Portugal : Dates Released for Festival da Canção Eurovision 2015 selection RTP (Portuguese National Broadcaster) have announced the dates of the Festival da Canção that will decide Portugal’s entry for Eurovision 2015. March 3rd and 5th will see the 2 semi finals, with the Grand Final on Saturday march […]
RTP (Portuguese National Broadcaster) are ‘Mantê-lo na família’ as they say in Portugal. Once again Portugal will use the Festival da Canção for their Eurovision selection. This year the broadcasters have made some changes to the selection criteria. Composers again have been invited to participate in the festival. Firstly […]
Portugal in their search for their first ever win at Eurovision will turn to old faithful to make their selection for Vienna. OGAE Portugal has confirmed that the Portuguese National Broadcaster (RTP) will use the ‘FESTIVAL RTP DA CANÇÃO’ to find the song that will represent Portugal in […]
Today sees another country officially confirm their participation at Eurovision 2015. Still waiting for their first – and long overdue – win at Eurovision the Iberian jewel of Portugal will be at Eurovision in Austria next year. ESCPORTUGAL in an interview with RTP (Portuguese National Broadcaster) Program Director Hugo […]
Welcome back to Eurovision Dear Portugal. Tonight is the semi final of their “Festival da cancao” celebrating 50 years of competing at Eurovision. You can follow our blog from 22:15 (CET) here. Just refresh the page for your update. 10 songs compete for 5 places in the final […]
PORTUGAL – RTP (The Portuguese national broadcaster) has released the names of the 10 composers that have been invited to compete in the Festival da Cançao 2014 – the Portuguese National Selection for Eurovision 2014. The 10 Invited Composers Are : Marc Paelinck Emanuel Janvandijk Nuno Feist Andrej […]
Portugal – Celebrating their return to Eurovision and their 50th anniversary in the contest will stage the Festival da Canção over 2 shows. The first show will have 10 songs compete which will then be reduced down to 5. The remaining 5 songs will then be performed in the […]
In July we reported that Portugal were potentially reviewing a return to Eurovision 2014 – see here – Well our good friends at “escXtra” have added further information to Portugal at next year’s contest. According to escXtra, sources close to RTP (Portuguese Broadcaster) are currently planning a Delegation […]