How TV stations insert Commercial Breaks at Eurovision
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The final of the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live on across Europe and the world on May 13th 2023. Some station broadcast advertising breaks, while others don't. Here's a look at how a few stations in Europe handled the two of the opt-outs.
This is SO fascinating. Being a Brit, I’ve always just had the BBC. I’d be fuming watching all these ads. Plus Rai who missed half of serbias votes!
Did BBC put in some own short clips during the semis this year as they always do the other years when the semis show interval acts?
@@NB-oc8hs They just continue the show and others seem to have chunks of it cut out, in favour of ads
@@NB-oc8hs No, not this year.
In italy we have lost Island vote, Fortunately I had switched to youtube live during the commercial breaks
@@Craigy2818 it looks like the bbc just has fuller
Everyone:Showing Eurovision
RSI LA 1:So on Wensday we will have 20 degrees Celsius...
An overtimed news bulletin😂
I refuse to believe that Rai's commercials during the jury votes weren't a mistake.
Thankfully I was still watching the youtube stream at the time because I switch to that at every commercial break, but a lot of people missed Hatari giving Iceland's points, a highlight of the voting sequence if you ask me, lol
We had a hard time finding a stream, was there a free youtube stream? 😅
Not a mistake we have commercials also douring the songs :) The income of RAI is 50% from our taxes and 50% from commercials :)
@@orbita1 yes there is! On the official Eurovision RUclips channel
@@orbita1you might be in a country it’s blocked
@@RickyPro888 Sal in your Profile picture lol 😂😂😂
All this time I assumed Moroccanoil was a state petroleum company.
Haha 😂
Same :D
And I assumed it was actually from Morocco. I assumed wrong.
i was fuming angry when I saw it was sponsored by a oil country, and «morocco» just definetly ment corruption. and then I googled it 😅
Wait it apparently is a cosmetics company?
As a viewer in Australia who can't stand the ads and the "commentary", I find that the best way to watch is to use a VPN and watch on the official RUclips stream. No ads, no interruptions!
wait, the RUclips stream is blocked in Australia?
@@ja1207 it was
@@ja1207the stream was probably blocked in favour of Australian viewers watching through SBS - the broadcaster
@@ja1207 if I'm not mistaken, most Broadcasting countries are banned from watching the world feed
@@joaovitormatos8147 not all. The BBC have blocked the World Feed since 2020's Shine a Light (which they weren't going to air & only did so after a massive fan backlash.) I think Greece & Australia also block it.
I assume the argument in the UK is to disallow non-license fee payers a way of accessing the programme (you're not supposed to use BBC iPlayer without a license) however hardcore fans do like the commentary-free option.
In the UK, the World Feed is opened up shortly after the broadcast (a week in 2023's case) however JESC 2022 has never been unblocked.
RAI where are your manners
As an italian, they don't have manners
Probably RAI must follow BBC. No ads because publicly funded
@@tbgrandprixengineering unfortunately, Italians DON'T WANT pay the fee (il Canone in italian)
However, there was a technical difficult that night
TVM is publicly funded so I don't know what the issue is.
I'm happy that the Swedish broadcaster SVT don't have ads and I know it's an ad break because the commentator says it everytime.
@@severk5774 They definitely do. In Italy I switch to the RUclips stream every time there's an ad break, and thank god I did or else I would've missed Iceland's jury votes lol.
To be fair though, this year one ad that always played during Eurovision was surprisingly Eurovision themed. It's a Costa Crociera cruise ad that presents their ships as if they were singing contestants from other countries where I guess their cruises go.
For example one showed their cruise in a Norwegian fjord, and the voiceover said "and here directly from Norway, Costa Firenze will be performing! **cheering noises**" And then it played noises of the sea and said "our music is the sea 😌🤡". At least that destroyed the mood a bit less lol.
I was at least glad to see it because it meant that in Italy Eurovision week is finally valued enough for there to be a custom ad campaign lol
I am now a strong(er) supporter of state/tax subsidized broadcasting after seeing this and the Eurovision intro video by the same channel.
- Fellow Swede
@@ehmzed Weird even main sponsor of the show don't tried to make something eurovision theme to fit the mood.
