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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uktoEurope@feddit.orgIsrael remains in Eurovision
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    19 hours ago

    The point of ESC is to get around 9 hours of content for much cheaper than broadcasters can normally do.

    So for example, at the highest end of participation in the big 5, the BBC pays a fee of £300,000, and about the same again for production costs such as delegation hotels. That’s about the price of 2 hours’ worth of EastEnders. Per hour, its the cost of a mid-range game show.

    In total, the fees reach around £5 million. The host nation’s broadcaster is then on the hook for the rest of the cost, which is usually an additional £8-18m. Effectively, unless everyone quits and there’s no-one to compete, ORF will be expected to cover any shortfall caused by the boycott.