great TV ratings and some of the competing songs usually end up in Slovenian charts and turn into big hits.
Nevertheless, more details about EMA 2014 are going to be announced in the following weeks.
For those who missed the Allocation Draw for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest held on Monday, 20th of January in Copenhagen – Slovenia will take part in second half of the Second Semi-Final, on Thursday, 8th of May.
In the previous Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö (2013), this country was represented by Hannah Mancini with the song Straight Into Love (check the video). However, she didn’t manage to qualify for the Final.