Thank god France Télévisions is not allowed by law to have any ad-breaks after 8
Same for ARD's flagship station, Das Erste (even with the limited daytime commercial breaks on most days of the week).
Also ZDF, and TVP have no-interrupting programs like BBC
Even then, France TV could decide to insert promos, trailers, governmental PSAs, NGO messages, etc. during the opt-outs, but I'm thankful they choose to air the whole contest uninterrupted instead. That's one of the seldom few things they do right when they air the ESC. Now if they could tell their commentators to stop chatting over the first seconds of the songs and to translate what the presenters say instead of joking…
Never heard of that rule before.
That’ll explain why France 2 doesn’t go to a commercial break when they show Fort Boyard then.
The BBC isn't allowed ads at any time of the day.
Here's my possible explanation for Rai's delay during Iceland's jury moment: Rai usually doesn't show the mid-jury top 3 green room interviews, unless the Italian act is expected in advance to be in that top 3. Moreover, advertisment sequences and schedules for events with a large audience have to be prepared well in advance, since demand for ad slots is high and the prices are higher, and if Rai doesn't do them exactly as planned it'll get sued: this is even at the expense of not showing important parts of an event, for example we used to have "mini-spots" before every corner kick in World Cup soccer matches. This is disgraceful but it's the only viable business plan to not succumb under Mediaset's claws.
So basically Rai didn't expect Mengoni to be so high in the juries and they did schedule the ad breaks accordingly. Turns out he's second behind Loreen, _of course_ they have to show this to viewers, but by doing so they have to delay the ad break and re-tune in at a later time than foreseen.
It's either this, or someone in the Rai headquarters feared that Einar would pull out a Palestinian flag.
The protracted one word reveal was rehearsed, so I doubt it.
They could have just tape delayed the show, which is OK to do once the votes are closed?
My guess is that those laws or rules about advertising on linear broadcast TV channels likely were only written with pre-recorded programming in mind and didn't have exceptions for live programming.
Another Eurovision video, love it! Very interesting to see -Italy mess up as usual- _the inner workings of stuff like this_ .
hahahahah
Lol
I was about to ask ‘Did RSI La 1 really take a 20-minute commercial break?’ but on review it appears they ran a shortened news bulletin as well. I could have sworn there was something in the broadcast contracts that each broadcaster is supposed to take the telecasts in full? 😉
The whole point of the little host chats and skits in between the songs and voting is to allow the commercial broadcasters to show ads. It's been part of the contest since the beginning.
@@linmanfu913 you are allowed to drop the designated bits between two "United By Music" stings, as these will always either be 2min or 8min long.
The BBC also has an agreement with the EBU that they can drop other stuff midweek, usually the second recap on their non-voting semi, although they didn't do this in Liverpool.
They also dropped a film in the final of 2013 which was pretty near the knuckle, inserting a recap of Bonnie Tyler's media apperances that week.
@@jamesmt142 And the broadcasters can drop out if shit hits the fan. Imagine what would happen if the Queen died during Eurovision...
@@lcmortensen I believe that is a common job interview question for the controller of BBC 1. (This might be nonsense, I am some guy on the internet repeating what I have read on the internet)
@@lcmortensenwe will never know of course, but had the Queen shuffled off during Eurovision one imagines Buckingham Palace would have held fire on any statements until after the show. Same for any other major cultural event.
The reason I say this is because pretty much every EBU member station would have needed to interrupt the programme. We saw at the time that it was major headline news virtually everywhere and most broadcasters in Europe ripped the schedules up at least for the first few hours as the news broke.
Indeed, I flew to Spain the morning after it happened and La1 were still in rolling news mode by the time I got to where I was staying.
Poor Italian speaking Swiss, they watched news and ads while everyone was watching "The Liverpool Songbook"
The Swiss missed out on Duncan Lawrence’s memorable performance.
@@OwainCynanRoberts they got that - they crashed into Sonia so they would have got Duncan but the context would have been missed.
@@OwainCynanRoberts is that also applicable to SRF (German) and RTS (French)?
@@jaricbarrantes2858no, RTS rejoined halfway through the 8 minute window provided by the BBC.
