Eurovision Radio International at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016 - Complete Coverage and more

The Team of Radio International is in Malta in view of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016 to take place on 22& 23 January 2016 when the Maltese public and a jury will be selecting the act that will be representing Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm come May. Competing in the Semi Final on Friday, 22 January 2016,  20 songs are being performed by 19 artists. The Top 14 places will advance to the Final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016 to be held on Saturday, 23 January 2016. You can find the list of the participants here. And lots more covereages such as interviews with the participants below. Good luck to everyone and now enjoy the coverage below:

The Result of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016

Still to come is the Red Carpet Clips, The Photo Album and The Winner's Interview with Ira Losco.

Semi Final Winners' Press Conference and First Reaction Interviews

Right after the show the Semi Final Winners' Press Conference took place where the first and last song was drawn. Members of the Press were invited to ask questions and do first reaction interviews with the Finalists of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016. See some of the reaction videos by clicking here.

Running Order of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest Final

1 - Deborah C - All around the World
2 - Franklin - Little Love
3 - Daniel Testa - Under the sun
4 - Brooke - Golden
5 - Raquel - Flashing Lights
6 - Christabelle - Kingdom
7 - Corazon - Falling Glass
8 - Dominic - Fire Burn
9 - Jessika - The Flame
10 - Jasmine - Alive
11 - Lawrence Gray - You're beautiful
12 - Maxine Pace - Young Love
13 - Ira Losco - Chameleon
14 - Kim - Lighthouse

Additional Eurovision Radio International Show from the Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC)

Radio International produced a special of the show direct from the venue including some interviews with the participating singers and journalists from Eurovision Media. Listen or download the show by clicking here.

Special Edtion of Eurovision Radio International from Malta

On Wednesday, the 20 January 2016 you could hear all the competing songs in the weekly edition of Eurovision Radio International. In case you missed it the show is available via this link - Radio International

Eurovision Radio International on Malta's Radju 2 EUROMIX

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 the Team of Radio International were invited by colleagues from Maltese Radio - TVM's Radju 2 to guest on EUROMIX with Frederick Zammit and Luke Borg. You can hear the recording of the show here.

The Day of the Semi Final in the venue, the Mediterranean Conference Centre

Interview with the Host of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016 - Ben Camille

Three Male Hosts - Fun Clip on the stage

International Media at Work

Interviews with all the particpating artists at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016 - in alphabetical order

Brooke - Golden
(Christian Schneider - Aidan O'Connor - Sara Biglert - Brooke Borg)

Christabelle - Kingdom
(Elton Zarb / Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca)

Corazon - Falling Glass
(Sara Ljunggren - Jonas Gladnikoff - Gorgi)

Danica Muscat - Frontline
(Philip Vella / Emil Calleja Bayliss)

Daniel Testa - Under the sun
(Elton Zarb - Daniel Testa / Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca)

Dario Mifsud Bonnici - I love you
(Henric Pierroff / Sandra Nordstrom)

Deborah C - All around the World
(M Ker - J Gladnikoff - Michael J Down - P Poglajen - Angie Laus)

Domenique Azzopardi - Emty Hearted
(Linda Persson - Ylva Persson - Dimitri Stassos)

Dominic Cini - Fireburn
(Natasha Turner - Jonas Gladnikoff - Will Taylor)

Franklin - Little Love
(Cyprian Cassar / Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca)

Ira Losco - Chameleon / That's why I love you
(Ira Losco / Talkback) / (Ira Losco - Howard Keith - Stefan Moessle - Matthias Strasser)

Jasmine Abela - Alive
(Paul Abela - Michael James Down - Marie Petersson - Filip Lindfors)

Jessika - The Flame
(Philip Vella / Gerard James Borg)

Kim - Light House
(Cyprian Cassar / Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca)

Lawrence Gray - You're beautiful
(Paul Giordimaina / Fleur Balzan)

Maxine Pace - Young Love
(Elton Zarb / Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca)

