Eurovision song (Eng. Eurovision Song Contest, fr. Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson), first held in 1956, the annual festival of pop music competitions with a large number of countries covered by the spread of television, in which participating musicians from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are active members of the European Broadcasting Union.
The name of the festival is linked to a television distribution network Eurovision (as it is now usually involves itself Pesma Eurovision), European Broadcasting Union, which covers a billion potential viewers. Today, through radio and television, except in Europe, the program transmits and worldwide, and direct videotokom via the Internet. European Broadcasting Union is an organization completely separate from the European Union.
American network NBC is in negotiations with the ERU about redemption rights for the U.S. version of the competition