SRF rejoined on time; but Alesha slightly overshoots the cue.
Ill be honest RAI's bad timing isnt surprising given how much of a mess they made as host broadcaster last year.
I'm Italian and I didn't find any trouble last year. could you give me some examples? I'm curious...thx
@Maikol Zerbato I guess they're referring to the technical issues is hosting the contest, mostly on the staging and technical side? Some of the screens and stuff weren't working properly
@@maikolzerbato1879 Most things didnt work on the stage, and cameras were stuck. Also wrong camera angels all the time.
@@maikolzerbato1879 haha italy was 1,5 hour OVER time and you didnt have a stage. It was not finished. Italians are selfish people who still love facism more then Europe
there was no big problem last year and the show was fine. It seems to me like at this point yall simply follow stereotypes and no matter hiw Italy had organised the show you would have criticised it anyway
Our country's broadcaster, TVP, due to no-ad-break-within-programme law, aired the Eurovision, like BBC did (with scene remembering the win of Ukraine in 2022). I remember, when they tried to make an exception in 2020 during "Europe Shine a Light", when they regularly aired a LIDL ad during short ad breaks (unlike possibly some of others, which broadcasted a promo of it's programmes (an interior, channel's programming, ad), but I don't know, which ones).
And thanks to that law we had a beautiful drag queen performance in our state TV this year. That was wholesome.
TVP sometimes bypasses the "no commercials within one show" law by artificially splitting shows into "parts". They routinely do that with their own festivals. So they air "part 1" with end credits and all, a commercial break (which are allowed _between_ shows), and then "part 2" with a new opening sequence and all. Even if it's a live broadcast from literally the same event.
I wonder if there's something regulatory stopping them from doing that with Eurovision, or did they just not "want" to for whatever reason.
SVT would just show the same feed as BBC
And Scandinavian TV
@@julianhanc8272 Sure.
It baffles me that there are ad breaks during eurovison on some public funded stations. A friend who watched in Austria actually missed an a whole interval act and the end of the voting period despite they were partaking in the vote for that semi! What the heck is that?
Because those networks are only partially funded by taxes and Eurovision's huge audiences are a prime opportunity for them to get revenue.
ORF even took their breaks in 2015! Gladly I was at the jury final but the broadcast had me fuming!
This is actually the first year TVE added commercials
What really annoys me with ORF is that we pay tons in TV licensing fees (15-20€/month) and they still have adverts during Eurovision and between their other programs. Honestly they make money from the fees and from the adverts and they still struggle for money.
@@lukasoitzl133 i am suprised they still run ads after 8pm. i can live with 1-2 minutes of ads during daytime.
how are broadcasters allowed to air adverts during *actual* results? borderline criminal
Theyre not. Italian braodcasters just dont care
Well someone before in the comments made this hypothesis : in general they don’t show the interview of the 2 first singers after the jury result, they put the ads.
With Marco Mengoni being 2nd in jury vite, ofc they had to show that to the viewers. So they delayed the ads, they couldn’t cancelled them tho (contract).
Seems logical
I watched Eurovision in the Netherlands (NOS/AVROTROS/NPO1) this year and the ads were shown only before and after the show itself. The Dutch law says that the public TV stations are allowed to have ad breaks only in between programs.
I was born and grew up in Kazakhstan, and our local station Khabar TV (an associate member of EBU that's been trying to get into Eurovision every since since 2008) used to broadcast it until 2021, and it also didn't show any commercials except for Eurovision's main sponsors. Then again it was 1 am when Eurovision starts airing in Kazakhstan's time-zone
I didn't even know that stations in other countrys had ads during ESC. It's a new one to me!
I'm still surprised that Italy managed to actually organize an Eurovision and not screw everything up
Of course, some mistakes were made like in most of ESC something unexpected can happen, but at least the stage didn't fell on anyone and the schedule was followed quite smoothly
Oh but Italy did screw things up a big time. Google their stage fiasco, lol. I mean, we had a whole contest broadcasted with a huge piece of broken prop in the middle of the stage, destroying a couple of performances.
