The ESC 2022 online and teletwitter in ORF TELETEXT
Vienna (OTS) – LUM!X showed Pia Maria his former hometown: After the first day of rehearsals, a city trip through Turin was on the program for Austria’s song contest duo. LUM!X, who lived briefly in the city in north-west Italy, took Pia Maria and the Austrian delegation to Turin’s most beautiful squares and historic city centre. On his tour he showed, among other things, the Basilica di Superga, with one of the most beautiful views over the city, the stone arch bridge Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I, the Mole Antonelliana, a symbol of the city, and the Piazza Castello with the two royal palaces Palazzo Madama and Palazzo real. LUM!X and Pia Maria then let the afternoon end with “caffè e dolci” in the city center of Turin.
LUM!X: “Yesterday afternoon we were out and about in Turin, which is my former home. And it was really great to visit and show the most beautiful places in Turin again. That gave me a lot of throwback vibes and brought back good memories.” Pia Maria also enjoyed the afternoon: “The city trip was really cool, we saw a lot of beautiful places. And one of the highlights for me was the absolutely beautiful view of the entire city from the Basilica di Superga.” Photos from LUM!X and Pia Maria’s tour of Turin are available at presse.ORF.at.
The “Eurovision Song Contest” 2022 on the Internet
ORF.at provides everything you need to know about the semifinal shows on May 10th and 12th as well as the grand finale on Saturday, May 14th. The ORF.at live ticker for the live stream is then available during the three TV shows and reports continuously and in multimedia about what is happening in front of and behind the stage in Turin. Of course, ORF.at also reviews the ESC in detail afterwards.
Fans can also be there live via the TVthek stream, and there are also comprehensive video-on-demand offers within the framework of a separate topic. And if you want to check and hear which songs and performers Austria has been part of over the past few decades, you will find what you are looking for in the ORF TVthek archive “Austria at the Song Contest”.
Teletwitter in ORF TELETEXT during the live shows
ORF TELETEXT is once again offering song contest fans a very special service with “Teletwitter”, because this year too there will be tweeting during the semi-final shows and the final in ORF TELETEXT. The Teletext editors select particularly interesting or original tweets from the comments posted on Twitter (hashtag #ESCORF). On page 780 of ORF TELETEXT, these can then be displayed at the bottom edge of the TV screen – similar to subtitles – so that viewers can follow the TV show and read fan comments at the same time. For technical reasons, tweets with images or links are excluded. Only posts with a maximum of 140 keystrokes can be considered for publication. On ORF TELETEXT page 781 there are detailed explanations, also for retrieval on set-top boxes, where subtitles and thus also the teletwitter only have to be selected in the subtitles menu of the box. Fans can also find ongoing reporting on this year’s ESC in the ORF TELETEXT in the magazine “Kultur und Show” (pages 107, 110 and from 190).
The further schedule of LUM!X feat. Pia Maria to the first semi-final of the “Eurovision Song Contest”:
Wednesday, May 4th: Second rehearsal in Turin (4.25 p.m.) and subsequent press conference (5.35 p.m.)
Sunday, May 8th: Red carpet and official opening of the ESC 22 Monday, May 9th: Dress rehearsal for the first semi-final – international juries award their points
Tuesday, May 10: ESC 2022 – First semi-final (Austria with start number 13) from 9 p.m., live on ORF 1