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Interested cities as of now: Wels, Innsbruck, Oberwart, Graz and Vienna. Salzburg and Klagenfurt won‘t host according to ORF. 

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The topic should say "in Vienna".

Vienna is the absolute primate city of Austria, at 2,0 million inhabitants, having more inhabitants than all of Austria's 25 next-largest cities combined. All power, history, music, culture, business, shows, arts, entertainment is centered on Vienna and other cities are third-class cities compared to Vienna. There is only like a 1% chance it will be hosted in another city. They have almost zero chance to win against Vienna.  Austria is not dezentralized as Switzerland is.

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3 minutes ago, AyeshaErotica said:

The topic should say "in Vienna".

Vienna is the absolute primate city of Austria, at 2,0 million inhabitants, having more inhabitants than all of Austria's 25 next-largest cities combined. All power, history, music, culture, business, shows, entertainment is centered on Vienna and other cities are third-class cities compared to Vienna. There is only like a 1% chance it will be hosted in another city. They have almost zero chance to win against Vienna.  Austria is not dezentralized as Switzerland is.

Graz and Innsbruck could easily host the ESC and one of them nearly did in 2015 

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12 minutes ago, AyeshaErotica said:

The topic should say "in Vienna".

Vienna is the absolute primate city of Austria, at 2,0 million inhabitants, having more inhabitants than all of Austria's 25 next-largest cities combined. All power, history, music, culture, business, shows, arts, entertainment is centered on Vienna and other cities are third-class cities compared to Vienna. There is only like a 1% chance it will be hosted in another city. They have almost zero chance to win against Vienna.  Austria is not dezentralized as Switzerland is.

Even so, Vienna is not yet confirmed as a host city. Once it is @Dutch will update the topic :) 

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14 minutes ago, Max said:

Graz and Innsbruck could easily host the ESC and one of them nearly did in 2015 

We will wait who will make it. Wiener Stadthalle has a capacity of 16,000 compared to the 12 and 11,000 of them and Wiener Stadthalle is the most modern one.

Also Vienna airport has 23 milliion passengers per year, while Graz ans Innsbruck airports have 0,5 and 0,7 million each. Also Vienna offers by far the most hotels for such a big event. And an opera song won and Vienna is like the world centre of classic opera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Austria

Also JJ was born in Vienna and made his music career in Vienna. If he was an artist form Graz or Innsbruck, these cities perhaps would have better chances.

 

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1 minute ago, Bellatrix said:

Even so, Vienna is not yet confirmed as a host city. Once it is @Dutch will update the topic :) 

Not them wanting me to spread fake news. :icant:

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We’ve had Tel Aviv, Rotterdam, Turin, Liverpool, Malmö and Basel. I don’t think Vienna will be a sure lock at all. They hosted it not that long ago. 

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55 minutes ago, Dutch said:

They actually banned Russia only because other broadcasters were withdrawing if they stayed in. EBU never had a spine. Broadcasters NEED todo the same again. Enough is enough.

to be fair, Russia censored LGBTQ+ content from the Eurovision so I don't want them back regardless of the reason why they were banned in the first place.

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40 minutes ago, Dutch said:

We’ve had Tel Aviv, Rotterdam, Turin, Liverpool, Malmö and Basel. I don’t think Vienna will be a sure lock at all. They hosted it not that long ago. 

The countries you mentioned are less hypercentralized than Austria except for the UK. Vienna hosted it already 2x, exactly because it is Vienna and it can a 3rd time.

The ratio Jerusalem-Tel Aviv is 1:2. Jerusalem is not a primate city.

Rotterdam is part of the Rotterdam-The Hague urban area and the Rotterdam-The Hague urban area is as populous as is the urban area of Amsterdam, also Rotterdam is only 45-50km away from the largest airport of the NL. Rotterdam is not a third-class city within NL but one of the 3 major big cities, perhaps 4 if we count Utrecht. 

Italy is a dezentralized country with Milan, Rome, Torino and Neapel being the 4 main centers and Rome not a primate city, as Milan is the financial centre and Torino has about 1 million inhabitants with important national function.

The ratio Stockholm-Malmö is 1:3. Malmö has lots of music academies. Also Malmö is connected via bridge to Copenhaguen, the capital of Danmark with has 600,000 inhabitants, only 30km away. There is a major airport aorund Copenhague.

Switzerland is a dezentralized country. The 3 main centres are Zürich, Basel and Geneva and seat of government is Bern. The ratio Zürich-Basel is about 1:2. The urban area of Basel extends to France and Germany. And Basel is the major arts centre of Switzerland. Basel is more internationally acknowledged than Innsbruck/Graz.

Düsseldorf is part and in the centre of the Rhein-Ruhr metropolitan area, which at 10 milliion inhbaitants, is larger than Berlin.

Liverpool so far is an example within a very hypercentralized country and rather unusual and perhaps the one and only example of a city in the very shadows of a primate city in the 21st century of the ESC.  Liverpool city has 0,5 million inhabitants and Liverpool City region has 1,5 milliion inhabitants on 903km². (The area is similair to the area of Berlin). It is 52km away from Manchester. So Liverpool's greater area isn't small. According to Wikipedia Liverpool airport has 5 milliion passengers, while Manchester, which is 52 km away, has 30 milliion passengers per year. So Liverpool's airport infrastructure and number of hotels is still much better than is Graz and Innsbruck. So if we compare Liverpool's 5 milliion airport passanger's to Graz 0,7 million passengers....

@StrawberryBlond aren't you going to a Gaga concert to Manchester? Wouldn't you say Liverppool and Manchester are somehow well connected with each other?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_City_Region

The ratio Vienna-Graz is 1:6.

The ratio Vienna-Innsbruck is 1:14.

 

Let's face it. Innsbruck and Graz are periphery cities in the Alps or at the edge of the Alps, and their whole regions have rather low population density. They do not offer as good infrastructure and hotel rooms as Vienna does. For such a big event as the ESC, I don't think any city other than Vienna will make it. For us fans, Vienna will also be a better choice.

 

 

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2 hours ago, AyeshaErotica said:

We will wait who will make it. Wiener Stadthalle has a capacity of 16,000 compared to the 12 and 11,000 of them and Wiener Stadthalle is the most modern one.

Also Vienna airport has 23 milliion passengers per year, while Graz ans Innsbruck airports have 0,5 and 0,7 million each. Also Vienna offers by far the most hotels for such a big event. And an opera song won and Vienna is like the world centre of classic opera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Austria

Also JJ was born in Vienna and made his music career in Vienna. If he was an artist form Graz or Innsbruck, these cities perhaps would have better chances.

 

I know all these facts and personally I‘m rooting for Vienna since I‘m Austrian and live there. Though Graz & Innsbruck can host it as they have the capacity for it and the infrastructure. 
 

Let‘s just wait and see :) 

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Austria had a great song but this whole competition has been rigged af since years ago.I  stopped watching/following the competition, after they banned pride flags while still letting certain countries competiting.Imagine having a predominantly queer audience and  contestants ,just to ban pride flags.

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Results this year were a bit weird.

JJ was good, but he came 4th in the Televote and got carried by the jury

Then we have Israel that definitely seems fishy. How can they come nr 1 with the most bland song and a hate train behind you.

Estonia and Sweden are the real winners. 

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2 hours ago, River said:

to be fair, Russia censored LGBTQ+ content from the Eurovision so I don't want them back regardless of the reason why they were banned in the first place.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I think Russia should’ve been out much earlier. I’m just point out that the EBU gives 0 **** about morals. 

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