Televoting or televote is the telephone voting in the Eurovision Song Contest. Televote is the sole voting avenue in the Eurovision. During the mid-nineties, the European Broadcasting Union, organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest, introduced telephonic and SMS voting for competing entries in place of national juries. This way the voice of the television audience became crucial to choose the winning song. Eurovision Song Contest logo. ... The nineties is a decade common to a number of centuries. ... The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), known in French as LUnion Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed February 12, 1950 by 23 broadcasting organizations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in the coastal resort of Torquay in Devon... Eurovision Song Contest logo. ... Depending on context, the initials SMS may have several meanings: Short message service – text messaging on mobile phones / cell phones. ...

Disadvantages of Televoting

Televote strenghtened the neighborly voting, where neighbor countries would vote for each other. This existed before in the competition, but now it practically became a rule. This was evident in the voting patterns of Scandinavian, Baltic, Balkan, and CIS countries; Andorra would vote for Spain, Greece for Cyprus and vice versa. Due to this, there may be a chance that as of 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, this once-praised voting system might be reverted to part jury, part televote. Scandinavian can mean: a resident of, or anything relating to Scandinavia any North Germanic language a chess opening, Scandinavian Defense the aviation corpotation Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Baltic can refer to: The Baltic Sea Council of the Baltic Sea States - an intergovernmental organization Baltic sea countries - countries with access to the Baltic Sea The Baltic region (Balticum) Baltic States - the independent countries of Estonia Latvia Lithuania Baltic Republics - term refers to the three Baltic states under the... ... CIS is an abbreviation of: Commonwealth of Independent States Canadian Interuniversity Sport Contact Image Sensor CompuServe Information Service Chinese International School Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars) Continuous injection system Communication Information Services Card Information Structure Cisalpino See also uses of the word cis. ...

External Links

• Eurovison Song Contest page
• The most visited independent website about the ESC
• European Broadcasting Union