Eurovision terminates contract with Chinese broadcaster after gay censoring.
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The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has tonight announced it has terminated its contract with the Chinese broadcaster Mango TV after it failed to broadcast Ireland's Eurovision entry.
On Tuesday the Chinese broadcaster, part of the second biggest channel in the country, edited out the Irish Eurovision entry over its depiction of a gay relationship.
Ryan O'Shaughnessy performed 'Together', qualifying Ireland for the final for the first time in five years.
China has strict broadcast rules banning any depiction of gay relationships.
Independent.ie brought the ban to international attention this morning, and after a review the EBU decided to terminate the contact with the Chinese broadcaster.
"This is not in line with the EBU's values of universality and inclusivity and our proud tradition of celebrating diversity through music.
"It is with regret that we will therefore immediately be terminating our partnership with the broadcaster and they will not be permitted to broadcast the second Semi-Final or the Grand Final."
Well Done china... again.
Good, though I don't expect China is going to become super progressive in response.
Oh no, China must be so gutted that they can't watch the Eurovision song contest.
I didn't even realize China was particularly anti-gay before now. Huh.
Do people in China even watch fucking Eurovision
They probably will, what else are they going to do, not watch Eurovision? That isn't an option
You joke, but it shouldn't be. It's camp as hell and great. China gonna miss out.
Apparently it is. I only really noticed when Vice recently revealed an interviewees orientation despite explicit agreement not to.
I hate reality TV but I absolutely fucking love Eurovision. Everything about it you can enjoy for the wrong reasons. None of the acts are ever amazing and some of them are outright poor. Graham Norton commentates and is as sarcastic as any British person is about it. It's all cheesy as fuck. The point scoring system is political to say the least which is always just really fun to see who wins. Eurovision is shit but that's why Eurovision is so fucking great.
the best entries tend to be the ones that just show up to take the piss out of the whole contest, like Lithuania in 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmE6qkKzoKc
Or the fact that we sent Lordi to the Eurovision and actually won when everyone kept bitching about it (then sent another metal band in there because it worked last time!!)
ya they weren't particularly pro gay but in recent years as asserting their eastern-ness they've decided homosexuality is contrary to chinese values as well.
Even though it’s totally in poor spirit, I have enjoyed Russia over the past few years becoming the pantomime villains of Eurovision. Last year was boring cus it was held in Ukraine and the Russian singer was banned from the country and had to drop out
It's complicated there. I know there are openly gay media people, one of the biggest shows on Chinese television is hosted transgender host.
From 2001: "China drops homosexuality from list of psychiatric disorders"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/07/china.johngittings1
But there's a lot of traditional values running around about it being bad.
I really think there should be a global version of Eurovision. Would need a much larger system of eliminations leading up to the final, but would be a lot of fun to see the music of Asian/African/American countries included
wats a eurovision
We've already got Australia contesting, it's basically leapfrogging about the world and the countries it misses thanks their lucky stars. I reckon one of the unspoken beliefs behind Brexit was that it'd get us out of the Eurovision song contest.
Having support for gay rights even merely for population control would be a really good idea
Since they don't give a shit about human rights, it would still be useful from a practical standpoint.
There's basically no reason for them to be anti-gay
Every continent should have their own (Continent)vision, and the top three of each should be entered into Worldvision, where we determine the best/most camp band in the world.
TItanvision, where the two finalists have to ascend into their custom-built battle robots and fight for dominion in the wastelands beyond while singing tales of their antics in the great wide yonder. Whole bands enter, only one contender may leave.
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