Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster submits an original song representing its country to be performed and broadcast live to all of them via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, and then casts votes for the other countries’ songs to determine a winner. The contest was inspired and based on the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, held in the Italian Riveria since 1951. It has been held annually since 1956 except for 2020 for COVID, making it the longest running international music competition on television and one of the world’s longest running television programmes.