Raquel Galdes - Flashing Lights
(Elton Zarb / Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca)

Sarah Crystal - Right here with you
(Toby Farrugia - Pamela Bezzina / Sarah Crystal)

Stefan Galea - Light up my life
(Ylva Persson / Linda Persson)

Stefan Galea after Dress Rehearsal of Semi Final

Other Interviews

Destiny - Winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 for Malta

Sebastian Calleja

Jeremy Dalli - Technical Director of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2016

#Malta #MaltaEurovisionSongContest2016 #IraLosco #EurovisionSongContest2016 #Eurovision #pbs

Week 02/2015 - Eurovision Radio International on Wed 14 Jan 2015 - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

The PODCAST of Eurovision Radio International
from 14 January 2015 is available now
 
 click here to listen

Just in case you were not there last week - A Happy New Year from the Team of Radio International which would like to invite you to this week's edition of the show with special coverage, music and fun. Join in this Wednesday 14 January 2015 from 8-11pmCET for the show. Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience, is extremely happy that the show is also aired on the following radio stations:

• Belgium's eurovisOradio.eu:  
  Sundays 1900 - 2200 hours CET and Tuesdays 2000 - 2300 hours CET
• Malta's Galaxy 105 Network:  
  Mondays 1300 - 1600 hours CET  
• TUNEIN at time of broadcast on Wednesdays from 2000 - 2300 hours

  

  Daniel Testa (Malta Eurovision 2014 and 2015)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

• Interview with Daniel Testa (Malta Eurovision 2015, Junior Eurovision 2014 Co-Commentator)
• Interview with Lizi Pop (Junior Eurovision 2014, Georgia)
• Semi Final Top 40 as selected by our listeners, This week: Positions 40 - 31
• Eurovision News, Coverspot, Quiz
• Eurovision Spotlight: Austria's History at the Eurovision Song Contest
• Your music requests
• New Music Releases by Eurovision artists as broadcast time permits

  

  Lizi Pop (Junior Eurovision 2014, Georgia)

Further details visit the Radio International website available here.

Join Radio International on Wednesday, 14 January 2015 from 2000 - 2300 hours CET via the website or on FM. Radio International is available live via the radio player www.radiointernational.tv and on FM 106.8, Digital Cable Channel 781 in parts of the Netherlands, via TUNEIN and via www.livestream.com/radint.

In addition, you can pick up Radio International on Malta's Galaxy 105 every Monday from 1300 - 1600 hours CET and in Belgium on eurovisiOradio.eu every Sunday evening from 1900 - 2200 hours and again on Tuesday evenings from 2000 - 2300 hours CET.

Should you not be able to listen live, the show will appear in the Programme’s Show Archive a few hours after its airing on the radio as well as download the show via Itunes. With this you will never have to miss your favourite Eurovision Radio Show.

Happy Eurovisioning
JP and the Team in the Tower of Eurovision Power. www.radiointernational.tv

#eurovision #joinUs #eurovision2015 #BuildingBridges #EurovisionRadioInternational  #SemiFinalTop40 #EurovisionCovers #EurovisionWinners #MaltaEurovision2015 #DanielTesta #JuniorEurovisionSongContest2014 #LiziPop #Malta #Georgia

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015 - complete coverage

The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015 takes place on Friday 21 November 2014(Semi Final 1)and the Final on Saturday, 22 November 2014. There are 20 songs in Semi Final 1 out of which 14 songs will advance into the Final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015. The winner of which will then be receiving the ticket to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Below we have the interview available for you that we conducted during the rehearsals of the event. The Maltese National Final takes place in the same venue where on Saturday, 15 November 2014 Malta staged the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - The Marsa Ship Yard.

Photos of the events can be viewed here:  Photo Gallery of Rehearsals, Interviews and behind - Enjoy!

