Junior Eurovision 2011 came around, and we had a number of new firsts. In every previous contest, the host has never been the winner of the previous year. This time, and not for the first time, Armenia hosted the contest after winning. It was their first time hosting […]
Three bids were received by the EBU for the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Belarus won the right, over Russia and Malta. After the lowest number of entrants to date, a bounce back occurred with Latvia and Lithuania returning, and Moldova débuting. Unfortunately, Cyprus and Romania were both […]
Ukraine won the honour of hosting the seventh Junior Eurovision, so saw fit to host it in their capital. It was only the second time that a city had hosted both a JESC and a senior ESC. And the Palace of Sports became the only venue – to […]
The sixth JESC took us to more pastures new. At long long last, we finally saw a contest taking place in Cyprus. Naturally, there was a generally sunny theme to proceedings, even though the contest took place in November. Still, a very good choice in my opinion. Host […]
The 2007 Junior Eurovision moved back west, and made history for various reasons. The Netherlands had narrowly lost out on bidding to host the 2006 edition, so it was probably only fair they won the right to host 2007 in Rotterdam. The number of participants rose again, which […]
As you’ll know, the selections for Junior Eurovision are continuing apace, so we at EI thought it would be good to do a small round-up of where we are. Don’t forget, there are just over five weeks to the big night. Australia’s inclusion of Bella Paige and her song My […]
This seems to be becoming the way that Armenia announces their internal selection for Eurovision over the past few years. Tell us the date they will be announcing the artist and then have us all guessing. Our readers got in on the action and we opened our Poll […]
It’s time for the ‘Hokey Pokey’ dance of who is in and who is out of Eurovision 2016. Yes countries and broadcasters have that decision to make if they want to come and join the party in Stockholm next May. So let’s just have a recap of who […]
Armenia definitely have their Social Media Mojo up and running. Like last year they are using the internet to garner attention to their Eurovision hopeful as they look for their first win in the contest. They will announce their singer for Stockholm on Tuesday October 13th however we […]
If you’re an avid follower of the European Broadcasting Union, it won’t have escaped you that there’s not just the Eurovision Song Contest that is one of its major productions. One of its others is the Junior version – known to us as JESC. Is it right, you […]
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