The stage for the 2007 JESC edition

The stage is 625 square meters large and it contains 50 000 liters of water.

15 cameras will be used to show you the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest and 14 000 meters of cable are needed to connect all technical equipment used for the show.

140 journalists already told that they will come to Rotterdam for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

7,500 meals will be served during the week of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

source and photo: junioreurovision.tv

JESC 2007 - Make a big splash!

esctoday.com reports:

The theme of the forthcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 8th of December will be “Water” and the motto of the event is “Make a big splash!”.

Kim-Lian van der Meij will be the female host of the show.

27 years old musical actress, presenter and a singer-songwriter, Kim-Lian van der Meij will be the female host of the 5th Junior Eurovision Song Contest. From 2003 to 2006 Kim-Lian hosted the Kids top 20 for the children network Jetix. She is famous for her hit single Teenage superstar and for her cover of Kim Wilde's hit Kids in america.

The theme of the forthcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be Water and the motto is Make a big splash!

5 Water curtains will decorate the show, 50,000 litres of water flow, drops and many wet elements, designed by Ronald van Bersselaar, explain this year’s logo of the singing girl in boots.
Special guest stars of the show will be the band Ch!pz.

The show will open with all 17 participants performing the song One World, written by Jeroen Rietbergen and Ronald Molendijk, on stage of Ahoy’ indoor sporting arena. During the opening act 70 dancers of Dance Academy Lucia Marthas will perform.

This year the EBU have contracted a cooperation with UNICEF. They become officially coproduction partner of the AVRO broadcaster for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

source:esctoday.com

Marija Serifovic and Mihai Traistariu together at Love aid concert

esctoday.com reports:

The winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, Marija Serifovic, will give a concert this winter under the title Love aid and Mihai Traistariu will be her special guest. The concert will take place around Christmas in Belgrade or Novi Sad. The show will start with an anthem dedicated to love which will be sung by all the participants of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.

The song will be titled Keep it on your mind and it will accompanied by a video clip in “all stars” style. This special song will also be performed during the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade next year.

Marija’s decision to invite Mihai to this show was taken due to the success that Tornerò had in Serbia. The song stayed four months at the at the top of the Radio Ogostar Top50, five weeks in on top of the of Radio Fm Top40 and three weeks at the top of the Radio Belgrade airplay charts. Besides this success, National Radio PTC had Tornerò on it’s playlist for almost one year.

ESC 2008: Preparations are underway

RTS, the Serbian broadcaster who will host the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest, continues working intensively to achieve a successful result for next May in Belgrade.

The stage design and the sublogo have already been decided, Evropsko Lice- the competition for the selection of the hosts is in progress, and the technical and logistical preparations necessary are already underway as well.

Two out of the 24 couples who are competing in the final round of Evropsko Lice (European Face) will have the chance of hosting both the semifinal and the final of the Serbian National Final (Beovizija). One of the two lucky couples will have the honour of presenting the Eurovision Song Contest itself, a choice to be made by the RTS viewers. Read more on esctoday.com

source:esctoday.com

Datalied stage image of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest

esctoday.com reports:

The stage design symbolises the two Serbian rivers, the Sava and the Danube and their meeting point, Kalegmedan Park, in the center.

The stage has three circular island stages around its main body. The main one is connected by a bridge to the body of the stage. On the far left and right, behind the other two island stages, there are two vertical transparent video panels which symbolise the two Serbian rivers Sava and Danube.

The main body of the stage symbolises the bridge that connects them. The central piece, comprising a four-piece flying sculpture and two long wavy steel ones, symbolises the Karamegdan Park in Belgrade. The park overlooks the point where the Sava and the Danube meet.

sources:esctoday.com ; evrovizija.com

photo:evrovizija.com

Helena Paparizou - To Fili Tis Zois - Video

Helena Paparizou - To Fili Tis Zois

Junior Eurovision 2007:Tickets reported to be almost sold out!

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam is almost sold out.

Sale started at the 18th of September last month and 7,000 tickets have been sold now. Some tickets are still available for those who plan to visit on their own.

A lot more tickets are still available for the dress rehearsal on Friday evening at www.ticketpoint.nl.

BOOK TICKETS ONLINE http://217.26.114.188/ticket4/showpagina.cfm?ID=4129

source:oikotimes.com

Anna Vissi set for UK date in November

London Greek Radio reports:

The singer had visited Amsterdam (October 5), Brussels (October 7), where she performed Eurovision entrant 'Everything' in a rendition to her greatest hits to date.

The Cyprus diva surprised the audience by singing John Elton's 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word' - "a song I love singing from when I was a child - well actually not a child" , in a jibe to the crowd.

Anna had spoken of Greek communities abroad as an extension of "the other Greece" and wanted her tour to "seduce the non-Greeks with the Greek sound and make them feel Greek during the concert" .

