This year, the Swiss broadcaster, SRG SSR idée suisse, has announced many changes in their selection process. For the first time, it'll feature a pre-selection held on the internet.

Svante Stockselius (54), Executive Supervisor of the Junior- and Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of the EBU since 2003, has decided to resign from his position at the end of 2010. The upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be the 26th and last Eurovision event under his supervision.

Another contest has passed, and for the Reference Group that means it is time to look back. The governing body of the Eurovision Song Contest evaluated Oslo 2010 with Norwegian broadcaster NRK and discussed with German broadcaster NDR the preparations for next year's event.

While Minsk and Minsk Arena are preparing to host the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, 11 young talents are getting ready to win the local national selection. 

This time the Swedish designer Ulf Mårtensson brought the color stage design of the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest to Minsk. Despite the fact it looks in a new way, there are no major changes in the project. 

There are only six wonderful candidates, who have all chances to become the hosts of the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Minsk! Host broadcaster, BTRC has held the second casting for the position which brought together the best of the best. 

The organisers of this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Belteleradiocompany (BTRC), have formed a unique partnership with UNICEF for the 2010 edition of the biggest annual children’s music event in Europe.

Four German cities are officially in the running to become the host of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. That is the conclusion after a bid term, which ended yesterday. Next year's running of Europe's favourite TV-show shall take place in either Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf or Hannover (in random order). Host broadcaster NDR and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will make a decision about which city will host the event within weeks.

NTU, the Ukrainian broadcaster and the Host Broadcaster of last year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest, has decided to start early this year for the upcoming edition of Europe's favourite TV-show. 

Dolph Lundgren, the world-famous Hollywood actor, talked about his fight with stereotypes and explained how the 2010 edition of the Swedish national selection for Europe's favourite TV-show changed it all.

The 2010 Eurovision Song Contest turned into an unforgettable event for winner Lena Meyer-Landrut. And she felt so much at home in the warm atmosphere that she decided to come back in 2011. Not for winning again, just for the sheer fun of it.

The winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, the Finnish hard-rock monster-band Lordi, have released a new.. iPhone game! 

More then a hundred young people have expressed their desire to become the hosts of the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest. That's the number of applications sent to the Host Broadcaster, BTRC.

The day has come, Lena, the winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, has overthrown the 1974 winner, the music icon ABBA, in popularity. At least on Facebook, the latest numbers show.

Lena, the reigning queen of the Eurovision Song Contest, has released one more single from her debut album, My Cassette Player. 

First young stars for the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest have already been chosen! Russia, Latvia and Ukraine have picked their representatives for Minsk, Belarus.

The Turkish band who finished second at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, maNga, has continued their success story after Oslo. Now they've started taking over Europe once again, this time city by city.

Jessy Matador, the energetic French participant at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, has continued his success all over Europe, now releasing a new single.

Young talents between 10 and 15 from fourteen nations will gather at the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, to be held on the 20th of November in Minsk, Belarus. It's the eight time the younger brother of the Eurovision Song Contest shall take place. Moldova is represented for the first time, Lithuanian broadcaster LRT, Latvian broadcaster LTV and Swedish broadcaster SVT return. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced that today.

Today the Austrian national broadcaster, ORF, revealed some of its plans for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest season. They might become one of the first ones to pick they entry for the 56th edition of Europe's favourite TV-show.

JuniorEurovision.tv can now officially reveal the stage for this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest, presented by the stage designer Ulf Mårtensson himself!

As always suspected, the Eurovision Song Contest brings the Host Country and Host City a lot of promotion. The local tourist boards counted the numbers and are very pleased with what they found.

BTRC, the Host Broadcaster of the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, has chosen 11 "faces of the contest". As a part of promotion of the show, BTRC conducted a special casting and photos of winners will soon appear on billboards and posters on the streets of different cities in Belarus.

Cypriot broadcaster, CyBC has released the list of finalists of the talent contest Performance. As previously reported, the winner in the vocal category will represent the tiny country at next year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Alexander Rybak, the winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, called out for fans to join his Facebook page to cross the 100,000 fans line. Inspired by that, Eurovision.tv took some time to investigate, who of the former participants of Europe's favourite TV-show have the largest communities behind them in the most popular social medium in the world.

Michael von der Heide's show for Switzerland was most likely to most extravagant in Oslo. The song, Il Pleut de L'Or was emphasised by the golden stage, the costumes and of course, the choreography. 

The 3Js will represent the Netherlands in Germany, next year. The Netherlands is the second nation to reveal their 2011 Eurovision Song Contest participant. After Sieneke's defeat in the second Semi-Final in Oslo, just weeks ago, broadcaster TROS worked hard to quickly get their act together for next year.

Aisha, representing Latvia, asked a series of serious questions in her song What For?. It's unclear whether she got all the answers but she did make Europe think. 

Slovenia decided to try something new this time and their representative, Ansambel Žlindra & Kalamari, joined rock and folk music into one song. That's why their song is also called, smartly enough, Narodnozabavni Rock. 

Kristina Pelakova did her best on stage in Oslo, at the 55th Eurovision Song Contest. She sung a song written by a very successful lyricist and a composer, titled Horehronie and finished 16th in the first Semi-Final.

One of the most successful Bulgarian artists, Miro, was chosen for Europe's favourite TV-show this year to represent his country. His surprised with a smashing show but was left out from the Final with the entry Angel Si Ti.

Gjoko Taneski is an established artist in FYR Macedonia and so it seemed logical he'd take up on the off to represent his country at Europe's favourite TV-show. He finished 15th in the first Semi-Final with his song Jas Ja Imam Silata.

Sieneke gave her all on the stage of the 55th Eurovision Song Contest, representing the Netherlands. Unfortunately, the young singer didn't qualify for the Final with her Ik Ben Verliefd (Sha-la-lie), written by the father of the Smurf song. 

The new comet in Estonian music world, Malcolm Lincoln, emerged from winning the Estonian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Despite not qualifying for the Final in Oslo, he's enjoyed a success afterwards, signing a new record deal and releasing a debut album.

Feminnem's got their second attempt at Europe's favourite TV-show this year, but now they represented Croatia. Their Lako Je Sve finished 13th in the second Semi-Final.

An estimated 69 million viewers watched the Final of the Eurovision Song Contest broadcast on 29 May from Oslo. 20.3 million people watched the first Semi-final on Tuesday the 25th of May, 18.9 million viewers tuned in on Thursday the 27th of May for the second Semi-Final. The Semi-Final ratings were similar to those recorded in 2008. The cumulative amount of viewers was 108.2 million.

Marcin Mrozinski took the prestigious job of representing Poland at the 55th Eurovision Song Contest with his song Legenda, following two ballads by female vocalists. His ethnic song finished 13th in the first Semi-Final.

Just weeks ago, Germany won the Eurovision Song Contest thanks to Lena's efforts with her song Satellite. This week, another victory is within reach, as the German football team is playing the FIFA World Cup semi-final against Spain tonight. German media are convinced that Die Mannschaft will not only qualify for Sunday's final, but also win it! Tonight's winning team will have to compete against the Netherlands, which already qualified after winning from Uruguay last night.

InCulto were no doubt the funkiest act at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. They enjoyed being on stage, it did show. Europe voted them twelfth in the second Semi-Final in Oslo with their Eastern European Funk. 

Thea Garret is the new talent from Malta, who showed once again where the home of the ballade queens is. After Chiara, she was a worthy follower, finishing twelfth in the first Semi-Final with her My Dream.