That’s a very fine question and TVR are going to answer it for us!
“Romanian Television in collaboration with the Local Public Administration of BAIA MARE Municipality organizes the Eurovision National Selection 2016.
The shows will take place at Polivalenta Hall, in Baia Mare and will reveal the song representing Romania at the Eurovision. The two events – the semi-final, on Friday, March 4th and the final, on March 6th will be broadcasted live by TVR channel.
Baia Mare city is registered in the fight for winning the title of European Capital of Culture 2021 and will host the National Selection shows in Polivalenta Hall “Lascar Pana”. The capacity of the hall is of approximately 2500 seats.
“The organising of the National Selection outside Bucharest’s studios has already become a tradition for TVR. The last shows have been held in Brasov city, in the year 2014 and in Craiova city, in the year 2015. This year was the turn of the inhabitants of Baia Mare to watch from the stands the evolution of the performers, within Eurovision contest”, has declared Iuliana Marciuc, the Head of Romanian Delegation. „The special offer of the hosts from Baia Mare, of the City Mayor, Mr Catalin Chereches and of the Local Council Baia Mare, has fully compensated the great distance between Bucharest and Baia Mare. So, therefore, we are convinced that the two shows which are going to be organized here will be truly impressive. We use this opportunity to thank our partners who make Eurovision project possible.” said Iuliana Marciuc.
Despite the very delicate financial situation, TVR is making great efforts in order to take an active part at the most important European music contest.
The winner of the National Selection will go on stage in Stockholm on May 12th, in the second semi-final of the contest, and the final will take place on May 14th. ”
Well that’s that then!
Televote and Jury for the songs to decide the winner. 4th March for a Semi Final, 6th March for a Final.
The 12 lucky souls for the Semi Final are Shown below. As you can see 4 qualified from the jury and 2 by televote. The final, on Sunday 6th, had those 12 on pure televote and the result is directly below.
It seems that Ovidiu wasn’t the fans (or Mihai’s) first choice. So much so, he took to twitter and facebook to complain. But, Mihai, it has a man with a sword in it… you can’t beat that!!!
I’ll get an Mp3 up soonish – but the video will do for now 😉
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