Czech Television (ČT), broadcaster behind Czechia's participation, has revealed most of the cost related to their participation in 2026 based on a request for information under Act No. 106/1999 Coll., on Free Access to Information.

ČT revealed financial costs of:

• Preparatory work on the project (EN 2025) = Approx. €18,580.04
• International transport = Approx.
• Stage presentation and technical production = Approx. €93,634.21
• Costumes, make-up, and performer preparation = Approx. €4,048.58
• Promotional and marketing activities = Approx. €4,291.50
• Travel and accommodation for the Czech Television delegation and performers = Approx. €50,812.19
• Personnel costs/remuneration for involved employees and external collaborators = Approx. €41,317.81

The person also asked total overall costs and the specific costs relating to the participation fee and broadcasting rights, which ČT refused to share.

The document also mentions decision related to ESC 2027; the participation is currently being considered in Czech Television’s preliminary programming plans or budgetary planning. The final decision on whether the Czech Republic will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027 is expected to be made in October 2026.

According to Tuoi Tre's source, Toc Tien will be the representative of Vietnam to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026, an international music contest scheduled to take place in Thailand in November.

This is the Asian version of the Eurovision Song Contest, a music playground with a 70-year history. Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026 will be broadcast in coordination with Channel 3 (Thailand) and TV stations from many countries in the region.

In Vietnam, the program has the participation of VTV3 in broadcasting.

This year's season brings together representatives of 9 countries including Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Bhutan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Nepal, Laos and Bangladesh.

Since making her mark through The Remix in 2015, Toc Tien has gradually become an all-around artist of V-pop. She owns a series of hit songs such as Someone loves you like me, Tears of me wipe with new love, 906090...

The beauty also made her mark through many TV shows and art projects. A recent highlight is Beautiful Sister Riding the Wind 2024, where Toc Tien burst into tears and admitted that she lost her "career fire" after about 2 years of feeling confused and slowed down.

Throughout the journey of "riding the wind and turning the waves", she showed her stage staging thinking, sharp choreography, confident demeanor and powerful voice, constantly changing her style.

With performance experience and modern musical colors, Toc Tien is expected to bring an energetic performance when representing Vietnam at Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026.

Happy new Eurovision year everyone! 🎉

We’ve been working over the past year on something special to satisfy our nerdy Eurovision heart, and we felt it's time to share it with the rest of the fan community!

The Eurovision Atlas is an interactive graph engine of the full history of the Eurovision Song Contest - 1842 songs with over 12,000 people who worked behind them, united by music... and now also by a map :)

It's a visual platform for you to explore the credits of any Eurovision song, and then continue discovering what other songs its artists, songwriters and others were credited on... and then who were credited on these songs, and so on... Until you’re all soaked up in ESC fever!

We also took it one step further and added:

• A search engine to find the shortest Eurovision connection between any two songs or people (ahem Francesca Michielin - there's always some degree of separation!)
• Gallery of stories we curated for the most interesting patterns we could find (e.g. Who's the most prolific songwriter? And which two lead artists were also backing vocalists for each other?)

Go ahead and start exploring now on europarty.app/atlas (works best on desktop, but available also on mobile - still in beta). We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! 💜

P.S

Curious to see what interesting connections you can find - you can use the share button at the bottom to "Share this view" and get a direct link for your graph. The amount of new facts we learned about some of our favourite songs or artists was genuinely exciting!

The 6 finalists for the Ukrainian national selection for Junior Eurovision 2026 have been selected:

• Anastasiya Poshedina – "Krila" (Wings)
• Roman Doroshenko – "Say Hello"
• Erika Kolesnichenko – "NE kolyskova" (NOT a lullaby)
• Dmytro Karabet – "Mamo" (Mother)
• Marko Serdynskyi – "Hory" (Mountains)
• Zlata Solonenko – "Who am I" 

The songwriters for the contestants were chosen through a draw. Svitlana Tarabarova wrote songs for Roman Doroshenko, Dmytro Karabet and Erika Kolesnichenko. alyona alyona (Ukraine 2024) wrote the songs for Anastasiya Poshedina, Marko Serdynskyi and Zlata Solonenko.

