Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 1956

message: "Only solo artists were permitted to compete." The reference given in the article for that claim are the offical rules. However, I cannot find any article nor sentence in the rules that states that only solo artists are allowed...?! In contrast, article IV states that, apart from the restriction of originality and duration, "...no other restriction is brought up, neither to the choice of each of the participants of the performed works, nor to the choice of the performers of these works..." (my translation). Any objections to deleting that sentence from the article? EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 12:21, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not 100% certain where this came from, I checked some of the other offline sources used in this article and I couldn't find anything eiter, so I went ahead and removed this sentence. Thanks for flagging! Sims2aholic8 (talk) 09:30, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules: solo artists 

message: In one of the promotional material a Dutch researcher handed me, there was a page exclusively about the 5 conductors. https://twitter.com/LewisTheJej/status/1667445732482113536 (2nd photo)
At the bottom however, it mentions several international broadcasters like the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and other European broadcaster that would later compete.
The section is called “Lista de collegamenti”, or “connection list” in English. The reason these other broadcasters are mentioned, was because  the 1956 contest would be taped on either radio or television, depending on the country, and they would be given to the broadcasters’ archive.
They sent copies to Australia, Austria, Canada, Monaco, Portugal, and Türkiye, with either radio or television tapes.
Maybe if we’re lucky, a tape from either one of these countries could still exist. I sent this to many of my contacts, and one told me that Australia and Canada could still have a copy, or at least something. He has hope that Canada could have a TV tape, as they kept their archives fresh. Jusherman (talk) 05:33, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  International distribution 

message: As far as I can see from the Wikipedia page of NWDR, NWDR ceased to exist on 1 January 1956. It was replaced by the two distinct broadcasters NDR and WDR. They both formed the Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (NWRV) with the aim to produce television programs for Deutsches Fernsehen. As far as can be read from the German Wikipedia page of NWRV, NWRV replaced NWDR for television programs on 1 April 1956. NDR and WDR already had their separate radio programs/stations from 1 January 1956 on.
The German national final, held on 1 May 1956, was organised by NWRV.
Any objections to changing NWDR to NWRV in the naming of the participating broadcaster? --EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 07:50, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  German broadcaster: NWDR / NWRV 

message: The designation "Radiotelevisione svizzera" in the article seems anachronistic as RSI didn't have a TV station in 1956 (they started TV broadcasts only in 1958, see Radiotelevisione_svizzera#History). Usually the historical names of the broadcasters used in that respective year are used in the ESC articles, such as "Deutsches Fernsehen" for the German TV, and RTF for the French TV. As for RSI, its official name seems to have been "Radio Svizzera Italiana", see p. 65 in: 
By the way, as RSI, for obvious reasons, didn't have any own TV cameras back then and couldn't produce the show on its own, an OB van from Swiss German Television (SRG) came from Zurich to Lugano in May 1956, where it stayed a whole week and produced several television programs, including the ESC. This was reported by Swiss newspapers at the time, see: Journal et feuille d’avis du Valais (9 May 1956), Oberländer Tagblatt (26 May 1956).
If there are no objections, I will replace "Radiotelevisione svizzera" with "Radio Svizzera Italiana" and add the information about the co-production. EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 11:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and changed the broadcaster name on the article to "Radio svizzera di lingua italiana", which appears to be the correct name for the radio broadcaster until the merging of the radio and television departments in 2009 (see RSI page on company history). That's some useful information about how the Swiss German broadcaster helped out with technical equipment, and is definitely worth inclusion here. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 12:55, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for going ahead, but one commentary: "Radio svizzera di lingua italiana" isn't entirely correct either. It seems to have been the official name only from the 1990s on. According to p. 58 in the book chapter by Scherrer (reference above, link), the change from "Radio della Svizzera italiana" (p. 58) or "Radio Svizzera Italiana" (p. 65 and your link of the RSI page: "all’epoca si chiamava Radio Svizzera Italiana") to "Radio svizzera di lingua italiana" was made in the 1990s to mark the "national orientation" of its television and radio programs. The fact that it was commonly just called "Radio Monte Ceneri" or "Radio Lugano" in newspapers of the time, complicates the matter a little further. EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 13:14, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  RSI / Radiotelevisione svizzera + co-production with Swiss German TV