Sveriges Television – SVT – Swedish national broadcaster has just announced the hosts of allocation draw. Jovan Radomir and Alexandra Pascalidou will host us through the semi-final allocation draw for the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm later this year. The semi-final allocation draw will take place this Monday, 25th of January at 11:15 CET
Jovan has been spokesperson for Sweden in 2004 and 2006 and has written the lyrics for English version of winning song in 2007 ‘ Molitva‘. Also Jovan was the person that brought Måns Zelmerlöw to Belgrade as a guest on TV show XFactorAdria just a week before he won at Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.
Alexandra co-hosted a semi-final of Melodifestivalen in 2005.
Christer Björkman has announced in an interview that on this day, slogan and logo for this year‘s contest will be revealed as well.
The 37 countries have been allocated into 6 pots.
Pot 1
- Albania
- F.Y.R. Macedonia
- Montenegro
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Serbia
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
Pot 2
- Denmark
- Finland
- Norway
- Iceland
- Estonia
- Latvia
Pot 3
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine
Pot 4
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Greece
- Australia
- The Netherlands
- Bulgaria
Pot 5
- Czech Republic
- Lithuania
- Ireland
- Malta
- Poland
- San Marino
Pot 6
- Austria
- Hungary
- Israel (pre-assigned to the second Semi-Final)
- Moldova
- Romania
- Switzerland
