The EBU's highest profile production is the Eurovision Song Contest, organised by its Eurovision Network.

* the Intervision Network, the Eastern European equivalent of the Eurovision Network, shorter version of the name International Radio and Television Organisation

The idea of having Sonia represent the United Kingdom was first breached by the fan club, Eurovision Network which polled its members as to who should sing for Europe.

TRT renewed its membership in the European Broadcasting Union ( having been a founding member previously offering only radio ) starting on August 26, 1972, with Turkey's first Eurovision Network event, a football match ( Turkey vs. Italy ), airing across Europe on January 13, 1973.

In Italy since Pope John XXIII, every Sunday at noon the pope has an address broadcast by public television ( Rai Uno ) and Eurovision Network.

Siegel is one of the most notable figures at the Eurovision Song Contest, in which he has participated with 20 songs so far, the latest being the 2012 Sammarinese entry " The Social Network Song " by Valentina Monetta.

The Eurovision Network ( founded 1954 in Geneva ) is part of the European Broadcasting Union, itself founded in 1950 as a system of international broadcasting cooperation.

* The Birth of Eurovision Network ( in French )

He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted " Hej, Clown " for the 1969 Melodifestivalen-the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals.

Eurovision Song Contest winner of 2010, Lena ( Lena Meyer-Landrut ), is also from Hanover.

Willy van Hemert was also the lyricist of " Net als toen ", which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1957.

It is also the venue for the 32nd Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix in 1987.

He provided voice-overs and narration during the intro of 1st semifinal of Eurovision Song Contest 2009, and the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and was also one of the Olympic flag bearers.

The city is also famous for its Sopot International Song Festival, the largest such event in Europe after the Eurovision Song Contest.

International events such as the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, both held in Athens, greatly helped to boost tourism in the country, while large-scale nationally-funded cultural infrastructure such as the New Acropolis Museum also contributed to the flow of tourists in the country.

This song was also submitted by the band as a potential Eurovision Song Contest contestant that year, but TVE selected another band, Cadillac.

She also briefly re-joined Bananarama in 1998 to record " Waterloo " for the Channel 4 Eurovision special A Song for Eurotrash.

Today, also the Sami culture is celebrated with many yoik concerts, Sami theater shows, reindeer races, snowmobile races, ice fishing competitions, parties, and the Sámi Melody Grand Prix ; a Sámi version of the Eurovision Song Contest where in addition to the best song, the best yoik is also selected.

The stage itself, conceived by Paula Farrell under chief production designer Michael Grogan, was also the largest and most elaborate ever constructed for a Eurovision.

The song also appears on the Norwegian record release of the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest entries.

She also released a Eurovision Song Contest entry on Apple (" Knock Knock, Who's There ") and two studio albums.

The song also cemented Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger, the song's composers, into German Eurovision tradition, writing 18 Eurovision songs between them before and after " Ein bißchen Frieden ", 13 of which were for Germany.

Katie Boyle came back to host her fourth Eurovision Song Contest ( she also hosted the contest in 1960, 1963 and 1968 ).

It was also the first Eurovision Song Contest where a DVD of the contest would be released.

Bisbal also performed at Eurovision with Rosa Lopez, David Bustamante, Chenoa, Gisela and Geno, in the chorus.

Her performance also included the removal of some of her clothing — seen jocularly as a staple of Eurovision performances — and was well received in the first contest in which most countries allocated their points after a public telephone vote.

Finalists Rosie Ribbons and Zoe Birkett have both scored chart hits, Birkett also moving on to a career in musical theatre whilst Jessica Garlick represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002.

EBU is the European organisation of public broadcasters that also organises the Eurovision Song Contest.

The band has participated in a Slovenian contest EMA 2007 for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with a song Kdo hoče plesati z menoj ( Who Wants To Dance With Me ).

* Eurovision Dance Contest, an annual dance competition organised by Eurovision

The 2007 edition of the contest did not take place as the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) has introduced a new teleshow the " Eurovision Dance Contest ".

It was originally planned that this show will return in 2009 and will take place on Friday, 19 June 2009, in Dance House, Oslo, Norway, however, as Director of Eurovision TV, Mr. Bjørn Erichsen informed on EBU press-conference in May 2009 " it has been cancelled again due to the low number of countries subscribed ".

After winning the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix competition in 1963, they went on to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest where they won with the song " Dansevise " ( Dance Ballad ), music by Otto Francker and lyrics by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen.

Manuel participated in the 3rd Season of the Ukrainian Dancing With the Stars ( so-called International League of Champions ) where he danced with the Ukrainian ballroom dancer, Eurovision Dance Contest's silver medallist Yulia Okropiridze.

* Eurovision Dance Contest

* Eurovision Dance Contest, an international dancing competition

Despite this result, ' Just a Little Bit ' is one of the most successful of the UK's entries at Eurovision, not only topping the UK singles chart but also finding success in America, where the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 1998.

She co-hosted coverage of the inaugural Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 alongside Graham Norton for BBC One in September of that year.

Brendan represented the United Kingdom at the first Eurovision Dance Contest in September 2007.

The SECC held the second Eurovision Dance Contest in September 2008.

In Oslo, Gina could only manage 8th place, but was perhaps consoled by her Europe-wide hit with the song, which also became one of the few Eurovision songs ( and one of the relatively few dance songs ) to be a major hit in the United States where it peaked at # 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording.

Lytton also represented the UK at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 in Glasgow and finished in 9th place out of 14 with 47 points.

High-profile Eurovision events are the annual Eurovision Song Contest ( organised since 1956 ) and Eurovision Dance Contest ( organised in 2007 and 2008 ), the Eastertime papal blessing ' Urbi et Orbi ', the Vienna New Year's Concert, the Palio in Siena and major European sports events, but routine transmissions of sport and culture amount to over 15, 000 transmission hours per year.

He also commentated for Ukraine at the 2007 & 2008 Dance Contest and is currently the Junior Eurovision Song Contest commentator for Ukraine.

After MTV's original choice was revealed to have been released before 1 October 2008, breaking contest rules, it was decided that Zoltán Ádok would be Hungary's next Eurovision entrant, performing " Dance with Me ", after MTV's second choice to represent Hungary declined.

Noted Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg composed several pieces of music for the halling dance in his Lyric Pieces The dance was used in the Norwegian winning contribution to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest performed by the Frikar Dance Company together with singer and fiddle player Alexander Rybak.