Talk:Intervision Song Contest

Inclusion of Finland
What was the reason for the inclusion of Finland, which was not an Eastern Bloc country? Pimlottc 13:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Finland was, according to article, member of International Radio and Television Organisation. Otherwise, Finland has also participated in all this time at Eurovision Song Contest although the majority of countries there were part of the Western bloc (with a few exceptions: Sweden, Malta, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Morocco) where Finland was not part but was member of European Broadcasting Union. Another reason might be that the Finnish songs at Eurovision Song Contest has had very poor results (they have won only in 2006 year although they competing from the fifties) and they're increased their chances (they have won the last Intervision Song Contest)? In addition, Finland has tried to keep a neutral policy towards the two superpowers, so even today is not a member of NATO and has close relations with neighboring Russia (with whom has a long history of political, cultural and economic relations). I believe that all those things affect the decision of their public television? I know that late with the answer, but better late than never (: . Have a nice day. --MirkoS18 (talk) 17:14, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * see also Sopot International Song Festival, there even singers from USA take part.--MirkoS18 (talk) 17:25, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Inactivity
As I browsed this article, I was struck by how ugly the grey participation table looked. I am aware of the fact that the colour grey is intended to show that all the countries are inactive, but it is redundant it is when the entire article is about a currently defunct contest, and only serves to make the article less readable. I just wanted to check with everybody before making changes. —  Tuxipεdia ( talk ) 23:56, 4 May 2017 (UTC)


 * A music competition based on the international meeting "Intervision". The organization itself met in 1960 as part of the International Broadcasting and Television Organization. The intervision of nature is mainly in the public community. The permanent bodies of Intervision - the Intervision Council, the Coordinating Technical Center, the Center for Software Discovery - were located in Prague. Initially, Intervision included the USSR, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Independent individuals were also assessed Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia. These countries have been in the zone of special attention of television programs and broadcasts since 1962. Since April 1963 Bulgaria and Romania have become the Intervisions. Later, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Cuba, Mongolia, Finland, Vietnam, Afghanistan got into Intervision. In work Interview views of TV organizations of Yugoslavia. Intervision programs were dominated by reports and events, with the exception of children's, music, and entertainment programs. Every year in the Polish city of Sopot, a song contest was held, which in 1977 received the official name "Intervision". Guests were also heard, including Gloria Gaynor, Petula Clark, the Boni M group and others.
 * The development of the song contest was hindered by political events in Poland: by the summer of 1980, in Gdansk, busy working bastos were adding to the sensations of the Solidarity movement. The following year, the Polish authorities declared martial law, tanks and armed police appeared on the streets, and the contest was not held in Sopot.
 * In 1983, Intervision organized and held a competition in seven cities, including Tampere, Moscow, Warsaw, Sofia, and Prague. The Polish performer Zbigniew Wodetsky won the Grand Prix with the song “I love to go back to where I have already been” (Lubie wracac tam gdzie bylem)[4][5], among the winners is Marina Florea (rum)rus. (Romania), Margarita Goranova (Bulgaria), Karel Chernokh (Czechoslovakia). When the song contest was held in Poland in 1984, it again became known as the musical venue in Sopot[6].
 * Intervision is widespread with the home of the decaying socialist camp[7]. Since then, the idea to revive the competition arose. In particular, an initiative was put forward to revive the competition within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization[8].
 * "Five stars. Intervision"
 * Main article: 2008 Intervision Song Contest
 * In 2008, the Red Square company, together with the first channel, proposed to revive the competition in Sochi[2]. The idea to give the All-Russian competition of young performers "Five Stars" an international status has been floating around the sea for a long time. For three years, Channel One held this festival in protocol, and every year the organizing committee received applications from other countries. For the fourth time, the rules for reviewing events. In order to attract more interest to Five Stars, it was decided to change the format of the competition and rename it to Five Stars. Intervision".
 * And again the end
 * According to the new rules that Channel One introduced in 2008, the next Intervision contest was to be held in the winning country. In the spring of 2009, the organizers of the competition visited Dushanbe, who, together with the Tajik side, decided to hold the competition in the cultural and entertainment complex "Kokhi Borbad". However, later the date of the event was postponed from August to October[9]. In October 2009, Abdurahmon Abdumannonov, First Deputy Chairman of the Meeting on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Tajikistan, stated that a letter from the Russian side had been officially accepted from the organizers of the competition, the Red Square and First Council companies, in which they notified the Tajik side “of their unwillingness to responsibility." competition in Dushanbe this year”[10]. Also, the organizers of Intervision decided to participate in the competition of the member countries of the Shanghai Organization and Cooperation, in connection with this, it was decided to postpone its holding to 2010. 37.54.230.242 (talk) 13:40, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Solidarity, which was judged by other Eastern bloc communist governments to be "counter-revolutionary" Yes no, carried out in the flesh until the collapse of the socialist camp in 1991 37.54.230.242 (talk) 13:41, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

1965 is the original Intervision
Dr. Dean Vuletic seems to be the most prominent researcher on Intervision, and his work says that intervision started in '65 based on documents from the time. It's discussed in his book Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest. He says the idea that Intervision started in '77 at Sopot is a myth. This whole page will need to be reworked, because it seems to be very inaccurate at the moment.Verilyb (talk) 08:04, 1 May 2023 (UTC)