Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-12-17): Heading into Christmas 2025, Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - And the Winner is..FRANCE, Birthday File, Coverspot,...

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 

• The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - We have a Winner
• Junior Eurovision 2025 Interview with  Sofia Nersesian (JESC 2025, Ukraine, Number 2)
• Junior Eurovision 2025 Interview with  Nela Mančeska (JESC 2025, North Macedonia, Number 7
• Junior Eurovision 2025 Interview with  Leonardo Giovannangeli (JESC 2025, Italy, Number 12)
• Junior Eurovision 2025 Interview with  Inês Gonçalves (JESC 2025, Portugal, Number 13)
• Step into a Eurovision Christmas - Eurovision Artists sing Christmas Songs 
• The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 National Final Season
• Eurovision Spotlight: Austria's History at the Eurovision Song Contest  with Chris Poppe (final in the current series)
• 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 
• National Final Update for Junior and Eurovision Song Contest with Alain Forotti 
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists 
• Your music requests 
  
  

 

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - We have a Winner: The 23rd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on Saturday 13 Dec 2025 from the Gymnastic Hall of the Olympic City in Tblisi in Georgia with young artists from 18 countries taking part. In the running order: Malta, Azerbaijan, Croatia, San Marino, Armenia, Ukraine, Ireland, The Netherlands, Poland, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Georgia, Cyprus, France and Albania. Returning countries were Azerbaijan, Croatia and Montenegro while Estonia and Germany took a break. The Hosts of the show were David Aladashvili and Liza Tsiklauri. The show started at 1700 hours CET. 

 

 

 

Lou Deleuze - Junior Eurovision 2025 Winner for France

 

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

to Lou Deleuze from France  

for winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 

with the song "Ce Monde" 

 with a total of 248 points

 

 

 

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Scoreboard

 

Interviews with four Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Little Artists:  The Radio International Rowing Reporter Alain Forrotti has traveled to Tiblisi, Georgia to meet some of the young stars and interview them. Meet the four young artists on the show this week. 

Sofia Nersesian (Ukraine, Number 2, "Motanka"), 
Nela Mančeska (North Macedonia, Number 7, "Miracle" ), 
Leonardo Giovannangeli (Italy, Number 12, "Rockstar")
Inês Gonçalves (Portugal, Number 13, "Para onde vai o amor?")

 

 

 

 

The Eurovision Spotlight - The history of Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest:  It is time for the traditional look at the next host country's Eurovision Song Contest entries. JJ won Eurovision 2025 and with that Austria will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in the Wiener Stadthalle on 12 and 14 May 2026 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Finale to take place on Saturday, 16 May 2026. Over the next weeks and before the National Final Season for 2026, Radio International's team members will be reviewing all the Eurovision entries from Austria. Chris Poppe will be continuing series of the Eurovision Spotlight looking at the history of Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest.

 

Eurovision News, New Song Releases, Birthday File, Coverspot, Eurovision Calendar:Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Javier stands in for Nick and 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 and Alain Forotti gives us already some updates of the National Finals regarding the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 and and....

 

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