The United States In Eurovision

Since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is Europe's favourite TV show. After more than five decades featuring some 1,100 songs, the contest has become a modern classic, strongly embedded into Europe's collective mind. In the 1950s, as a war-torn Europe rebuilt itself, the European Broadcasting Union set up a committee to search for ways of bringing together the countries of the EBU around a light entertainment program. At a committee meeting, director general of Swiss television and committee chairman Marcel Bezençon conceived the idea of an international song contest where countries would participate in one television program to be transmitted to all countries of the union. These countries use the song contest as a means to settle differences. This is why the US should join Eurovision.