The EBU representatives including Svante Stockelius started by telling the press how happy they were with the way the semi final had turned out, that it was of a high professional quality and that they were pleased with the shape that the evening took.
Sound Quality
The EBU stated that they have identified a problem with the sound during the semi final, have alerted TRT, and will do their best to sort the sound problems out for Saturday night to ensure the highest sound quality possible.
Televoting
The EBU stated that in this day and age televoting technology should be perfect. They stated that the system ensures transparancy, a word used throughout the press conference to describe the televoting. The EBU wants people to see how the system works. The bad news is, they stated, that becuase they adopt this promsie of transparacy, they deliver all mistakes when they happen rather then hiding them in the hope they will not come out. They started the lengthy explanation of televoting by firstly saying they were very pleased with their co-operation with the official televoting contractor, and that the quality of the system, the speed and the efficieny was superb. The problem they explained lay not with the televoting system itself but with two particular countries, Croatia and especially Monaco.
Croatia
In Croatia, it was a different and more staight foward problem. Croatia awarded themselves 4 points. The EBU explained that no matter how many times the audience is told not to vote for their own country, people still try it. Sure enough Croatians voted for themsleves. Usually the service provider in each country is told to delete votes for the home country and simply reject them. The Croatian system failed to delete them and included them in the vote.
Ha ha Hrvatska
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