@@samomuransky4455 It's not broken. It's just too slow to turn and will drag the show another hour is used.
@@arvinroidoatienza7082 Well, it couldn't do what it was supposed to do. That's pretty much the definition of broken :)
@@samomuransky4455 It actually can. Just look at the interval acts. It's just too slow, you can barely see it move
@@arvinroidoatienza7082 No, it can't. If you bought a car and it could only reach 10 km/h, would you say "it's working"? The sun wasn't fit for the purpose because of the slow motions. It couldn't be used in competing performances (as originally intended) and many of them had to be completely redesigned with only a few hours notice (and some ended up being ruined anyway).
Thankfully the Polish law forces the polish public broadcaster to not insert any ad breaks inside the show and thankfully TVP didn’t get to do it’s common practice to avoid that law (they were splitting one show into ‘parts’ on the schedule so the ad break was technically between two scheduled programmes)
And btw. It’s actually fascinating to look at the BBC one feed with the Eurovision ident without Morroccanoil branding in it
And TVP have the same as BBC
lol France now does the same to artificially increase the ratings (the first part of the show has more viewers than the second one, so if you split them you'll announce that the whole show had the same viewership as the beginning)
I had no idea about the loop hole of splitting the show into parts. That explains why EPGs look odd during long events like Eurovision, the annual NYE festivals or sports events. Madness
It's really bizarre to me that national broadcasters have ads on their channels, in Estonia ERR has a no-ad policy, so for breaks or just in between shows, they show what's coming up next or show a new series they're working on, but no paid ads by any company and usually they don't last more than a minute.
Yle also has a no-ad policy, only "ads" we get on Yle are their own stuff and those don't interrupt the shows
Some have ads, some don't. In Spain, for example, I know that they don't have ads on their public television, but here in Portugal we do.
Exactly the same in the UK.
Most TV channels make money with ads.
My country's broadcaster (RAI) used to have ads confined at a end-of-transmissions ad roll until the early 80s, when they switched on the overnight transmission as well.
After that, the broadcasting market was deregulated in favour of private owners (mainly the Mediaset corporation, owned by that dude Berlusconi) and Rai was basically forced to show as many ads as the Mediaset channels - aka A LOT - to stay afloat with the budget.
All of them: **show Liverpool Song Book**
RSI La 1: 🗿
Nothing to see here, just RAI doing RAI things
Last year's host broadcaster
For us italians is a normal thing
in a negative wave :)
It's not as bad as RSI La 1, who looked like they put a news broadcast during the interval.
😂
Watched the final on Rai 1, now I see why I didn't remember Hatari giving votes! I think is the first time they do ads during voting, ot maybe first time I realize that. However, I like that Italian commentators "visit" our singer behind the scenes!
This reminds me of watching F1 on TSN in Canada. They use the Sky Sports feed and insert commercial breaks at their own whim during the race, split screen with the live action. Max and Lewis' crash at Monza in 2021 was on a tiny picture-in-picture video during an Expedia ad.
Here in the UK, Sky don't place commercial breaks during the main race (including sprint races), they only do so twice on practice sessions and in-between qualifying rounds (including most recently, the sprint shootouts), and this is from a Sky Sports subscriber since 2021.
@@JamieMurphy25 in Finland the broadcaster here (Viaplay) only shows ads before the opening titles, otherwise its entirely ad-free.
@@JamieMurphy25when Sky first had F1 from 2012 - 2020 they never put ad breaks between the 3 Qualifying rounds as you know it was 2021 when they started doing that
I can't believe RSI La 1 missed most of the Liverpool Songbook but came back for Sonia.
Looks like the BBC had all their opts done perfectly ;)
Not a single one lmao, exactly the way I like to enjoy Eurovision! Public funded TV ftw.
Germany as well
Here in Belgium as well, I'd be so disappointed to miss such nice in-between fragments...
In France TV, the same, no ads.
And Spain and Poland
I find it hilarious that RSI viewers get 20 minutes of drab news and adverts then is hit straight with Sonia lmao
In the American continent, some public television channels advertise, others do not, including Colombia, although RTVC can advertise because a law allows it.
