United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest once again choosing which song to enter into the contest. Since 2017, the votes from a professional jury panel have been combined with the public vote to select the winner. Even though the United Kingdom was entered twice into with Cliff Richard's 1968 runner up entry "Congratulations" and Brotherhood of Man's 1976 winning song "Save Your Kisses for Me", the BBC decided not to participate in airing the event or taking part in the voting for the greatest Eurovision Song of the past fifty years, but instead aired an hour-long special programme entitled "" hosted by Terry Wogan looking back
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 the biggest selling winning single in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. By scoring 164 points out of a possible maximum of 204, the UK achieved the highest relative score ever reached under the "Douze Points" voting system inaugurated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 and used ever since, with 80.40% of the possible score attained. No song has ever achieved this since, although previously in 1973, Luxembourg's winning entry scored 80.60% under a different voting system. Michael Aspel also provided the television commentary for the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest for BBC 1, Terry Wogan once again