Breaking News: Steering Group’s meeting takes place in Madrid without the presence of Martin Österdahl!

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The Steering Group for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 visited Madrid to supervise the competition’s preparations, which will be held in the Spanish capital, as seen in pictures posted on social media by Alexandra Redde-Amiel, the head of France’s delegation in both Eurovision and Junior Eurovision. The notable thing, though, is that Martin Österdahl—who serves as Junior Eurovision’s Executive Supervisor to this day—is conspicuously absent from the pictures.

The aforementioned development supports the rumor that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is seeking to remove Martin Österdahl from his position due to his poor handling of this year’s Eurovision and crisis that emerged, which brought about an abundance of negative publicity to the competition. This was also evident during the live broadcast of the Final, when he was the target of numerous and strong criticism as well as booing from the audience.

The 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Caja Mágica, Madrid on November 16, following France’s refusal to host the contest for the third time in four years.

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Malta: Present at Eurovision 2025 and Junior Eurovision 2024!

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While the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 has reached its final way, some countries have already been preparing for the next Eurovision Song Contests. Yesterday, 06/05/2024, Malta’ national TV broadcaster, PBS, confirmed that Malta is going to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2024!

In addition, PBS has also announced the second season of their new project, The Malta Eurovision Song Contest Music Exchange Camp 2024, which purpose is to create songs that will be competed in Malta’s the national selections for Eurovision 2025 and Junior Eurovision 2024. The same project also took part last year, with many songs getting that chance to compete in Malta’ national selection for Eurovision 2024.

This year, 2 categories of artists will take place. The first one will include 50 artists, starting from the age of 16 years old, and the other one will include 10 singers from the age of 9 to 14. According to PBS, the Malta Eurovision Song Contest Music Exchange Camp 2024 will take plece in June of 2024. The songs that will be written in the Camp will also have a achance to participate in the national selection of Malta.

This year, Malta is represented by Sarah Bonnici with the song “Loop” which is going to compete in the first position of the second semifinal in Thursday!

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Junior Eurovision 2024: Annabelle Ats will represent Estonia in Spain!

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Preparations for the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest have started and we now have our first participant. Annabelle Ats won the Estonian national selection, Tähtede lava, and will therefore represent Estonia in Junior Eurovision 2024.

Four young artists competed in the final of Tähtede lava:

  • Tristan Erik Teniste
  • Karl-Markkus Rebane
  • Milana Fayzullova
  • Annabelle Ats

Following the combination of public and jury voting, Annabelle Ats was crowned the winner of the selection and therefore the Estonian representative. Annabelle’s song is expected to be released at a later stage.

The 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Spain, following the refusal of France to host the event for the second consecutive year. The dates as well as the host city will be revealed soon.

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Junior Eurovision 2024: Five cities in hopes of hosting the contest!

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After the announcement that Spain will host Junior Eurovision 2024, five cities have bid to host the contest. According to the spanish media the following countries hope to be the one, that will host JESC 2024:

  • Barcelona
  • Valencia
  • Zaragoza
  • Málaga
  • Granada

The local governments of Barcelona, Málaga and the Valencian Community, have already stated their interest in bidding. RTVE, the national broadcast of Spain is going to meet with teams from all five potential host cities within a few days, in order to discuss each of the bids with production copmanies and choose the most suitable city to host the contest. The final decision will be made subsequently.

How we got to Spain?

Last year’s winner was France with Zoé Clauzure and her song “Coeur”. According to the competition’s rules, the winning country of its edition has the right of the first refusal on hosting the next year’s competition. In France’s case, bearing in mind that it has hosted the event for two times in just three years and the financial burdens due to the hosting of the Olympic Games the summer of 2024, it was not sure whether the country would be able to host again.

Hence, France Télévisions decided to hand over the organisation of the 2024 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The next country in line was Spain that finished in second place with Sandra Valero and “Loviu”.

As a result, Spain will host the Junior Eurovision for the first time twenty years following its first and only win in the contest.

Until today the countries that have either confirmed their participation or expressed their interest in Junior Eurovision 2024 are:

  • France
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • the Netherlands
  • North Macedonia
  • Poland
  • Ukraine
  • Spain

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Source: El Confiencial Digital

Spain: Two cities and a region are ready to host Junior Eurovision 2024!

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About three months after France’s third victory in four years, it was announced that Spain would be hosting Junior Eurovision 2024. Thus, Spain’s public broadcaster, RTVE, began a search for the most suitable city to host the contest.

The Generalitat Valenciana, Barcelona, and Malaga authorities have expressed interest in hosting the event thus far.

In fact, in a post on X, Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni said that the city is ready to take over the event and will reveal additional information about its bid in the coming days.

The Generalitat Valenciana region has also expressed interest. Towns like Benidorm, Valencia, and Castellon de la Plana are all within its borders. At the same time, the Presidents of Ágora and Conecta España urged the Malaga authorities to put in a bid to host the event.

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Which city would you like to host Junior Eurovision 2024?

Source: ESC Plus, Eurovision Spain