It is often claimed that the Super Bowl is the most watched program on television. It is not. That particular honor goes to a song contest, the Eurovision, which is watched on live transmission by up to 200 million viewers every year.
The contest began in the aftermath of the Second World War with the worthy aim of enabling “friendly competition” between European countries that had recently been at war with each other. That remains its noble aspiration, but politics has a nasty habit of intruding.
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