Young talents between 10 and 15 from fourteen nations will gather at the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, to be held on the 20th of November in Minsk, Belarus. It's the eight time the younger brother of the Eurovision Song Contest shall take place. Moldova is represented for the first time, Lithuanian broadcaster LRT, Latvian broadcaster LTV and Swedish broadcaster SVT return. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced that today.

Today the Austrian national broadcaster, ORF, revealed some of its plans for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest season. They might become one of the first ones to pick they entry for the 56th edition of Europe's favourite TV-show.

As always suspected, the Eurovision Song Contest brings the Host Country and Host City a lot of promotion. The local tourist boards counted the numbers and are very pleased with what they found.

Cypriot broadcaster, CyBC has released the list of finalists of the talent contest Performance. As previously reported, the winner in the vocal category will represent the tiny country at next year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Alexander Rybak, the winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, called out for fans to join his Facebook page to cross the 100,000 fans line. Inspired by that, Eurovision.tv took some time to investigate, who of the former participants of Europe's favourite TV-show have the largest communities behind them in the most popular social medium in the world.

Michael von der Heide's show for Switzerland was most likely to most extravagant in Oslo. The song, Il Pleut de L'Or was emphasised by the golden stage, the costumes and of course, the choreography. 

The 3Js will represent the Netherlands in Germany, next year. The Netherlands is the second nation to reveal their 2011 Eurovision Song Contest participant. After Sieneke's defeat in the second Semi-Final in Oslo, just weeks ago, broadcaster TROS worked hard to quickly get their act together for next year.

Aisha, representing Latvia, asked a series of serious questions in her song What For?. It's unclear whether she got all the answers but she did make Europe think. 

Slovenia decided to try something new this time and their representative, Ansambel Žlindra & Kalamari, joined rock and folk music into one song. That's why their song is also called, smartly enough, Narodnozabavni Rock. 

Kristina Pelakova did her best on stage in Oslo, at the 55th Eurovision Song Contest. She sung a song written by a very successful lyricist and a composer, titled Horehronie and finished 16th in the first Semi-Final.