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TVM, the broadcaster of Malta, has released some details about the design of their selection for the Eurovision song contest by 2017. The most catches the eye that only one show will and that the jury is discharged. (Photo: EBU)

In previous years there was a semifinal where some candidates were, and a final with the survivors. That first step is skipped by all means next year: there will be only a broadcast, a final with sixteen participants and their songs. An exact date is not there yet, but there is in any case looked at a night in the month of February. It is for the first time since 2006 that the Maltese heat on one (long) evening is finished.

And there is still a big change. Where in previous years, the Maltese public only for a sixth of the total control, and the remaining points of jury members came, those last next year thrown overboard. Joe Bundy, the new Director of broadcasting, announced that the winner will only televoting .

To the selected winner by the public to surpass the performance of Ira Losco. With Walk on Water was they end up twelfth in the final in Stockholm. After an excellent turn to have made with the juries, she was by the voting audience just about ignored.