Broadcast Contest Televoting
Televoting involves broadcasters providing an audience with different telephone numbers associated with contestants participating; the outcome is decided by the number of calls to each line. Music contests such as the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as for World Idol, American Idol, and similar contests use this method. From 1997, the European Broadcasting Union, organiser of the Eurovision Song Contest, introduced telephonic and SMS voting for competing entries in place of national juries. This allowed the voice of the television audience to become crucial to choose the winning song. Reality television contests around the world such as Big Brother can use televoting to choose a winner or to eliminate a contestant from the contest.
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