Malta Song for Europe

The Malta Song for Europe Festival 2005, never short of controversy, takes place this week end. This year the public will select the song that will represent Malta in the Eurovision song contest by televoting. The voting public will listen to the songs just once:

The MaltaSong board is prohibiting the songs to be online before the festival. MaltaMedia OnLine Network requested Malta Song a digital copy of all the songs to enable us to make clips available as web streams on EurovisionMalta.com. However, for an unknown reason, Malta Song did not even reply to two requests MaltaMedia sent by e-mail. Regarding this situation, MaltaMedia founder and artistic director Toni Sant questioned if the reason behind this decision is an attempt to preserve CD sales. He said, “What could be more important than marketing the 22 songs, singers and songwriters in any way possible to the people televoting for them this weekend?”

Toni Sant asks whether the chairperson of the Malta Song board has a conflict of interest.

News about Malta from the daily Eurovision centre