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Posted by Amanda Kendle Dec 20, 2006 |
You might recall that at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, participants from Eastern Europe performed well. Next year, the 2007 contest will feature the Czech Republic for the first time.
In November, Czech Television announced that they would organize a national contest to choose the first Czech entrant ever for Eurovision. Ten Czech groups and singers who are currently in the charts will play off against each other for the chance to travel to Helsinki in May 2007 to compete against the rest of Europe. Just like in the finals, voting for the winners will be by popular vote, and will be carried out by SMS.
And the Czechs are a little confident of performing well in Finland - they say that the trend is for countries to be popular in their first year in the contest, so keep an eye out for the Czech contestant at Eurovision 2007.