GENEVA — The Swiss metropolis of Basel will host subsequent 12 months’s Eurovision Music Contest from Could 13 to 17, organizers introduced Friday.
The principally German-speaking metropolis on the Rhine River bordering each France and Germany was chosen over Geneva in a faceoff that generated buzz and anticipation throughout Switzerland.
“The federal government council is delighted with the choice and sees internet hosting the world’s largest music competitors as an amazing alternative,” Basel’s metropolis council mentioned in a press release. “Basel will do every little thing in its energy to be a superb host.”
The Alpine nation gained the fitting to host the annual glitzy song-and-dance extravaganza, which attracts a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of viewers worldwide, after Swiss singer Nemo gained the competition’s 68th version in Could in Sweden.
Swiss public broadcaster SSR-SRG mentioned the number of Basel and the St. Jakobshalle indoor area was made primarily based on standards together with the corridor’s suitability to host the occasion, sustainability and issues of safety, funds made accessible and “inventive concepts for the facet occasions.”
Nemo was the primary Swiss winner since 1988, when Canada’s Celine Dion competed underneath the Swiss flag.
The track contest is organized annually by the European Broadcasting Union, which is predicated in Geneva, with dozens of collaborating broadcasters.
Basel’s metropolis council cited an EBU research that discovered this 12 months’s contest within the Swedish metropolis of Malmö reached greater than 160 million TV viewers and over 80 million YouTube customers all over the world. It mentioned the promoting worth of the occasion was estimated to be 805 million euros ($892 million).
Switzerland hosted and gained the primary version within the southern metropolis of Lugano in 1956.