The national finale will take place on Sunday, September 13, at 6:00 p.m. EET (5:00 p.m. CET).

We are looking for solo artists, bands, and musical projects across all genres capable of captivating international audiences with a strong, contemporary, and compelling live performance. Key criteria include artistic quality, a distinctive personal style, and a song with the potential to reach an audience of millions.

Your application should include:
one or more representative songs or demos
information on previous musical work and live performance experience
contact details as well as links to your website and social media channels

Selection will be made by an internal ORF expert jury. Selected acts will be invited for further discussions or auditions.

Submission deadline: September 18, 2026

Minimum age: 18 years

I'm planning a trip to Thailand to see Eurovision Asia and wanted to know the process of buying tickets. However there doesn't seem to be much inofrmation online regarding when the tickets will be on sale. Does anyone know when they might go on sale?

SBS has announced their programming for 2027 including confirming Australia's participation for Eurovision next year.

"The Eurovision Song Contest returns in 2027 after more than 3.27 million Australians tuned in this year, with Australia’s Delta Goodrem taking an impressive fourth place in Vienna, Austria. As Eurovision heads to Bulgaria, who will represent Australia in 2027?"

Perhaps a bit off-topic, so please remove my post if so.

I went back and watched some interviews with the band and they sometimes mention a Discord server. Could someone please send me an invite link? 🥺 I'm curious what the community is like.

I am from Turkey and have never been abroad. I want to go to Eurovision 2027 since it is really close to me. However i am wondering how do we get tickets for Eurovision and is it too hard? Also how much would it cost me?

It’s September 1st!

My boyfriend needs a costume for Eurovision karaoke+photoshoot at a con this weekend. Do any of these random jackets from goodwill remind you of any particular Eurovision acts? We can do some basic accessorizing to make a look but neither of us is very crafty and we're running out of time/costuming budget. There's not really a counterpart to what I'm wearing, so any ideas are greatly appreciated!

Edit: bah, excuse the typo in the title

https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/musica/2026/08/31/maneskin-sanremo

Translation

In 2021, Damiano David, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, and Ethan Torchio triumphed with the song "Zitti e buoni" on the stage of the Ariston Theater, also conquering the top step of the podium at the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. In an exclusive interview with TV Sorrisi e Canzoni , Stefano De Martino announced the return of Måneskin . Damiano David, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, and Ethan Torchio will reunite on stage at the 2027 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, scheduled for February 16-20. Details of the group's reunion are being kept strictly confidential.

Stefano De Martino has revealed that Måneskin will be among the guests at the 77th edition of the singing competition. During an interview with TV Sorrisi e Canzoni , the host and Artistic Director announced the reunion of Damiano David , Victoria De Angelis , Thomas Raggi , and Ethan Torchio . The group has not yet released an official statement on their Instagram profile. Stefano De Martino has announced the presence of other international stars, but has kept the names strictly confidential.

After participating in X Factor 11, Måneskin launched a highly successful career. In 2021, the group triumphed with the song "Zitti e buoni" on the stage of the Ariston Theater, also taking first place at the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest; the song's official music video has more than 230,000,000 views on YouTube.

Eurovision episode of a british history podcast with some interesting stuff about the EBU and its predecessor the IBU, voting shenanigans from the 50s and 60s, intersections with political events, and its originally planned name instead of Eurovision.

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/after-eurovision-danny-estrin-was-told-he-had-terminal-cancer-he-s-now-back-in-the-driver-s-seat-20260826-p60rop.html

The biggest update on Danny's diagnosis since the initial news, glad to see him doing everything he loves in spite of it

Hello everyone! We are back again, this time with a Philippine national selection!

Streaming Links

YouTube (the official Eurovision channel)

Viewers in the Philippines will be able to watch the show via broadcaster ABS-CBN, as well as ALLTV2, and Kapamilya Channel. If you’d like to tune in from anywhere else in the world, you can stream the full show live via the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel. The show is expected to run for approximately two hours.

The New Frontier Theatre in Manila is the venue. Our hosts for tonight are Vice Ganda and Alexa Ilacad.

