Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-01-29): Eurovision 2025 National Final Season - Belgium and Greece 2025, , News, Birthday File and Cover Spot and more

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET on the Eurovision Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Ethnikós Telikós 2025 - The Greek National Final to Eurovision 2025 preview
• Eurosong 2025 - The Belgian National Final 2025 preview
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 - The National Final Season with Dermot Manning
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• Eurovision 2025 National Final Updates with Alain Forrotti 
• Eurovision Vault with Michael Goodrich - not this week
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
• Your music requests

The Eurovision Spotlight - The National Final Season: With the beginning of a New Year is also the start of the National Final Season for the Eurovision Song Contest. Montenegro returns to the contest in 2025 and had already selected their entry in November 2024. 36 countries are taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 which will be taking place on 13 and 15 May 2024 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Final on 17 May 2025. Radio International will be taking a look at the national finals and showcase the highlights every week in the Eurovision Spotlight as Dermot Manning continues the series.

 

 

GREECE - Ethnikós Telikós 2025:  The Greek participating broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) will organise the national final Ethnikós Telikós 2025 in order to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition will take place on 30 January 2025 at the Christmas Theater in Galatsi hosted by Sakis Rouvas (Greece 2004 and 2009 and host of Eurovision 2006 in Athens) and Eurovision Winner 2005 Helena Paparizou who was also part of the Greek entry in 2001 in Antique. 12 artists are competing with 12 songs which Radio International will introduce the the fans on the show this week. 

 

 

BELGIUM - Eurosong 2025: The Belgian participating broadcaster, Flemish Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), will organise the national final Eurosong 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest. The competition consists of two pre-recorded showcase shows that were broadcast on 18 and 25 Jan 2025, followed by a live Grand Final to be broadcast on 01 Feb 2025 where the winning song and artist will be selected to represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel. Radio International is please to introduce the songs to the fans on the show this week.

 

Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar whereas Alain Forrotti updates you where you can watch the Eurovision National Finals for 2025, and and and....

 

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