Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Also known as JESC 2019, Junior Eurovision 2019

17th annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Key facts

Final: 24 November 2019
Venue: Gliwice Arena , Gliwice, Poland
Organiser: European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Executive supervisor: Jon Ola Sand
Host broadcaster: Telewizja Polska (TVP)
Directors: Marcin Migalski Tomasz Motyl
Executive producer: Leszek Ratajczak
Presenters: Ida Nowakowska Aleksander Sikora Roksana Węgiel
Countries that participated after not pa: Spain
Countries that did not participate after: Azerbaijan , Israel
Voting system: The professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8-1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3-5 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes.

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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 was the seventeenth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 24 November 2019 at the Gliwice Arena in Gliwice, Poland, and presented by Ida Nowakowska, Aleksander Sikora, and Roksana Węgiel. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP), who staged the event after winning the 2018 contest for Poland with the song "Anyone I Want to Be" by Roksana Węgiel. It was the first time that the contest was hosted in Poland, as well as the first Eurovision event to be held in the country since the Eurovision Young Dancers 2013.

Broadcasters from nineteen countries participated in the contest, with Spain taking part for the first time since 2006, while Azerbaijan and Israel did not return to the contest after having participated in 2018.