Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has announced, via ESCToday, that they will have a national selection show to choose their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. RTP will use the Festival da Canção format to choose their performer and song; Ten songs will compete in the semi-final on March 8, and after a public televote, the top five …

The Portuguese broadcaster RTP confirmed that Portugal will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 after taking a break last year due to financial reasons. There are no news whether the entry will be selected via a National Final or if it’s going to be an internal selection. The Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest Jon Ola Sand …

    During the Eurovision Concert in Portugal, there were many hints at Portugal returning to the contest. This pleases many fans, Portuguese and other.

For the first time ever, EUROVISION LIVE CONCERT will be held in Portugal. For three days, several artists associated with Eurovision or the National Final show Festival da Canção. The show will take place from September 5th to 7th in the city of Setubal. The event will beging with a concert called “Portual – O Pais do Fado) which is …

Portugal are the latest organisation to announce their votes with their OGAE. The votes are as follows: Italy 12 pts Denmark 10 pts Netherlands 8 pts Norway 7 pts San Marino 6 pts Russia 5 pts Israel 4 pts Germany 3 pts United Kingdom 2 pts Georgia 1 pt Check out Portugal’s favourite here. [vsw id=”X2C-ePvHfAs” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”yes”]   This awards Italy their first 12 points …

According to an internal EBU source, the Portuguese broadcaster has still got the chance to negotiate their participation in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. This can be made by reducing the Portuguese channel’s yearly budget in order to reduce RTP’s financial burden. The same source has also advanced that until now no official withdrawals have been announced Countries are still …