Canada: Douze Points!
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Mark Jeffries
Jul 3, 2026, 2:30:53 AM (3 days ago) Jul 3
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As the European Broadcasting Union has made the CBC a full member, that means that our friends in the Great White North will get to have an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest next year--there have been instances of Canadians performing at Eurovision, most notably Celine Dion performing for Switzerland in 1988, before she became the global star she is today, but the associate membership the CBC had precluded participating in the contest:
Although the three major commercial networks are associate members of the EBU, full membership is only for public broadcasting organizations like the CBC, meaning that the NBC bomb of a few years ago "The American Song Contest" could not have the winner move on to Eurovision. NPR and two other public radio services are associate members for news and event purposes, but they would not have much interest in Eurovision, being that even when a Sabrina Carpenter does an NPR "Tiny Desk Concert," the music formats public radio does are not Eurovision-friendly.
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