Recently in Colombia, an attempt was made to approve an article in the National Development Plan that sought that all televisions, especially national public, regional public and community ones, broadcast advertising and that the schedule not be exclusively for the two main private channels. but unfortunately they removed that article.
It was quite interesting to see TVM, the Maltese National Broadcaster included in this, it's quite rare Malta gets included in pretty much anything, and I (as a Maltese Person), didn't even realise it was TVM until I saw the horrific ident they have today ( 1:39 )
TVM is notoriously ad heavy though. They used up the entire 8 minute inventory!
As a Brit I always kinda wondered why they had these big chatting bits for basically no reason. So that's why lmao. One good thing about paying a TV license. Zero ads on big events.
@@nyakirawr The ad breaks are literally the reason why they have those random interviews
I watched the Eurovision 2 years in a row on RTS in Switzerland (2016/17) ... safe to say the commercials were so frustrating.
I'm happy that German broadcaster ARD (Das Erste) did not show advertisment, so it was possible to see the full stuff of program with the previous winner songs, history of ESC and all other things. Otherwise, that would have been the moment for a toilet break, to eat a little bit or even switch to the livestream on RUclips for a few minutes. Gladly, it was possible to just watch the full thing without doing that ;D
Man I am glad our broadcaster is ad-free during shows 🍀🍀🤞🏼
So where are you from? And which broadcaster?
@@itjustmeLam Germany. It's Northern German Broadcaster NDR here (which belongs to ARD)
@@fdm636 Glad it so... I got interested about this public broadcaster because of the gong, the Tagesschau and Ersten...xD
@@fdm636 Glad it so... I starting to get interested about this public broadcaster because of the Tagesschau (also the "Gong") and Ersten...:)
3:50 As always, rai is perfect. COF COF
and I pay 90 euro a year in television licensing... Good thing I used to switch to youtube live during the commercial breaks
BBC, SVT, TVE and Das Erste doesn’t have adverts but RTÉ does.
Ahhhh how great it is to have a national broadcaster that is LEGALLY not allowed to show adverts.
RTS seem to be very bad at the cut-off timing though, they cut Graham off right as he was introducing the next segment. Italy also only just managed to catch the first of the jury votes too. People don't sit down just to watch ads, so when they begin to interfere with the program people are ACTUALLY watching then you're doing something wrong...
Finnish Yle that shows this is a non commercial channel and I was just assuming all the channels all over Europe broadcasting ESC would be the same.
Oh, lucky that YLE is not allowed to produce the competition next year
Yeah, I assumed the same.
@@KuldarJ I thought one of the things of public broadcasting networks would be no commercials, but it's not so in all countries.
You should include ERT (Greece). The way it just cut the feed was so funny...
Just a black screen?
@@PhilipWester They cut it the time the presenter started talking
No ads in Russia neither, because.. well, you say it.
Quite interesting how ORF used their first opt-out to show some short news bulletin too
I always thought it is impossible to mess up this thing this bad. I am used to our almost perfect live broadcasting.
I am fortunate to have watched from Kosovo on the RTK without ad breaks. It feels very strange to watch the broadcasters succeed and/or fail at this opt-in/opt-out. Our commentators use the space to talk over the interview.
Those who run commercials during the competition, just do Picture-in-Picture. 🤦🏻♂️
Wait, some of you have ads on Eurovision?
With how well esc is doing in italy lately I'm actually shocked we didn't have more ads lol
obviously, in the majority of countries eurovision is broadcasted in the public/tax-funded television instead of the private/paid, so we have ads
in spain it doesn't matter, both have ads because the main paid tv company here (movistar) is greedy as hell
@@SoyFaii I think you're confusing terms here. They mean "Public" as in publicly funded, which RTVE is. In a lot of countries, publicly funded channels are not allowed to show ads, that's the case of the BBC, to give one example. They pay the "license fee", which helps fund the BBC, and in turn the BBC can't show ads in any way. Then there's "Commercial" television, which would be like Antena 3, ITV and the like. Some state broadcasters like RAI and I think RTVE (I say this because BF was sponsored by Idealista) have mixed income, meaning that they get some money from taxes and the rest from running ads. Then there's subscription based TV, which is Cable/Satellite/IPTV
Spanish RTVE runs no commercial ads since 2010, exceptions are when events feature sponsors like the ESC itself, PSA's, political parties on election campaigns, merchandising from or films funded by RTVE itself, programming promotions or what it's called 'cultural sponsorship'.
