Displaying items 1-10 of 37 in total of The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews with the tag "bulgaria".
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Episode 305: American Song Contest Revisited Part 2
July 21st, 2026 | Season 9 | 1 hr 27 mins
albania, austria, bulgaria, canada, italy, latvia, sweden, ukraine
The instantly-doomed American Song Contest really did seem like a good idea at the time: 56 states and territories competing for the hearts and minds of the public on NBC. The execution was not great, but we were pot-committed back in 2022 when we covered this pale imitation of Eurovision. What lessons can be learned before Asia tries its hand at the ESC formula?
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Episode 304: American Song Contest Revisited Part 1
July 7th, 2026 | Season 9 | 1 hr 35 mins
albania, austria, bulgaria, sweden
The instantly-doomed Great American State Fair was supposed to bring together all 56 US states and territories. What if there was a song contest that did that? NBC tried it in 2022 and we watched it all.
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Episode 301: BOOM Bangaranga
May 19th, 2026 | Season 9 | 1 hr 1 min
australia, austria, belgium, bulgaria, denmark, france, germany, israel, lithuania, united kingdom
Better late than never: let’s talk about Eurovision 2026. We’ll discuss what happened in Vienna, what this means for the Contest going forward, and share our post-confetti plans. Also: BULGARIA?!
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Episode 289: Rough
January 27th, 2026 | Season 9 | 35 mins 20 secs
austria, bulgaria, georgia, israel, luxembourg, malta, moldova, switzerland
Bulgaria returns to Eurovision following a three-year absence. We take a look at the country's history at the Contest: a rough start in its initial tenure, a renaissance after its first hiatus, and looking ahead to how Bulgaria's next tenure may go.
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Episode 282: Momentum
November 4th, 2025 | Season 9 | 20 mins 54 secs
albania, austria, bulgaria, estonia, israel, luxembourg, moldova, montenegro, romania, san marino, spain
It was a busy October in Eurovision Land: The EBU unscheduled an extraordinary member session, two countries announced their return to the Contest, and several national selections are getting their ducks in a row. We get caught up on the headlines as Eurovision 2026 starts to take shape.
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Episode 171: Legacy
November 1st, 2022 | Season 6 | 32 mins 28 secs
albania, armenia, bulgaria, cyprus, estonia, finland, montenegro, north macedonia, norway, san marino, spain, ukraine, united kingdom
After we check in with the budding infrastructure for Eurovision 2023, we take a look at some of the non-winning entries over the years that still have an impact.
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Episode 156: Bubblicious - Eurovision 2022 Semi-Final Preview
May 8th, 2022 | Season 5 | 34 mins 31 secs
albania, armenia, australia, austria, azerbaijan, belgium, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, czechia, denmark, estonia, finland, georgia, greece, iceland, ireland, israel, latvia, lithuania, malta, moldova, montenegro, netherlands, north macedonia, norway, poland, portugal, romania, san marino, serbia, slovenia, sweden, switzerland, ukraine
We make our picks for who we think will advance from this week's Eurovision Semi-Finals. These predictions were made before rehearsals, but surely they're still accurate?
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Episode 149: Fairgrounds
March 22nd, 2022 | Season 5 | 38 mins 5 secs
albania, bulgaria, latvia, lithuania, moldova
Meredith Clark joins us to discuss Albania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova as we kick off our coverage of the first semi-final for Eurovision 2022.
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Episode 136: Eurovision 101
December 7th, 2021 | Season 5 | 36 mins 40 secs
albania, bulgaria, czechia, estonia, italy, norway, san marino, slovenia, sweden
With a lot of new folks discovering Eurovision over the past year and selection season 2022 underway, we put together a tutorial to answer the question: How does Eurovision work?
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Episode 122: Revised Head Canon
May 25th, 2021 | Season 4 | 40 mins 23 secs
bulgaria, croatia, czechia, denmark, finland, germany, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, latvia, malta, moldova, netherlands, portugal, romania, russia, san marino, switzerland, ukraine, united kingdom
Ryan's back! We help to provide a revised head canon to fill the gap between 2018 and 2021 and review this year's Eurovision Song Contest.