The AVROTROS will delay Cornald Maas’ commentary during the Eurovision Song Contest, so that he does not always reveal the results early. “We will of course solve this.”
It was an annoyance of TV-watching the Netherlands yesterday: the winning countries were always revealed in the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest by Cornald Maas, one second before the Swiss presenters did. Does he want to prove that he knows it just a little earlier than the rest? “Keep your waffel closed!”, It sounded.
Spoiler
According to Cornald himself this is different. According to him, it is a technical error. “Apparently there was such a big delay. I see what is happening and of course say what happened. I knew nothing about it. So I threw the glass ball of others at horror elements,” he says in the podcast 100% Songfestival.
The commentator indicates that AVROTROS will ensure that this delay is removed for the second semifinal on Thursday, ‘so that I am not a meat spoiler indeed’.
No idea
Is the Songfestival delayed delayed due to fear of political statements? “I actually have no idea. I am also so ate technical that – now that I am alone in the commentator sector and not with Jacqueline like last year, or Jan Smit all those years – that someone is sitting next to me to solve things, should something go wrong.”
Ah, apparently there is room for that, while there would have been no place in this box for a second commentator. Anyway: that special person was unable to solve it either. “We didn’t all control this.”
Dissolved
AVROTROS confirms the problems with Cornald’s comments. “It was a technical issue, so the sound led a fraction on the image,” says a spokesperson in it Ad.
“We will make sure that this has been resolved Thursday and Saturday.”