The Sopot International Song Festival (later called Intervision Song Contest, from 1977–1980) is an international song contest held in Sopot, Poland. It was the biggest Polish music festival altogether with the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, and one of the biggest annual song contest in Europe. The contest was transmitted live by the Polish state television, TVP between 1994 and 2004. Later, the concert was broadcasted by the private media station TVN. In 2012 concert will broadcast by Polsat.
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