Episode 275
Good to Go
July 29th, 2025
23 mins 56 secs
Season 8
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About this Episode
Quite a bit has happened since we last checked in on Eurovision news. Executive Supervisor Martin Österdahl will be stepping down, there's a new head of the Reference Group, and we know which cities have made bids to host next year's competition.
Good to Go Summary
- Eurovision Host City: Innsbruck vs Vienna (1:00)
- Martin Österdahl Steps Down (4:48)
- Have you joined the Eurowhat AV Club? (10:43)
- 17 Participants so far for Eurovision 2026 (11:59)
- Eurovision YouTube: Non, Stop Hits (and Geoblock?) (21:17)
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Eurovision Podcast Podcrawl
What is the Eurovision Podcrawl? It's where the Eurovision podcast community picks a topic ("a year when a country first hosted Eurovision") and we all publish our episodes in our own styles. At the end of an episode, we'll point to the podcast with the next episode, and so on, through the summer! Here's the crawl:
- ESC Insight: France 1959
- Wind Machine Podcast: Austria 1967
- The EuroWhat? Podcast: Yugoslavia 1990
- Niall Points: Latvia 2003
- 12 Points from America: Belgium 1987 (week of August 11)
- That Eurovision Site: Denmark 1964 (week of August 25)
- Douze Points: Azerbaijan 2012 (week of September 8)
Episode Links
- ESC 2026 - Innsbruck vs Vienna: our analysis of the bids | ESC Xtra
- “Together on Top”: Innsbruck applies for Eurovision Song Contest 2026 - VIENNA.AT
- Bid for the ESC: Vienna wants to become the host city | Wien Uncovered
- Martin Österdahl to step down as Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest this summer | Eurovision.tv
- Bill proposal to privatize Kan passed ministerial committee | The Jerusalem Post
- The chairman of the board says the moment of truth has arrived for Eurovision | Vísir