When Was The Eurovision Song Contest First Broadcast?

Eurovision song contest is a competition held once every year. Thus it is an annual event. It is organized by the member countries of the European broadcasting Union. The procedure of this competition is such that every participating country submits one song which is played on live television. Then all the countries cast votes for the songs submitted by the other countries and choose the most popular song by this technique.

The first Eurovision song contest was held in the year 1956 and has been in existence since then. It is considered as one of the most-running programmes of television in the world. It has an audience of around 100 million to 600 million viewers. It is broadcast in countries like Australia, USA, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, India, Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand though they do not participate in the competition.

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Eurovision song contest was first broadcast in 1956. It is one of the longest running television programs in the world. It is widely watched, the number of audience quoted in recent research are over a 100 million viewers and 600 million viewers internationally. This contest is broadcast around the globe in countries like Canada, Australia, Jordan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA etc. but all these countries do not participate in the contest. The Eurovision song contest started broadcasting over the internet since the year 2000. It had over 140 countries and 74,000 online viewers in the 2006. The participating countries are mostly European countries.

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The eurovision song contest was first held in 1956.

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