TVR will have a new approach to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2023, following controversy in 2022.
The Board of Directors has today signed off on the budget for Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2023 as well as the national selection. In an announcement TVR’s Eurovision2023 Project Manager, Mihai Predescu explained:
“We are a new team and we propose a different Eurovision contest, based on transparency, professionalism and digitization. We changed the voting system: only the public will choose the piece that will represent Romania. And one more thing: this Eurovision will be on air on TVR and much more present than in the past online, on social media networks”
In the next few days, TVR will finalise all of the details regarding the selection process and will make an open call for songs as soon as possible. TVR had previously said it was looking to sue the EBU after its jury was disqualified from the contest due to irregular voting patterns.
WRS represented Romania with “Llámame” finishing in 18th place with a total of 65 points, he received 10 points from the televote in Moldova and Spain. Romania qualified for the Grand Final for the first time since the 2017 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Image source: EBU / Nathan Reinds | Source: TVR
Romania first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, the country had tried to participate in 1993 but failed to get through the pre-qualifying round. At the 1994 contest Dan Bittman finished 21st in the final scoring 14 points, Romania didn’t make it through to another final until 1998. Romania’s best results in the contest are two third-place finishes. In 2005 Luminita Anghel & Sistem finished 3rd scoring 158 points, while Paula Seling & Ovi finished 3rd in Oslo with the song “Playing with Fire”. Romania missed the 2016 contest due to TVR being removed from the EBU.
