{"id":805394,"date":"2020-03-18T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969046"},"modified":"2020-03-18T08:43:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:43:39","slug":"eurovision-2020-canceled-over-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/eurovision-2020-canceled-over-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2020 Canceled Over Coronavirus Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eurovision 2020<\/a> has been canceled due to the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic, the European Broadcasting Union announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with deep regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam,\u201d the EBU wrote in a statement. \u201cOver the past few weeks we have explored many alternative options to allow the Eurovision Song Contest to go ahead. However the uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19 throughout Europe \u2013 and the restrictions put in place by the governments of the participating broadcasters and the Dutch authorities \u2013 means the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has taken the difficult decision that it is impossible to continue with the live event as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

The European music contest was originally scheduled for this May; it will be the first time that Eurovision has not been held annually in its 64-year history. The EBU statement goes on to say that it will \u201ccontinue a conversation\u201d with regards to hosting the event in 2021.<\/p>\n

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An official statement from the European Broadcasting Union on the #Eurovision<\/a> Song Contest 2020. pic.twitter.com\/b3h7akxvpF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Eurovision Song Contest (@Eurovision) March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eurovision is just the latest major music event to be canceled or postponed due to the spread of coronavirus<\/a>. This week, Glastonbury Festival organizers announced that the event for this year had been canceled<\/a>, and organizers for other events like Miami\u2019s Ultra Music Festival have chosen to pursue livestream alternatives<\/a> for the concerts.<\/p>\n

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Eurovision 2020 has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Broadcasting Union announced on Wednesday. \u201cIt is with deep regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam,\u201d the EBU wrote in a statement. \u201cOver the past few weeks we have explored many alternative options to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 00:59:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}