JESC 2024

[Marcos C]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will be taking place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 18:00 CET.

The theme of this year's contest is "Let's Bloom."

The following 17 countries have confirmed that they are participating in JESC 2024.

Albania
Armenia
Cyprus
Estonia
France
Georgia
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Malta
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Poland
Portugal
San Marino
Spain
Ukraine


You can find information about the 17 entries by clicking this line.


The following participant of JESC 2023 is not returning this year.

United Kingdom

 

[Marcos C]

Georgian Public Broadcaster is now accepting applications for the seventh season of Ranina, the children's national contest that has been traditionally used to select Georgia's representative in JESC.

🇬🇪 Georgia: Ranina 2024 Applications Open - Eurovoix

GPB the Georgian broadcaster has opened the application process for Ranina, which has traditionally been used as the Georgian Junior Eurovision selection.

eurovoix.com

 

[AlekS]

The head of the delegation confirmed that we are in.

https://youtu.be/IV1vph3v7Uo?t=944

 

[elanyvx]

Simone Grande won this night the second edition of The Voice Kids Italy, he will represent the Italy at the JESC 2024

 

[Looren]

Spain will host Junior Eurovision 2024

The EBU and RTVE are thrilled to announce that the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Spain later this year.

eurovision.tv

 

[shameless]

Although I am sure France would've done another excellent job in hosting, I am glad that Spain finally gets their chance to stage an ESC-event in the current era. It's great how all the classic-western nation have seen some revival in their enthusiasm for (J)ESC lately. Who would've thought so 15 years ago? Especially the JESC I expected not to last until the 10th edition when it was dominated by the Eastern Block only. Strange to think that now the tides have completely turned and nations like France, Spain and UK are considered to be the power houses of the contest when they didn't even participate for most of the times in between.

 

[Hy Dranger]

Well Armenia and Georgia remain a big force in JESC too, I think Georgia only flunked last year because of the wooden school-play like presentation of the song, they should have borrowed Armenia's choreographer! I really thought the Armenian Yan Girls would win last year but coming 6th in the televote dragged them down to 3rd place but they were sill a country mile ahead of the other 13 including the UK.

But certainly the standard has been high across the board in the last couple of years and I look forward to what this year will bring, I didn't rate the UK entry last year TBH, the 2022 song from Freya Skye was much better but top 5 two years in a row shows we've finally shown we can deliver a song in JESC as good as anything we've had in ESC.

 

[elpanrdas]

It's so good that many broadcasters have recently begun to understand the importance of JESC.
Also, I'm guessing the host city will be revealed at the regular press conference during Eurovision week.
Personally, I really want Valencia as the host city (great transportation and still promises unique hosting)

 

[Hy Dranger]

It's so good that many broadcasters have recently begun to understand the importance of JESC.
Also, I'm guessing the host city will be revealed at the regular press conference during Eurovision week.
Personally, I really want Valencia as the host city (great transportation and still promises unique hosting)

I think the entries in JESC are every bit as good as ESC, in fact so far this year I've seen nothiing in ESC 2024 which measures up to the top half dozen entries in JESC 2023. It's a shame the UK didn't participate in JESC for many years but hopefully that's changed now.

As for venue, my ancestry is Jerez so . . . but there's no likelyhood of my attending so transportation links etc are kind of academic. OTOH for beautiful location shots for the "postcards" Galicia is lovely.

 

[AlekS]

Annabelle Ats will represent Estonia.

 

[AlekS]

 

[Youre2490]

So, how likely do you all think it is that Martin Österdahl will be gone by JESC 2024?

 

[Realest]

is in.
Hopefully the Juries are more fair to us than last Year.

 

[ESCConor]

Still awaiting confirmation of the UKs participation.

given how successful we have been since returning in 2022, its very likely we will participate again in Madrid.

 

[EDC0708]

Looks like Albania, Armenia, Portugal and UK (plus N. Macedonia who have budget approved for it) not confirmed yet, UK will announce via BBC Media Centre soon.

Eurowizja Junior 2024: nowe informacje o uczestnikach

Eurowizja Junior 2024 bez Serbii. Co nowego wiemy o stawce konkursu? Kto przygotowuje się do udziału? Kto z Polski?

eurowizja.org

In addition, Georgia removed reference to Madrid in an article about the Ranina winner.

 

[AlekS]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1804085199573016896

 

[EDC0708]

Sad BBC withdrew, but they have axed a lot of programmes lately due to financial issues. 2022 rated low in UK, just 700,000 viewers, I don't know if that improved in 2023, but may have been a factor, also CBBC itself may be coming to an end some time from next year.
In theory, ITV could return, or Channel 4 could debut, while S4C could return to representing Wales.

Update: S4C will not return as Wales.

 

[EDC0708]

Another theory I have seen on Reddit, do we know if JESC will be on in the afternoon or evening this year? If it is back in the evening, there would be two issues for the BBC:

1. CBBC stops broadcasting at 7pm, so no option to show it on that channel.
2. Strictly Come Dancing, one of the BBC's biggest shows, airs on Saturday nights at that time of year, they wouldn't want to move Strictly, or schedule another entertainment show against it.

 

[EDC0708]

So at the moment we have:

Taking part:
Estonia
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Malta
The Netherlands
North Macedonia
Poland
Spain (Host)
Ukraine

No News
Albania
Armenia
Georgia (Initially confirmed participation, but then removed all reference to it)
Portugal

Possible Return
Norway

Possible Debut
Iceland (Iceland has never participated in a Eurovision spin-off event before)

Likely Withdrawal
United Kingdom (Unless another broadcaster replaces BBC)

 

[HarryUK]

withdrawing is part of a major reshuffle within the BBC Eurovision team supposedly

This also falls in line with the rumours that Andrew Cartmell will be the next Executive Supervisor