Listen to a special Malta edition of Eurovision Radio International:

Hour 1    |  Hour 2     |  Hour 3    |    Play List    

 

The Result of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015:

1.   72 points - Amber - Warrior
2.   47 points - Christabelle - Rush
3.   39 points - Glen Vella - Breakaway
4.   35 points - Chris Grech - Closed Doors
5.   26 points - Franklin - Still Here
6.   24 points - Daniel Testa - Something In the Way
7.   23 points - Ekklesia Sisters - Love and Let Go
8.   18 points - Lawrence Gray - The One That You Love
9.   18 points - Jessika - Fandango
10. 12 points - Trilogy - Chasing a Dream
11. 12 points - Deborah C - It's OK
12. 11 points - Dominic - Once in a While
13. 11 points - L'Ahwa - Beautiful to Me
14. 14 points - Karen DeBattista - 12 Baker Street
 
Congratulations go to Amber with the song "Warrior" for winning the ticket to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria next May.


Interviews with the 20 Finalists of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest:

Amber - Warrior

Amber - Warrior - The Winner of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015
The interview was done at the aftershow party in the Marsa Shipyard.

Christabelle - Rush

Chris Grech - Closed Doors

Corazon - Secretly

Danica Muscat - Close Your Eyes

Daniel Testa - Something In the Way

Deborah C - It's OK

Domenique - Take Me as Iam

Dominic - Once in a While

Ekklesia Sisters - Love and Let Go

Franklin - Still Here

Franklin - Still here (after qualifying for the Final with Composer Alexander Rybak)

Franklin - Still Here (after second rehearsal with composer Alexander Rybak)

Glen Vella (and songwriter Kevin Borg) - Breakaway

Glen Vella with Southville Dancers and Francis, the Acrobat

Iona Dalli - Could Have Been Me

Jessika - Fandango

Karen DeBattista - 12 Baker Street

L'Ahwa - Beautiful to Me

Lawrence Gray - The One That You Love

Lyndsay Pace - Home

Raquel - Stop Haunting Me

Trilogy - Chasing a Dream

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - Complete Coverage and Interviews with the contestants

The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is the national selection of Malta to find the song that will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark in May 2014.

20 contestants and voices compete in the Semi Final in the venue called Malta Fairs and Convention Centre (MFCC). 14 of the songs advance to the Grand Final which takes places on Saturday 08 February 2014. The Winner will get the ticket to Copenhagen to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest following in the footsteps of Gianluca Bezzina who with "Tomorrow" achieved a remarkable 8th place in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.

The Team of Radio International is on location in Ta'Qali interviewing the contestants.

The Winning Moments and the Winner's Interview with FIRELIGHT who now will represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in May in Copenhagen with the song "Coming Home".

Press Conference of the 14 Finalists and JP drawing the first and last song for the Grand Final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Interview with the Eurovision Song Contest Winner 2013 - Emmelie de Forest

NEW!!! Interview with Chiara (Malta 1998, 2005 and 2009) - done in Malta on 08 February 2014

Still to come:
Interview with Georgina who represented Malta back in 1991 together with Paul Giordomaina the song "Could it be".


PHOTOS:    Album 1   |   Album 2
Enjoy lots of nice photos from the sunny island of Malta but also with the performers during the interviews and the performances. This way we try to bring you the Malta Experience as close to you as possible. :)

Below find the links to the interviews the team has done with the contestants before the Semi Final:

Amber - Because I have you

Andreana Debattista - Now and Forever

Chris Grech - Oblivion

Corazon - Ten

Daniel Testa - One last ride

Davinia Pace and Muxu - Brand New Day

De Bee - Pin the middle

Deborah C - Untill we meet again

Deborah C in interview at the Finalists Press Conference

Fabrizio Faniello - Just no place like home

Firelight - Coming Home

Franklin Calleja - Love will take me home

Jessika and Gerard James Borg - Hypnotica

Miriam Christine and Emil Callaja Bayliss & Mark Scicluna - Safe

Pamela - Take me

Romina Mamo - Addictive

Ryan Paul Abela - City Lady

Wayne William - Some kind of wonderful

What an amazing show Malta's PBS and TVM put up showing they are ready for hosting the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