RTVE is also the strange exception to the rule, Spaniards don't have to pay a explicit, direct tax (or license) to fund public broadcasting services, part of the income from the yearly Spanish tax declaration serves that purpose.
In Portugal we have.
RTS (Serbia) was thankfully respectful to the performers this year, last year they cut in the middle of Diodato's performance and Gigliola Cinquetti was completely cut out
Gigiola was in the official ad break window. RAI however didn't leave until the end of the performance, it was actually pretty clever - they divided the ad break windows into 2 lots of 4 minutes - so they'd have 4 minutes of performance and 4 minutes of filler. This allowed RAI to still air the performances in Italy but still get adverts in.
I'm from Poland, where there are no commercial breaks during the eurovision song contest, but a year ago on the day of the second semi-final, we took a trip to portugal and while watching the contest's final I noticed that even on Portuguese television (it was RTP1) there were commercial breaks, especially during interviews with the representatives. I wonder what it would all look like if we watched the contest during a trip to Austria or the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and in the case of Austria I would see information with a crossed eye regarding teletext before the contest resumed after the commercials and in the case of the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland during interviews and interval acts I would see the news and the weather forecast would interest me the most (because we need to know when traveling what the weather will be like during next trip).
the ORF is horrible especially considering its the state channel you already have to pay for anyway
I've just realized that the middle section is the Swiss "ones" (separate tv channels for the German, French and Italian-speaking regions)
I'm really enjoying your Eurovision content.
It's all very interesting.
No ads in Czechia either. The Czech TV station that airs ESC only has ads between shows but never during.
Are you saying about CT2?
Yee
In Greece, ERT not only does put ads (despite being a publicly funded media), they have requested the EBU to block the youtube stream in Greece so that we're forced to watch through ERT + the ads. Unless of course we pay for a VPN
In Ukraine, on Suspilne Kultura, like BBC One also wasn't been any commercial.
@Inactiv Yes, because Suspilne Kultura also partially changed Pershyi (pre-telethon era) with the defunct TRK Ukraina's TV series
@@tvrhd2023Why wouldn't it be? It's European culture at its finest. 😝
Oh, really? Isn't the final broadcast by the first channel?
@@alexvaznogueira2817 yes, because Channel One (Pershyi) is broadcasting news-joint telethon, as like as commercial flagship TV channels, due the Russian invasion against Ukraine
Also TVP hasn't any commercial like BBC
Thanks for doing this - a fascinating watch! Incredible just how messy some of the opts in-and-out were, although it does look like Alesha missed her cue on the mid-voting one. Very bizarre of RAI to take the ad break *after* the designated window. Having literally produced the contest a year ago you'd expect them to know where the gaps are! I love the fact they branded it "EDIZIONE ITALIANA" almost as if to proudly package it as a bastardised version!
I hate the way the BBC use these windows to do wierd comedy skits etc. during the semi-finals (something they, mercifully, didn't do on their own production) - but at least they're clean-ish about getting into and out of them rather than this hot mess.
Interesting that RSI1 preempted the entire filler show with a whole newscast, quite the interesting idea. Here in Chile El 13 also pre-empted the songbook with ads.
Meanwhile in Serbia the Semi-Final 1 and 2 was broadcasted on RTS 3 instead of RTS 1 because of the tragedies that happened on 3rd and 4th of May. The thing is, RTS 3 never broadcasted ads. So obviously I was very happy about that. But, for some reason during the Semi-Final 2, during the time when ads were supposed to be broadcasted... they put on promos for the 3rd channel instead of ads. I don't even know what was the point of that when nobody watches that channel. RTS did not do that on Semi-Final 1. 😭
nice video! do you synchronize all the streams during post processing ?
Well this finally answers the question who the heck is Moroccan Oil and what do they sell.