The fans were whipped into a veritable frenzy from Anna's sheer excitement and charismatic fervour. Her concerts in Belgium and Netherlands saw people come from England, Germany, Greece and Cyprus - with at least half of those non-Greeks. Those performances were intended to honour the victims which followed Greece's wild fires.

Her next concert will be in Johannesburg (Emperors Palace, October 13), accompanying her will be newcomer Nikos Oikonomopoulos.

London performance - 2007 Oinoussian Gala

Anna Vissi is set to perform for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Hall on Saturday 3 November, at the invitation of the Oinoussian Association and the Life Action. Event will be under the direction of Mrs. Chrysanthi Pan. Lemos.

The class act will be accompanied by the London Philarmonic Orchestra.

Read more at London Greek Radio

Serbia starts search for 2008 entry

RTS, next year's Eurovision Song Contest host broadcaster, has announced the details for the submission of entries for the next edition of Beovizija which will be held in February.

A specially appointed jury will select 20 entries to compete in the Beovizija semi final, ten of which will proceed to the final.

Songs must be in Serbian and the contest is only open for Serbian citizens. Entries must be sent to RDU Radio Televizija Srbije, Zabavni program, Takovska 10,11.000 Beograd, by November 15.

As in previous years, the songs will presented to the Serbian public in a series of shows preceding the semi final.

Read more on esctoday.com

Helena Paparizou in free Athens concert

esctoday.com reports:

Helena Paparizou, the winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, is about to give a free concert at the Athinon arena club in Athens on the 13th of October while the on next day will appear in the French TV show "Vivement Dimanche".

Helena will perform her latest single To fili tis zois (Kiss of life) while the song that will close her concert is up to the fans to decide though live digital voting.

The next day, Helena will fly to France to appear in the French TV Show "Vivement Dimanche" as Nana Mouscouri's guest. Helena will talk about the strong friendship she has with Nana Mouscouri and she will performe on of her latest songs.

Read more on esctoday.com

Serebro - "What`s Your Problem?" - VIDEO

Dima Bilan and Serebro awarded in MTV Russia Music Awards

Dima Bilan and Serebro have been awarded with "Best debut" (Serebro), "Best song", "Best Artist" and "Artist" of the year (Dima Bilan) in MTV Russia Music Awards .

Koldun, who represented Belarus on Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, was also nominated for "Best Artist" but lost the award to Bilan.

Dima Bilan -Nevozmozhnoe Vozmozhno


Lady Flame - english version

Belgrade received Helsinki city keys

On 14 september Belgrade recived Helsinki city keys.

Under great interest of the Serbian press, the Reference Group of the Eurovision Song Contest and the city delegates from Helsinki and Belgrade gathered at the City Hall of Belgrade for the official handover of the honour to host the competition.

source and photo:eurovision.tv

Eurovision 2008: The stage design and the sublogo

Seventy stage designs were submitted to RTS in the open competition proclaimed in June. The winner is the Confluence design which won first prize and 10.000 euros.



For the logo, 455 designs were submitted in the open competition held by RTS and the winner is "Mama" -first prize:10 000 Euro.


autor "Mama"

Svante Stockselius explains the new format

Eurovision.tv reports:

Svante STOCKSELIUS, Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), gives more details about the revised format. Before the weekend, Eurovision.tv announced that two Semi-Finals will take place to find the Finalists of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

You might ask yourself, when are those two Semi-Finals taking place? "The details are yet to be decided upon, but the proposal is based on the idea that the two Semi-Finals of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will be aired simultaneously on Thursday, 22nd of May from Belgrade, Serbia. If the two Semi-Finals will both be recorded, whereas only the results will be broadcast live, or if one of the Semi-Finals will be aired live and the other one recorded, is unknown yet," Svante STOCKSELIUS explains.

"Each Semi-Final is only being aired in the countries that are taking part, and only viewers from countries that take part in each respective Semi-Final can vote," he adds. All participating broadcasters can broadcast the Semi-Final(s) they are not taking part in later as well, and the Semi-Finals will be webcasted live through Eurovision.tv. To serve the fans, both Semi-Finals will also be made available on-demand the next day. "To produce the two Semi-Finals live on different nights will result in high extra costs for both the Host Broadcaster and the participating Members," STOCKSELIUS explained.

To qualify for the Final

Another possible change that is currently being considered is that From each Semi-Final, the top-9 ranked countries of the tele-voting qualify for the Final, to be aired live from Belgrade on the 24th of May. In each Semi-Final, the highest ranked country of the back-up juries that it not in the top-9 yet will receive a wildcard to the Final as well. In total, 10 countries per Semi-Final qualify for the Final, bringing the total amount of Finalists to 25. "Usually, the results from the tele-voters and the back-up juries are not very different. However, this procedure, if it should be decided upon, adds extra excitement to the show and gives the back-up jury a more prominent meaning. It is also an answer to the many requests we received to use a mixed tele-voting/jury system," STOCKSELIUS says.

More details about the final decisions of new format and the draw for the running order of each Semi-Final will be revealed later.

source and photo:eurovision.tv