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Good Luck UK!! Hope you get many votes from Norway tonight. You get my 20 also. London 2012. Sure we then, get a more fair competition. :)

Technical problems in semifinal one. In their press conference today, the European Broadcasting Union will address some technical problems that occurred during last night’s first semifinal of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The main issue seems to be surrounding the commentary lines in several countries. Viewers in Finland reported that their commentators resorted to using their own mobile phones for part of the show, as did the commentator in Poland. Spanish viewers also reported losing sound during most of Norway’ performance. The new Executive Supervisor of the contest Jon Ola Sand told NRK.no that “it is true that Spain was hit by technical problems during the broadcast that made the sound drop out, including during Norway performing. We do not know if it was the whole of Spain, or just parts, it is too early to tell”. However, he also added that even if Spain had given it’s 12 points to Norway, Stella Mwangi would still not have qualified. Viewers in the United Kingdom lost contact with on-location commentator Sarah Cox for part of the show, however commentary was able to continue with Scott Mills who was based in a studio in London. Viewers on BBC Three and BBC HD also reported a louder than normal vocal mix on the Polish entry, where the backing track was very low. Ireland boadcast without commentary until song four, but did not seem to be receiving a clean feed until Azerbaijan. In Serbia, contact was lost with Duška Vučinić-Lučić and a message was displayed on screen stating that it was a problem not only affecting the RTS feed. Around 20 minutes later the Serbian broadcaster resumed commentary from Belgrade with a locally-based commentator. The Netherlands lost commentary for three songs or so, but were able to go back to a normal broadcast from then on. Reports also suggest problems in Iceland, Malta, and Sweden, whilst host-country Germany also suffered problems on their Pro7 broadcast, meaning that the commentators had to be linked up by telephone. The EBU is expected to address these issues at their press conference later today. Last night, Jon Ola Sand told NRK.no that “We still do not know if there are several countries that were hit by technical problems“, and that it was too early to say if audio problems may have impacted the voting. Note: the above reports of technical problems are being reported on information from our readers, YouTube links, and national broadcasters. ESCDaily.com is not intending to blow this out of all proportion, merely to acknowledge problems reported to us in certain countries. TRT commentary: From EscDaily.

OGAE: Ireland •Hungary 12 •United Kingdom 10 •Norway 8 •France 7 •Estonia 6 •Azerbaijan 5 •Germany 4 •Denmark 3 •Sweden 2 •Russia 1 From EscToday.

Thank you Cal for posting the new version. I tried but I needed at least 20 posts to post a link. :)

There is a new version of Haba Haba on YouTube. Unfortunately, I can not post the link because I have not 20 posts yet. :( You can find it on YouTube on page 2 if you are searching for: Stella Mwangi - Haba Haba (New version) :)

On YT Stella Mwangi has 937 970 views. :)

Good Luck UK. Sure you will get lot of votes from Norway. Blue have lot of fans over here.. :wub: :)

I guess you are right! :lol:

Amazing. Switzerland Norway..... Like it myself :) Bulgaria Poland Hungary Great. Albania Austria Estonia Georgia Spain Armenia OK Denmark Slovenia Finland Slovenia Romania The Netherlands Russia Israel The rest are bad-ish or nil points. ----

I agree, Hungary has a great song. :wub: