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Ryan Tubridy hosted his first Eurosong last night. He talked to us about his thoughts on taking over the Late Late Show, Ireland's 2010 entry and the national final that chose it.
Niall Mooney and Jonas Gladnikoff won the Irish national final, Eurosong, for the second year in a row last night. We caught up with Niall at after the show to get his feelings on this year's entry and what they've learnt from last year.
Ireland hasn't reached the final of the Eurovision Song Contest the past two years. Tonight they decided that it will be up to Niamh Kavanagh to try to do the double after winning the contest for Ireland back in 1993. This time her song is called It's For You and is written by the team who also wrote last year's Irish entry.
The BBC has now revealed the six acts who will compete for the honour of representing the United Kingdom in Eurovision - Your Country Needs You on Friday 12th March
Alexa will participate tonight in the Romanian national selection with the song Baby. She is hoping to get the ticket to Oslo to represent Romania at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. Alexa speaks to EuroVisionary about her career and hopes for the future.
Tonight Croatia held the semi-final of its Dora contest. The event happened in the Crystal Hall in Opatija, a much used venue for the Dora. Of the sixteen songs, eight qualified for the final.
The quarter final of the German selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, Unser Star für Oslo, was held tonight. The previous rounds were shown on the Pro Sieben channel. Tonight's show and the final on 12 March 2010 will be shown on Das Erste channel. The semi final will be broadcast on Pro Sieben on 9 March 2010.
Eurosong 2010 will take place tonight at RTÉ studios in Donnybrook in Dublin. There are five songs that will fight it out to represent Ireland the the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo.
Tonight the second semi-final of Festival da Cançã, the Portugese national selection was held. A total of 12 participants competed for six spots in the final on Saturday.
This evening, Lithuania became the latest country to choose its entry for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. InCulto will take their East European Funk to Oslo.
The Turkish representative, the rock group MaNga, have revealed the names of the cities where they will visit for the promo tours. These promos will be performed up to 16th May, 2010.
During the presentation of the Turkish song, MaNga and TRT’s general manager, İbrahim Şahin, gave a press conference to introduce the new procedure of the contest and more about the song, We Could Be the Same.
Brother and sister, Fabrizio and Claudia Faniello from Malta were special guests at the Slovakian national final on 27 February 2010. Fabrizio was launching his new single and Claudia was invited to perform her recent Malta Eurosong.
Even if you don't have a national final you can still present your song to the entire world in a nicely set up TV show. That was what Turkey did when they today showed which song will be their entry for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. We knew the band in advance and now we also know the song; We Could Be The Same.
The Turkish group Manga who will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest is introducing their song in just a few hours. The show will be broadcasted on the internet giving everyone an oppertunity to hear the song at first moment. EuroVisionary will be present to report all about it to you.
Tonight the first semi-final of Festival da Cançã, the Portugese national selection was held. A total of 12 participants competed for six spots in the final on Saturday. Thursday yet another six participants will pass making a line-up of 12 in total with a chance to represent Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest.
After many weeks of speculation and rumour, the BBC has now confirmed one of the most badly kept secrets of the 2010 finals season. The United Kingdom will choose it’s singer on Friday March 12th.
The Russian broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, RTR, has announced 25 finalists. The winner of the 2008 contest, Dima Bilan, was anticipated to be among the 25 acts.
Next Saturday 13th March, Ukraine will choose their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo. More details of the selection have now been released. The collection of writers has a firm international flavour.
This evening Azerbaijan hosted its national final to decide who will represent them at the
Eurovision Song Contest this year in Oslo. Read our live update to find out how it happened that Safura will be singing for Azerbaijan in May.
The second semi final of Moldova Eurovision National final called "A song for Europe" has just ended. 15 songs competed in order to reach the final on Saturday. Seven of them went through along with the other seven songs that were selected last night in the first semifinal.
Miroslav Kostadinov with the simple artist name Miro will represent Bulgaria at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. That was decided already back in October. Tonight the TV viewers picked the song he will be singing in Oslo trying to bring the country back to the final they failed to reach last year.
On Saturday March 6, TVR 1 will present the National Selection Eurovision 2010, a live show that will chose the song that will represent Romania at Eurovision this year in Oslo.
Yesterday in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, the first semi final of Moldovan Eurovision selection called "O Melodie Pentru Europa" (A song for Europe) was held. Sevn songs qualified for the final on March 6th.
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