Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service with me, Sean Lay.
We're coming to you live from London.
It's been one of the world's biggest annual music events for the last 70 years and these days has an audience larger than American football Super Bowl.
It is Eurovision.
The entrance from Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Spain this year.
But artists from none of those countries will be in Vienna when the Eurovision Song Contest is held in May of next year.
The broadcasters from those countries who belong to the European Broadcasting Union, the EBU,
which founded and organizes Eurovision, won't be taking part and won't be showing it.
The reason Israel will again be a contestant,
despite a minority of the 37 or so national broadcasters who attended today's meeting wanting the Israelis excluded.
At that crisis meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, some TV companies pressed for an Israeli boycott,
but the meeting decided not to vote on the issue.
The broadcasters in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands,
Slovenia and in Spain immediately announced they wouldn't be showing the competition or taking part.
One of those who attended the meeting was Natalia Gorshchak,
who is head of Slovenia's national broadcaster,
RTV Slovenia, and I asked her a little short time ago why they wanted to see Israel excluded.
I think it's obvious.
If we excluded Russia, like one week after they attacked Ukraine,
I think the same rules should be applied also to Israel.