#MaltaEurovisionSongContest2014 #Eurovision #JoinUs
#EurovisionRadioInternational

Week 07/2014 - Eurovision Radio International on Wed 12 Feb 2014 - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

The PODCAST of Eurovision Radio International 
from 12 February 2014 is available now

 

click here to listen

Back from sunny Malta the Team of Radio International would like to invite you to this week's edition of the show with interviews with Eurovision performers, music and fun. Join in this Wednesday 12 February 2014 from 8-11pm CET for the show in 2014 containing:

Malta's Hopefuls for 2014 - Firelight

De Bee - The Runner Up

Daniel Testa and his dancers - The Number 3 in Malta

• Live Interview with Brequette Shane (Spanish Pre-Selection 2014)
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - Interview with Firelight (Malta 2014)
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - Interview with De Bee (2nd placed)
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - Interview with Daniel Testa (3rd placed)
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 -  The Results - click here. 
• Eurovision Spotlight:  National Finals 2014 with Ross Bennett
• Eurovision Cover with David Mann 
• Lots of New Music Releases by Eurovision artists as broadcast time permits  
• further items are Eurovision News with Luke, Famous Clip Quiz, your Eurovision music requests, and loads more.
  

  

  Brequette Shane - Spain Pre-selection 2014

  
  Further details visit the Radio International website available here.

Join Radio International on Wednesday, 12 February 2014 from 2000 - 2300 hours CET, via the website or on FM. Radio International is available live via www.radiointernational.tv and on FM 106.8, Digital Cabel Channel 781 in parts of the Netherlands and via www.livestream.com/radint. Should you not be able to listen live, the show will appear in the Programme’s Show Archive a few hours after it’s airing on the radio.

Happy Eurovisioning
JP and the Team in the Tower of Eurovision Power.
www.radiointernational.tv

#eurovision #joinUs #eurovision2014 #MaltaEurovisionSongContest #RadioInternational #NationalFinals

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - Radio International Voting Results

As every year Radio International supports the Malta Eurovision Song Contest in which the Maltese Population and an International Jury select the most suitable song to represent the Maltese Islands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen come May. Like in 2013, pbs uses the same format where this year the national selection consists of a Semi Final with 20 songs that is narrowed down to 14 Finalists out of which the Maltese representative to the Eurovision Song Contest will be selected. Gianluca Bezzina won the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "Tomorrow" which also made it sucessfully to the Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmoe, Sweden last May. Who will succeed the Doctor Gianluca?:) The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 will be televised on Friday, 07 February 2014 (Semi Final) and Saturday, 08 February 2014 (Final) and will be available to watch online as well. escflashmalta.com will keep you up-to-date with the developments.

The Voting Window closed on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 1200 hours CET and below is the result of the voting as made public on Radio International on 29 January 2014.  Now let's wait and see how close our voting gets with the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 when they announce the results on 08 February 2014.

POS	ARTIST	TITLE
1	Daniel Testa	One last ride
2	Jessika	Hypnotica
3	Pamela	Take me
4	Fabrizio Faniello	Just no place like home
5	Firelight	Coming home
6	Miriam Christine	Safe
7	Davina	Brand New Day
8	Franklin Calleja	Love will take me home
9	Ryan Paul Abela	City Lady
10	Amber	Because I have you
11	Romina Mamo	Addictive
12	De Bee	Pin The Middle
13	Christabelle	Lovetricity
14	Deborah C	Until we meet again
15	Wayne Williams	Some kind of wonderful
16	Chris Grech	Oblivion
17	Corazon	Ten
18	Sophie deBattista	Let the sunshine in
19	Andreana Debattista	Now and Forever
20	Raquel	Invisible

 #Eurovision 2014, #Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014