Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008
File:JESC logo 2008.png
Dates
Final	November 22 2008
Host
Venue	Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
Presenter(s)	TBA
Host broadcaster	CyBC
Website	junioreurovision.tv/event/lemesos-2008
Participants
Number of entries	TBA
Debuting countries	Bosnia Herzegovina
Returning countries	Norway, Poland
Non-returning countries	TBA
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song	TBD

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 is the sixth Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It will be held in the "Spyros Kyprianou" Athletic Centre in Limassol also known as the Palais des Sports. Cyprus won the right to host the Contest beating bids from Portugal, Sweden and Ukraine.

The European Broadcasting Union has only promised that the Contest will continue until 2007, but has not made any definite intent to organise the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 known; despite this, it chose Cyprus as host country.

The production team for the Junior Eurovision 2008 was decided by the EBU. Kleitos Kleitou (director of CyBC, and also director of the Cypriot Eurovision Song Contest entry in Helsinki in 2007) will be the director for the Cypriot National Final for the selection of the Cypriot Entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Rotterdam. Mr Kleitou will be also the director for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Despo Karpi will be the producer of the show and Mr Munro Forbes, collaborator of CyBC for 2 years, will be the executive producer. These titles have been approved by the EBU who has watched the works of the team from previous competitions in Cyprus and it agrees that they can undertake this project.

Participants

According to Junior Eurovision regulations, maximum number of participating countries is set to 18.

Poland

Polish broadcaster TVP will broadcast the contest live, despite its withdrawal in 2005. Polish broadcaster TVP will broadcast the final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest live on 22nd November 2008, Polish people may will voting.