Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010: The eighth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place Saturday, 20 November 2010 from Minsk, Belarus where young artists from 14 participating countries will be competing for the trophy of the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Radio International will bring you a look ahead of the songs but also reflect a bit of the previous winners of the competition. And do not forget that www.oikotimes.com is live on location to bring you coverage live from Minsk. We will be linking up with Minsk during the show to get the latest news from there. You can watch the Junior Eurovision Song Contest at 2015 hours CET on 20 November 2010 - here.

 

Melodifestivalen Interview with Linda Bengzting: (Sweden):  The team of Radio International met Linda Bengtzing in Stockholm at a recent event. Eric, Lilian and JP interviewed the energetic singer who particpated three times at Sweden's Melodifestivalen to win the ticket to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2005 "Alla flickor" reached joint 9th. Linda returned to the Melodifestivalen in 2006 with the song "Jag ljuger så bra" that reached Number 7. Linda's third attempt to win Melodifestivalen was in 2008 when her entry "Hur svårt kan det " which came 5th in the Final. As for 2011 Melodifestivalen Linda will be competing with the song "E de fel på mig". Experience her during the interview during the show. 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2011 - Start of HEAT 10:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011 announcing the start of HEAT 10 for the international juries to vote on the Face Book Page of the contest. On the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, you vote for your 10 favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest amongst the tenth hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Last week Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of HEAT 9 and now HEAT 10 has started and is open to be voted on until Sunday evening.  Next week Radio International and Andy from the Euro Friends Song Contest will reveal the ten qualifiers of Heat 10 during the show. You can join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.   

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: Germany - Ralph Siegel. In view of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Germany, Radio International's four regular Eurovision Experts will be joining us in turn week by week to review all the German entries of the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 to 2010. However, this week  sees a slight change in this slot as Marcus Keppel Palmer takes a special look at the successes of Mr. Eurovision himself - Ralph Siegel in the German national finals. Next week Ross Bennett is back to continue with the review of the German entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 - 1989.

 

Eurovision Song Contest News:  Luke Fisher joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly edition of Radio International. Also check out the occasational appearance of Zoran Kovacic from Serbia on Radio International bringing us some Eurovision News in his style.

In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Quiz:  Scratch your heads and bite your nails at  our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send your answers via the website's CONTACTs form or via the msn-chat This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it   As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of last week's Quiz: Bert Ouwerkerk from the Netherlands. Congratulations yet again!

   

Home Composed Song Contest 2010: Home Composed Song Contest 2010: Radio International continues the support of this songwriters competition also in 2010. Austria virtually is hosting this contest this year and visitors to the website of the OGAE Austria could cast their vote until 31 October 2010 to their favourite songs. Now the voting is over and the calculation starts. In the first week of December 2011 the results will be published by OGAE Austria and Radio International will be broadcasting a special on the results. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and let us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual convention.

 

Upcoming Events: 

22 Jan - OGAE Germany Convention, Munic, Germany

Eurovision Song Contest Interviews the Radio International Team has done with the Eurovision performers can be heard by visiting our Eurovision section of this website or check out the Radio International goes.... part of the website. The 2010 Eurovision Interviews have not yet been displayed there. You can find them as part of the weekly editions of Radio International. You can go through the Show Archive to find interviews by using search. 

 

Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this week these requests will be added to the play list for the future shows. 

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