{"id":14312,"date":"2017-02-22T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=14312"},"modified":"2017-02-25T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T20:48:05","slug":"kiev-2017-christer-bjorkman-aangesteld-als-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/kiev-2017\/kiev-2017-christer-bjorkman-aangesteld-als-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christer Bj\u00f6rkman appointed producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the official website of the Eurovision Song Contest is to read that Christer Bj\u00f6rkman today for the third time has been appointed as producer of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rkman has been producing for years, the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest <strong><em>Melodifestivalen <\/em><\/strong>heat and also the recent song festivals from 2013 and 2016 (both in Sweden) are on his name as producer. The EBU retrieves Bj\u00f6rkman in the organisation team <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/kiev-2017\/groot-deel-comite-kiev-2017-neemt-ontslag\/\" target=\"_blank\">after the previous team there last week threw in the towel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The responsibility of Bj\u00f6rkman is, like last year in Stockholm, taking care of the<strong> &#8216; look and feel &#8216;<\/strong> of the stage performances of each country. Of course, let the guy know delighted with its function. In a comment he says: &#8216; I think it&#8217;s great to be back and to work on what is sure to be the biggest music event in the world. I look forward to working together with the beautiful team of UA: PBC <em>(the Ukrainian broadcaster, ed.)<\/em> and I am convinced that together we will produce the best game so far! &#8216;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Other newcomers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other people involved in the Eurovision team include Larysa Koval as Sales Director, Oleh Zapadniuk as head of the security and Kyrylo Voronin as <em>event manager<\/em>. All they have already experience at other big events that took place in Ukraine, such as the Eurovision song contest 2005 or the <strong>European Football Championship<\/strong> in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Ola Sand, the <em>executive supervisor <\/em>of the Eurovision song contest, let understand that it is time for the Ukrainian-Swedish team eliminated the delays in terms of organization: &#8216; now that many of the key features are filled in, it is important that the EBU and the UA: PBS continue to implement the approved plans [&#8230;] to <strong>a successful Eurovision<\/strong> in May. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>The news of the addition of Christer Bj\u00f6rkman was announced in a YouTube video here on the channel of the Eurovision Song Contest:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"LBFwT-dCxpw\" data-time=\"0\">\n<div class=\"play-button\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"play-button\" alt=\"play\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/themes\/songfestival\/img\/play.svg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there are new names in the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2121],"tags":[968,621,254,2130,1835,2117,2506,2898,35,218,19,1834,497],"class_list":["post-14312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiev-2017","tag-christer-bjorkman","tag-ebu","tag-eurosong","tag-eurosong-2017","tag-eurovisiesongfestival-2017","tag-kiev","tag-kiev-2017","tag-mello","tag-melodifestivalen","tag-oekraine","tag-songfestival","tag-songfestival-2017","tag-ukraine"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}