Penultimate #EurovisionAgain this Saturday 16 October 📼

12 October 2021 at 12:00 CEST

Eurovision rewatch party #EurovisionAgain is back this Saturday for its penultimate outing this year. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been raiding the vaults of national broadcasters in order to give fans the chance to experience a classic Contest together.

This Saturday (16 October) we’ll visit another classic Eurovision Song Contest at 21:00 CEST – but what is #EurovisionAgain and how can you join in?

#EurovisionAgain in a nutshell: the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel premieres a classic Contest from yesteryear at 21:00 CEST on the third Saturday of each month – but the year isn’t revealed until 15 minutes beforehand.

Fans are invited to watch it in sync, download scorecards and Tweet along using the hashtag: #EurovisionAgain.

London was the destination for the previous #EurovisionAgain; it was the first time in over 50 years that the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest had been broadcast in full. You can still watch that Contest until this weekend over on the official Eurovision YouTube channel, thanks to the BBC.

📺 Watch: Eurovision Song Contest 1968 (Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom)

About #EurovisionAgain

#EurovisionAgain began in March 2020 as a weekly way for fans to catch-up with one another online as COVID-19 restrictions led to national lockdowns and the eventual cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest that year.

Eurovision enthusiasts followed the @EurovisionAgain account on Twitter and tweeted along to the retro shows using the hashtag #EurovisionAgain – causing the parties to become a globally trending topic on more than 20 occasions and raising over £25,000 for charities in the process.

The synchronised re-watch parties will take place on the third-Saturday of each month in 2021, and there are two remaining:

Saturday 16 October
Saturday 20 November

#EurovisionAgain will then step aside for Junior Eurovision and National Final Season 2022.

As always, the Contests could be any of those available from the archives of Eurovision.tv or previous Host Broadcasters – and the year isn’t revealed until 15 minutes prior to it premiering on the official Eurovision YouTube channel. The EBU aims to keep each Contest online for at least one month after their debut (though this depends on individual broadcasters).

Fans are encouraged to prepare snacks, download the scorecards and tweet along using the hashtag #EurovisionAgain – because Eurovision is best watched together.

Diva to diva: Carola hands Linda Martin the 1992 trophy

You have never been to my show…

Of course, some Contests are easier to secure than others – as you can imagine, broadcast rights for television shows are extremely complicated things, especially when you mix in the copyrights of a bunch of songs and consider that some broadcasters (and even countries) no longer exist!

Behind the scenes, broadcasters are going to great lengths to assist in the finding and signing off of classic Contests.

There’s a lot to unravel prior to 2004, but it’s our mission to bring you the highest quality versions of as many Eurovision Song Contests as we can over the next few years.

Here are the shows #EurovisionAgain has already revisited:

1960s