Format

The results will be decided through a combination of a professional jury (40%), Philippine public voting (40%) and Rest of the World public voting (20%).

At the moment of me writing this, no running order is available. The songs competing are:

• AJAA – ‘Make It Exist‘
• Carmelle – ‘Sobra-Sobra‘
• DNA – ‘Between Bituin‘
• Elha Nympha, Esang de Torres, Lance Reblando and Nar Cabico – ‘Cheri(e)‘
• Jason Dy and Sassa Dagdag – ‘Di Yan (Red Flag)‘
• JM dela Cerna and Marielle Montellano – ‘Mapadama‘
• Khimo – ‘Reason to Live‘
• Ryssi Avila – ‘Good For You‘
• Saga – ‘Broken Beyond Repair‘
• VVINK and Wrive Russu – ‘Round ‘n Round‘

Additional info

You can vote too! You'll be able to do so trough this website for free: the Eurovision Asia website!

Each user is given a total of eight free votes. But, we want you to share the love around! All users must distribute their votes across a minimum of three songs. And if you want to vote even more times, you can purchase ten extra votes. But that’s your maximum!

The voting window will be opened during the broadcast, listen out for the announcement by the host Vice Ganda.

Sources used to compile the information in this post are: eurovision.com.

Enjoy!~

This is based off of what percentage of votes each country got e.g. if there were 50,000 votes total and one song got 30,000 votes then that song would have a share of 60%

I've never really paid much attention to pre-2016 Eurovision, so I figured I'd fix that by binging the 2012-15 contests on YouTube.

Anyone have any suggestions about fun stuff to keep an eye out for while watching those years for the first time? As in things that were different about that ESC era or that stood out as particularly funny, cool, or quirky about each year?

I know how to find the actual points but I wanna see all of the 11th - 15th places from each jury and Televote as I wanna see if the results change based on ranking as opposed to points, like the 2013 voting system. Can anyone help? would be much appreciated

For fun, I wanted to imagine what this year's Eurovision final standings would look like if, in addition to points 1-8, 10, and 12, it also included the missing points 9 and 11. Points would then be awarded to all countries ranked 1-12 in the jury or televoting rankings.

First semi-final: no changes in terms of the finalists.

Second semi-final: Instead of Cyprus, Switzerland advances to the final (there is no curse about it getting through both the separate jury and televoting, but not the overall ranking).

Since Switzerland would ultimately advance to the final, I wondered how the jury and televoting would have rated it in the final. Here, I had to enlist the help of AI to analyze the overall voting statistics at this year's Eurovision. The evaluation of just the countries that voted in the second semi-final wasn't enough, as it's unclear how the jury and viewers would have actually voted in the final if those missing +9 and +11 points had been used in the voting system this year. Therefore, the final final top result is subjective, but entirely possible at the competition itself. For 11th and 12th place (sometimes 13th place was also used), data was taken from the official Eurovision website, which details the full jury/televoting rankings for each country.

I know that in years 2013-2017 method used for calculating jury results for a country was basically sum of places from every juror top 25/26/27 and country with lowest sum got 12 points etc. But what if two (or more) countries got the same sum of places? What was the tie breaking method? Naturally, country with single higher place in one juror’s top would’ve won the tie (for example two countries got sum of 35, but for one country it would be 10+10+5 and for another 11+10+4, so country with 4 place as the highest jury rank would win). But recently I looked up detailed results 2016 contest on eurovision.tv and for example I checked UK jury votes:
Croatia got 10th place and Belgium 11th. They both had sum of 54.
Here are places of Croatia:
Juror A 5th
Juror B 21st
Juror C 10th
Juror D 6th
Juror E 12th

Here are places of Belgium:
Juror A 10
Juror B 14
Juror C 20
Juror D 7
Juror E 3

The highet rank for Belgium was 3rd and for Croatia 5th yet Croatia won this tie and I don’t know why. That’s just one of many examples of weirdly broken tie. There was also Sweden 11th and Ukraine 12th in Albanian jury voting.

Can someone explain it to me? I would be very grateful.