[Stooky Bill]

I hadn't heard the UK entry being performed on stage until last night and she was very quiet in the mix. Thought it was a half decent song, sounded lots better on radio/video although possibly in hindsight a bit too quirky lyric-wise and not the same positive vibe as some of the others

Great staging though, but as I said last night a really bad place in the running order. Not only is last the kiss of death, but she came after the crazyness of Croatia - you can't follow an act like that. She got lost in the show somewhat, it deserved batter than that

Sweden is an odd winner for me as it made no impression at all, another year when I wake up and hear who won, and have to find it to watch as I can't remember anything about it!

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Interestingly it seems the subtitles don’t work on the signed version, which seems a bit odd.

A bit, but the number of households that would need both is probably very very low

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Fair enough if you know for sure! I just didn't quite understand why the BBC would be blanking stuff if they had access to a clean feed.

As I've already said in an earlier post - I suspect the commercial free version is just free of sponsorship in graphics, but not in VT segments. I'll have to try and compare the two when I can, but that makes sense as its straightforward to have multiple graphics engines, but less so to run multiple versions of video clips. 

Also as said above (and in the article above that) the BBC gallery have the main version available too so need to have the blanking available should that be used

Going back to the issue of clean versions, I had a chance to compare.... 

The sponsor logo appeared on the stings throughout the show it looked like it was added downstream of the actual sting, if so it was easy to omit it from the 'clean' graphics output. It came on and off screen after and before the animation to make it easy to blank too if need be 

The credits were the same on both, so yes the BBC either ran their own over the top either in full or part