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Tonight saw the second semi-final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was arguably a harder semi to call than the first one, resulting in a few fairly major casualties - most notably, the feared Balkan domination failed to materialise, with...
Tonight, the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be held! Once again, 18 entries will compete for the privilege of ending up in one of the 10 envelopes for the final. As in semi 1, nine envelopes will be digital (as they have been in recent...
As we did already for semi 1, we are again running our own little 2nd chance poll! In today's semi-final 2, 18 participants will be competing for 10 available tickets for the final on Saturday. But on their way to this semi-final, many countries had to leave some of...
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the second semi-final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest! The show begins at 15:00 CET, also join the chat for our Live-Chat, where we can comment directly from the press centre. 18:03 And we're...
Salam again dear readers from Baku, where we've managed to drag ourselves to the Press Centre for the EBU press conference this afternoon despite not getting back to the apartment until 7am - that's the perils of the show starting at midnight for you! We had a rather...
We surely all still discuss yesterday's show and results, but already today, the dress rehearsals for semi-final 2 begin. We take the first one again to do our rolling blog and live chat directly from Baku! So what's our plan? At 15:00 CET our editor Danny will report...
Tonight saw the first semi-final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. There were arguably no great surprises among the qualifiers, with Hungary and Albania representing perhaps the closest thing to a bookmakers' nightmare. Meanwhile, the EBU...
Yesterday saw the first 2 dress rehearsals of semi final one, and esc-chat.com were in the Press Centre blogging live for you! If you missed that, you can still catch the article here. Overall, despite a few technical hitches the rehearsal went well, and the stage...
Tonight, the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be held! 18 entries will compete for the privilege of ending up in one of the 10 envelopes for the final. As we learned yesterday, 9 envelopes will be digital (as they have been in recent years),...
Tonight, the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be aired! 18 participants will be competing for 10 available tickets for the final on Saturday. But on their way to this semi-final, many countries had to leave some of the fan favourites of the...
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the first semi-final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest! The show begins at 15:00 CET, also join the chat for our Live-Chat, where we can comment directly from the press centre. 18:08 We're LIVE...
We're now LIVE in the Press Centre waiting for the first dress rehearsal to start, but before we do, we'd better tell you about yesterday's goings on here in Baku! We arrived in the Press Centre yesterday in time to see the second dress rehearsals of the Big 5 plus...
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