Eurovision 2023 - BBC

[gottago]

The issue of the cost of the contest is a difficult one for the BBC in particular. The contest these days is heavily sponsored, if you saw this year's on a commercially funded broadcaster you'd have seen the loog of Morroccan Oil pop up every time the ESC logo did, and the credits contained many commercial company names.

Thing is that the British viewers don't see them, so the assumption will be that it will be entirely BBC funded.

It also puts the beeb into the issue of making a show and event that is heavily commercialised without it seeming like it is to the public. They also might be some internal complications too but as it'll presumably be produced by their commercial arm BBC Studios that should be less of an issue than it would have been 10 tears ago

There will be some way around it. The 2014 contest had a ton of sponsors despite it being on DR which is commercial free but also IIRC doesn't have any sponsorship opportunities, unlike Norway and Sweden which can have their larger productions sponsored. So essentially they were the same boat as the BBC but managed to get around it somehow. It could be as simple as sponsorship being organised through the EBU rather than the BBC.