We have our very first act for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest! Tamara Grujevska will represent North Macedonia in Nice on November 26. The 12-year old singer has been selected after auditions were held to choose the Macedonian representative for next JESC, as MRT announced earlier today in a blog post. Tamara was born on December 2nd 2010 in …
North Macedonia’s public broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) announced today that they will participate at Junior Eurovision 2023 in Nice, France on November 26, 2023. Though North Macedonia opted against participation at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, citing financial constraints, the broadcaster opted to continue at the junior version both last year and this year. In a statement last, …
The OGAE Poll 2023 continues day by day and the latest voters are OGAE North Macedonia and OGAE The Netherlands. The Dutch 12 points go to Finland and the Macedonian 12 points go to Italy, marking the first the country receives the top score in this year’s poll. Less than a month ago, the OGAE Poll 2023 began and as …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. It’s 4 days to go until Junior Eurovision 2022, and we are counting down the 16 nations who are participating in Yerevan, Armenia on Sunday, December 11, 2022. Every day …
Following the reveal of the United Kingdom’s Junior Eurovision entry this morning, North Macedonia’s MRT has released their 2022 entry “Životot E Pred Mene” / “My Life Ahead of Me”. Additionally, they revealed that another artist will be featured on the JESC track in Yerevan. Lara and Irina were selected by the broadcaster following an open audition phase at MRT …
Yesterday news broke that the Balkan country Montenegro confirmed its withdrawal from Eurovision for 2023, and now additional countries have followed suit. MRT announces withdrawal, intent to return Signs have been pointing towards a withdraw from North Macedonia since their 2022-2023 budget was revealed to include JESC expenses, but none alloted for Eurovision. The Head of Delegation put up a …
We finally have it, the EBU has finally revealed the full list of participants for the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which is set to be held on the 11th of December 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. The Participants For a long time, the question was, who and who won’t participate, in the upcoming contest. Well, now we have the answer, …
Trouble may be brewing in the Balkans. As first pointed out on Twitter by @ESCdiscord, Macedonian broadcaster MRT’s newly released budget proposal for 2023 does not include any funds set aside for participation in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. It does, however, budget for a participation in next year’s Junior Eurovision. This is in contrast to the broadcaster’s 2022 budget …
Today marks the final day for any broadcaster with an active membership in the European Broadcasting Union to apply for participation in Eurovision 2023. After this, no additional broadcaster will be able to participate in the contest that did not originally apply – but broadcasters who submitted an application can still withdraw prior to October 11th without financial penalty. Any …
On June 8th MRT’s Programming Council heard Head of Delegation (HoD) Meri Popova’s proposal to improve North Macedonia’s image, results, and preparations for future contests. The report given by Popova was thoroughly detailed, addressing a number of issues through well reasoned solutions. The requests from HoD Meri Popova In her report, Popova outlined that preparations for Eurovision need to begin …
