Eurovision 2024: Romania withdraws, TVR priorities and regional participation trends

The Romanian representative will not participate in the Eurovision 2024 international song contest. The official broadcaster of Eurovision in the country is TVR. The television company’s board of directors decided that the country would withdraw from the competition due to financial difficulties and the inability to represent Romania competitively with other countries. The broadcaster will allocate resources to broadcast the Summer Olympic Games in Paris this year and other priority projects. Eurovision 2024 will take place in Malmö, Sweden, whose representative won the 2023 contest. In recent years, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia have refused to participate in Eurovision for various reasons. On the eve of the Eurovision Song Contest organizers answered to activists’ demands that Israel not participate in the music contest. Formerly Tori Spelling said About Madonna’s secret romance with the Beverly Hills, 90210 actor.