Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008
"Fun In The Sun"
	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	17
Debuting countries	Azerbaijan; Bosnia-Herzegovina
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	Portugal; Sweden;
	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, Serbia, Sweden and Ukraine.^[1]^[2]^[3] The 2009 contest will be hosted in Ukraine.^[4]

The European Broadcasting Union had only promised that the contest would continue until 2007, and had not made any definite intent to organise the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 known; despite this, it chose Cyprus as host country.^[5]

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

Confirmed participants

According to Junior Eurovision regulations, the maximum number of participating countries is set to 18.^[6] However there may well be more in this years Junior Eurovision as the EBU announced that there will be a record breaking number of participants this year.^[7] Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina will make their debut while Portugal and Sweden have announced their withdrawal.

The following countries have confirmed their participation:

Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	National Selection	Selection Date
Armenia^[8]	Armenian					11 July 2008
Azerbaijan^[9]	Azeri
Belarus					Song for Eurovision^[10]	September 2008
Belgium^[11]	Dutch				Junior Eurosong	27 September 2008
Bosnia and Herzegovina^[12]
Bulgaria^[13]	Bulgarian
Cyprus^[14]						28 June 2008^[15]
FYR Macedonia^[16]	Macedonian
Georgia^[17]	Georgian					September 2008
Greece^[18]	Greek
Lithuania^[19]	Lithuanian				Vaikų Eurovizija	October 2008
Malta^[20]	English				Junior Song For Europe	September 2008
Netherlands^[21]	Dutch				Junior Songfestival	4 October 2008
Romania^[22]	Romanian	Mădălina Lefter & Andrada Popa	"Salvaţi planeta"	Save the planet	Selecţia Naţională	1 June 2008
Russia^[23]	Russian	Mihail Puntov	"Spit angel"	Angel is sleeping		1 June 2008
Serbia^[24]	Serbian
Ukraine^[25]	Ukranian					20 September 2008^[26]

Others

Israel - Israel had considered making a debut, but then decided not to. The broadcaster IBA explained that due to budget difficulties they are not in a position to participate. IBA hopes to enter the 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine.^[27]
Poland - TVP had considered participation but decided that they would not take part this year but they are still not sure, Poland hopes to enter the 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine.^[28]
United Kingdom - The Welsh broadcaster S4C have expressed an interest in taking part this year.^[29]

Withdrawals

Sweden - TV4 has different broadcasting plans for the time of the competition.^[30]
Portugal - RTP was not satisfied with their results in 2006 & 2007 they will not participate but hope to participate in 2009.^[31]

References

[1] Etomite »

[2] 'Cyprus to host JESC 2008'

[3] 'Vršac konkurisao'

[4] Details on Junior Eurovision 2009

[5] ttp://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=32660&cat_id=1

[6] JESC 2007 The Netherlands, Rotterdam Äåòñêîå Åâðîâèäåíèå 2007 Íèäåðëàíäû, Ðîòòåðäàì

[7] source for possible record JESC countries-->

[8] Details on Armenian selection

[9] Детское Евровидение 2008 Кипр Новости Junior Eurovision 2008 Cyprus News

[10] [1]

[11] Details on Belgian selection

[12] Confirmation on Bosnia & Herzegovina entry

[13] Details on Bulgarian selection

[14] Details on Cyprus' selection

[15] Date for the Cypriot national final

[16] Source on FYR Macedonia entry

[17] Source for Georgia participation

[18] Details on Greece selection

[19] Source for Lithuania participation

[20] Source for Malta participation

[21] Details on Dutch selection

[22] Details on Romania's selection

[23] Details on Russian selection (in Russian)

[24] Source for Serbia participation

[25] Source for Ukraine participation

[26] Date for the Ukrainian national final

[27] [2]

[28] Details on Poland non participation

[29] Source for possible United Kingdom participation

[30] Details on Swedish withdrawal

[31] Details on Portugal withdrawal

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