😂😊😂
I saw that Romania's TVR had ad breaks during Eurovision while Germany's ARD didn't had ad breaks. In Germany it's much better to see Eurovision than in Romania. Romania had also no ad breaks before but after the TV licence was scrapped, they started to interrupt Eurovision with ad breaks. But at least, TVR's ad breaks were better organized than those at RaiUno. RaiUno had the worst Eurovision transmission this year.
ARD especially "Das Erste" (ARD is just the group of many local stations and their nationwide mainstation is "Das Erste") would really like to show ads in the primetime (after 8pm. But thats forbidden) They are only allowed to show ads betweeten 6 and 8 pm. And no ads (and no sponsors) after 8pm.
The other interesting thing is that SVT changed the ad break structure in 2024. There's still 14 minutes of "avails" as they're known but SVT scheduled more, but shorter, breaks.
So...do you hate it? Personally for me, I didn't like ad breaks, I rather watch like 4-5 minutes of commercials during shows (as my country's national broadcaster had, or may be I was dumb) rather than having more ad breaks!
@Tevebits it’s strange you never displayed videos about the French channels. I know they are greedy and block all content on RUclips.
But you could do a video about the ad breaks of France 3 during holidays (winter summer) with the famous animals « Marmotte ». They have been there for 5 years and were hella cute. (Especially when mimicking the movies or sports).
They just have been replaced by chicken (poules) recently, it is not as charming as the previous ad breaks.
France is known for blocking content, sadly. There is a video featuring French broadcasters on my channel ("French TV News Intros 2020"), but it has been blocked within France by TF1. The rest of the world can see it, though ;-)
@@tevebits thank you for the answer. I somehow already knew the answer. :)
They never want to share the best stuff, especially TF1 channel (and especially The voicee). This is why you almost never see France in all kind of best of videos.
Keep the good work @tevebits !
Thank God I'm Pole. There wasn't any commercial breaks there 😌
In France we don't have ads during ESC, I thought it was the case for all the channels
I think you have a law effectively banning them after 8pm, France is really strict with their ads (see: the MangerBouger compulsory alerts over food-related ads)
@@joe_itaexact 😂
MangerBouger : Eat Moove
Depends if it's a public service or a commercial channel. Even though orf1 in austria is ad-free usually
As a Mexican eurofan who watch Eurovision Song Contest very year since 2012 I always thought how the broadcasting it’s in the other parts of Europe, cause here in Mexico we have THREE options to watch it, on cable with the international channels of Rai (Italy) and RTVE (Spain) and on RUclips I prefer RUclips but sometimes I missed the Spanish or Italian commentators. 😢 They’re so nice! They know a lot of the contest and the participants, they get prepare and also they’re voice are BEAUTIFUL. Be thankful with your commentators cause that’s one of the point what I like Eurovision, that’s feels that you’re watching an Olympics or World Cup but FOR EUROPEAN SONGS! I that’s for me a good job to do I’ll Can come a commentator! Amazing video and thank for this and guys I love all your commentaries also the one’s who get complain about your local public broadcaster, the ads and the commentators! And also how dare you Rai for lost the Iceland 🇮🇸 jury results everybody knows that every year they do something different every year I hope next year we can see Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrel presenting the Icelandic jury votes! Hajahahaha 😂😂😂😂
why were there ad breaks during the annoucement of the winner lmao
Thank god my national broadcaster NRK doesn't do ads, this looks horrible.
What I noticed during the opt-in sequences.
Some just fade in, like the Swiss French broadcast division, RTS.
Some did a bumper, ORF made it look seamless, Rai did one, well, poorly.
It's likely the BBC (well, any host broadcaster) sends out the graphics packages to other EBU members for the ones who need them. It's a nice touch really.
As was already said in the last video, German public broadcast TVs don't allow ads to be shown. But that's actually not quite true. During day time they are allowed to, but during the evening programme they are not. The evening programme starts at 20:00 with the most watched television news broadcast, so you can imagine what the most expensive ad slot on a regular day is.
