Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Name: Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Genre: Reality, Talk, Family, Comedy
Cast: Destiny, Gaia Cauchi, Keane Cutajar

United by Music

TV series
2003–present
24 seasons
Eurovision
Reality
Talk
Family

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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong, is a song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003 and is open exclusively to broadcasters that are members of the EBU. It is held in a different European city each year, however the same city can host the contest more than once.

About the show

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often known simply as Junior Eurovision, is an international children's song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 2003. Each participating broadcaster submits an original song representing its country, to be performed by children of its choice aged 9 to 14, lasting three minutes at most, and broadcast live to all of them via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, and then casts votes for the participating countries' songs to determine a winner. It is a spin-off of the Eurovision Song Contest with which it has many similarities.

Since 2017, viewers worldwide can vote for their favourite entries through online voting, and a national jury assembled by each participating broadcaster also vote for their favourites. The overall winner of the contest is the entry that receives the most points after the scores from every country have been collected and totalled. The main differences with the Eurovision Song Contest are that in the junior version, the song must be predominantly in the language of the country it represents, and viewers can vote for their own country. The most recent winning song is "Boo!" performed by Naré representing Armenia, who won the 2026 contest in Ta’Qali, Malta.

In addition to the participating countries, the contest has also been broadcast in Finland in 2003 and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004 and from 2006 to 2011, Andorra in 2006, Iceland in 2021 and Luxembourg in 2024, although these countries have not yet taken part in the contest. Since 2006, the contest has been streamed live on the Internet through the official website of the contest. Australia was invited to participate in the 2015 contest, while Kazakhstan was invited in the 2018 contest, making it the only major Eurovision event to feature multiple EBU associate member broadcasters.

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