[HN Gopher] Eurovision Diaries
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       Eurovision Diaries
        
       Author : bschne
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-05-10 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (m-m-pr.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (m-m-pr.com)
        
       | zabzonk wrote:
       | Ah, Eurovision! Happy memories of Katie Boyle (beautiful,
       | impressive range of languages) and Terry Wogan (funny, Irish wit
       | and sarcasm). And don't forget it gave us Abba!
       | 
       | Can't get anywhere with this link tho.
        
       | terom wrote:
       | AFAIK Ola Melzig (the m-m-pr.com guy) is off working on the US
       | version of the song contest [0], and there isn't any tech diary
       | for this year - which is sad :(
       | 
       | There's a similar tech blog for last year [1], but it's sorely
       | missing Ola's own funky style.
       | 
       | These have always been great reading for someone more used to
       | being a tech than a guest at parties.
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       | [0] https://m-m-pr.com/may-15-press-release/
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       | [1] https://www.ampco-flashlight.com/nl/esc/
        
       | tpmx wrote:
       | Seems to be down-ish now (limited number of requests per second).
       | 
       | I've read these before. Really interesting diaries from the
       | roaming team of mostly Swedes who have managed a surprisingly
       | large portion of the technical production of the Eurovision Song
       | Contest Finals TV broadcasts of the past ~decade as they happened
       | in various countries.
       | 
       | There are a lot of pages to go through. Given the IA's seemingly
       | eternal performance issues I recommend bookmarking this and going
       | back to it a later point.
        
       | 323 wrote:
       | The behind the scenes for Eurovision are quite interesting.
       | Supposedly it's the second biggest event production in the world
       | after the Olympics.
       | 
       | There is no single point of failure, there are two separate
       | master control rooms, two separate sound mixing rooms, two
       | separate electricity feeds, tens of thousands of kilometers of
       | cables, all the microphones are dual connected on both analogue
       | and digital wireless, ...
       | 
       | The cameras are pre-scripted and auto-switched, a bit like on
       | auto pilot, but the operator can override them if needed:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZDn1BwVuQ
        
       | kingcharles wrote:
       | It got hugged to death:
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       | https://web.archive.org/web/20220510192834/https://m-m-pr.co...
        
       | kingcharles wrote:
       | The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the greatest things about
       | being European.
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | And Australian.
        
         | bluWolf wrote:
         | This deserves a LOL
        
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