Fascinating. More please! Plus, most of them came back about 10 seconds early the first time 😂
Must be so jarring being thrown back in mid VT or interview
i love how they all were on time for sonia
she is truly a legend 😂
I'm from Germany and I'm very grateful that our TV channel 'Das Erste' is no longer allowed to broadcast adverts after 20;00 (German time), so I can watch the whole ESC ad-free. 🙂
RIP to the people who watch RSI. They missed most of the interval act!
I From Finland and our Public radio and televisio broadcast Yle (Yleisradio) not showing normal adds in our Public televisio channels Yle Tv1 Yle Tv2 and Yle Teema & Fem (only adds are tv shows what aired in these channels and our free streaming service's adds not anything else) and our channel what shown Eurovision every year is a Yle Tv1.
This is a unique experience I'm never seen before! Thanks
Why is everybody complaining about Rai and not the Swiss tv? People, you need to stop with this hate.
They would have been better taking a break after Stop Voting Now - then they could have taken their news break at that point, airing the voting sequence on tape delay.
Seeing this again... I'm wondering which public broadcasters in Europe do you think have the worst advertising structure on their channels?
While I'm not an European (I live in Asia, by the way), I think that Rai have the worst one... Your choice?
What's interesting about 2023 is that the BBC very cleverly designed the graphics so that the opt out and opt in were on solid colour frames, whereas in other years there's a transition effect out of, or into, the break bumper - making it hard to cleanly mask the bit you dont want to show. What stations should have done is rolled their adverts on the solid yellow frame as we come out of Sam Ryder's halftime show, and then had a living or still hold on the Moroccanoil sponsorship sting until the solid yellow frame popped back up on the feed from Liverpool. The result would have been a very clean in and out
Do you have any footage of the Australian broadcast on the SBS?
Unfortunately not, I'm sorry
It felt like some broadcasters weren't even listening to the World Feed gallery, and had to do some guessing (as anyone who has watched American sports in Europe will recognise...)
Could you show the Netherlands toi next time?
I'm thankful that Yle doesn't have any ads
I didn't know networks were allowed to produce their own live content from the arena, as RAI did interviewing Marco during the interval
аааа всегда тоже был интересен этот момент )) так и знал что остальные каналы заваливают эфир рекламой. Просто жесть, один ББС достойный канал, вообще никакой рекламы
Best way to watch Eurovision is through RUclips.
didnt know Moroccanoil was just a cheap cosmetic brand 💀💀💀
wow im so happy that VRT/RTBF does the same as the BBC
Just show the full thing, no ads
Also Scandinavian TV, ARD, ZDF, RTVE
youre telling me a bunch of viewers missed salena making silly little faces at the camera during the interval
Thank god we fund BBC and don't have those adverts!
In sweden svt isnt allowed to have ads so we got the entire show
Thank you, never realised we had such diverse experiences of the same show
I’m not that surprised by the RAI screwing the breaks up, but I’m quite surprised that RSI (a Swiss broadcaster!) screwed up so badly. ÖRF is not innocent either.
Glad I have access to the NPO, VRT, BBC and ARD channels, all of them without ad breaks in between.
Don't forget DR, NRK, SVT, Yle and RTVE, they don't have ads.
ORF: TELETEXT!! TELETEXT! TELETEXT TELETEXT TELETEXT!
This is the reason I watch EUROVISION livestream on youtube, in Portugal we also have too many adds and it pisses me off lol
At Czechia we don't have ads during Eurovision. There's a bunch of ads before and after, but during Eurovision we have no ads so that we can see the whole thing
I never knew some countries had ads during the show haha. 🇳🇱
I knew cause i've seen the swedish commentators going like "right now many countries have ad-breaks"
Italophone TV late to the party *again* 😂
BBC coverage is the GOAT
My grandmother accidentally watched ORF's audio comment for people with visual disabilities and it was surprisingly funny, especially the part with Netta.
You end up missing half of the show - what’s the point? As someone who’s only ever watched it on the BBC I just can’t fathom the alternative
in my opinion they could do the transition better haha
ORF white transition is not very nice …
rsi needed that money so bad
wait, there are broadcasters that show ads mid-eurovision, damnn. Here it's broadcasted on a state-owned network and they legally aren't allowed to show any ads mid-show (for all the programs, not just eurovision)