[UTVLifer]

Eurovision is amongst the latest swave of BBC programming that is to be put out to tender

www.bbc.co.uk 

Next BBC titles announced to be put out to competitive tender
Invitation to tenders will be published for Blue Peter, Eurovision Song Contest …
  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

[Brekkie]

Guessing this is because the BBC have to rather than want to.

[Kim Wexler’s Ponytail]

Guessing this is because the BBC have to rather than want to.

It's the latest wave of the deal they made in 2017 to put some in-house shows out to tender in return for BBC Studios making shows for third parties.

[ckck1704]

Iceland have officially threatened to boycott eurovision if Israel participates. Songvakeppen is now a separate contest, with the winner and RUV discussing whether to participate afterwards:

eurovisionworld.com 

Uncertain if Iceland will participate in Eurovision 2024
Due to the Israel-Hamas war and Israel's participation in Eurovision 2024, the I…
  Source: eurovisionworld.com

[ckck1704]

Romania will not participate in 2024:

eurovisionfun.com 

Romania: TVR will NOT participate in Eurovision 2024! - Eurovision News | Music …
The board of directors of the Romanian national broadcaster (TVR) did not approv…
  Source: eurovisionfun.com

[Tvarchive]

Think it’s the first time that the BBC have decided to show the Semi-Final allocation draw on iPlayer (aside from last year’s being on both BBC Two and iPlayer due to us hosting in Liverpool, of course) - usually if you wanted to watch the allocation draw it would have only been available to stream through the Eurovision website and/or YouTube.

Note, this isn't live, this is the day after the draw is made. It's most likely to block the YouTube stream also

[AxG]

The BBC ESC socials are promoting the live coverage on eurovision.tv however.
twitter.com 

[UTVLifer]

Here's the YouTube stream, which isn't geoblocked in the UK

www.youtube.com 

YouTube

  Source:

[UTVLifer]

And here's the complete semi final draw

x.com 

[Josh]

Here's the YouTube stream, which isn't geoblocked in the UK

www.youtube.com 

...which has since been replaced with this:
www.youtube.com 

Bonus points for using the right logo!