{"id":655,"date":"2015-09-29T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=655"},"modified":"2015-11-16T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:38:00","slug":"bbc-keert-terug-naar-voorronde-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/bbc-keert-terug-naar-voorronde-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC returns to heat in 2016"},"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<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">After five years of internal choices to have made the British broadcaster BBC, gives its viewers a say in the candidate again from next year and the song that will represent the Union Jack in the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC invites to Friday 20 november all artists older than eighteen to own songs, after which a panel over the entries will bend. Striking: a delegation of the British section of Eurovision Song Contest fan club <strong>OGAE <\/strong>may be carried in the panel.<\/p>\n<p>There is also worked with the BASCA (<em>British Academy of Songwriters, Composters and Authors<\/em>), so as to write to suitable songs.\u00a0An even number of numbers will qualify for a direct television broadcast in which only the British public already determines the winner, there will also be <strong>experts<\/strong> are having their light on the entries.<\/p>\n<p>The yet unnamed and datumloze project is led by Hugh Goldsmith, including <strong>Atomic Kitten <\/strong>and <strong>Blue<\/strong> ex-Eurovision participants. Guy Freeman of the BBC that the &#8220;the greatest quest for a Eurovision Song is that the BBC has ever undertaken.\u00a0<strong>Graham Norton <\/strong>will also already sure returning for comment in May next year. Whether he also will present the preliminary round, is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>On the last song festival was the United Kingdom represented by the duo Electro Velvet. With <em>Still In Love With You <\/em>it came no further than a 24th place in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The format and dates are still unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":749,"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":[9,372],"tags":[100,103,255,233],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm2016","category-gb","tag-bbc","tag-electro-velvet","tag-graham-norton","tag-verenigd-koninkrijk"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}