Mario Frangoulis was a choice for ERT in the past few days. The contact took place immidiately and the artist seems to have seriously thought about it. On December 14 Mario Frangoulis was about to give an answer to ERT, the answer will be no according to exclusive information to oikotimes.com. The refusal had to do with the tour plans of Mr Frangoulis and maybe with the fact that there is too short time to find an appropraite song.

WHAT ERT WILL DO
Around January ERT will call a press conference where the broadcaster will announce the national selection for the Greek 2008 entry and performer. ERT was indeed in discussions with many record labels, artists and composers. The outcome will be to have the following participants. The number of the participants will be announced in January. So far ERT has asked the following artists to attend, most of them said yes.

01. Chrispa (still undecided) - Minos EMI
02. Kalomira Saranti - Heaven Music
03. Kostas Martakis - Sony BMG
04. A group or a solo artist (to be revealed) - Virus or Legend

Possible date for the national final in the preliminary plans of ERT is February 26 but the date is highly expected to change. Although 2 out of 4 already have a song approved by the ERT standards, the broadcaster will start searching for songs for the rest of the performers in order to have a good and fair competition. Sources close to ERT told oikotimes.com that ERT wants to air one of the best and fairest national selections ever. As previously mentioned, the announcement of the songs and their composers is expected by mid-end of January 2008.

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