Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-01-22): Eurovision 2025 National Final Season - Malta ESC 2025, Spain's Benidorm Fest 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 also broadcast on SWITCH Radio Europe in the United Kingdom live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Semi Final 1 - Introducing the entries 
• The Benidorm Fest 2025 with Javier Leal
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 - The National Final Season with Marcus Keppel-Palmer
• 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 and Marcus Keppel-Palmer continues the series.

 

The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Malta Eurovision Song Contest is the National Final to select that song that will be representing the country at the Eurovision Song Contetest 2025 in Basel in May. The show will be hosted by Malta's pbs and takes place on Tuesday, 04 Feb 2025 for Semi Final 1, Thu 06 Feb 2025 for Semi Final 2 and the Grand Final will be held on Sat 08 Feb 2025 in the MFCC (Malta Fairs and Convention Centre).  This week Radio International will showcase the songs of Semi Final 1 of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Semi Final 2 will be broadcast on next week's edition of Radio International.

 

 
The Bendorm Fest 2025 - Spain's National Final to Eurovision 2025

The Benidorm Fest 2025 - Spain's National Final to Eurovision 2025: In 2024, Nebulossa won the Benidorm Fest 2024 with the song "Zorra" and with that represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The 2025 edition of the Benidorm Fest has 16 songs in the competition distributed on two Semi Finals and a Grand Final to be held on 28 Jan 2025 for Semi Final 1, 30 Jan 2025 for Semi Final 2 and the Grand Final on 01 Feb 2025. The venue is the Palau Municipal d'Esports. Radio International this week will showcase the 16 competing songs of the Benidorm Fest 2025 with Javier Leal who will give us his prediction of what he thinks is the winning song and Spain's entry to Eurovision 2025. 

 

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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