Saturday Summary – This week’s Eurovision news headlines

Another seven days have passed, and more news have been announced, why not have a read below of the latest Eurovision headlines! LRT confirm changes for Eurovizijos Atranka 2020 The Lithuanian broadcaster has confirmed the changes that will take place for Eurovizijos Atranka 2020. https://escxtra.com/2019/09/27/lrt-confirm-changes-for-eurovizijos-atranka-2020/ More confirmations have been announced Ukraine and France have confirmed that they will be joining the party in Rotterdam, whilst Montenegro has provisionally confirmed their participation: https://escxtra.com/2019/09/22/ukraine-confirms-2020-participation/ https://escxtra.com/2019/09/25/france-2-confirms-eurovision-2020-participation/ https://escxtra.com/2019/09/25/montenegro-provisionally-says-yes-to-2020-participation/ Ireland opens up submissions for Eurovision 2020 RTÉ Entertainment, along with RTÉ 2FM have opened the submissions for interested songwriters and artists who would be interested in representing Ireland in Rotterdam. https://escxtra.com/2019/09/28/ireland-rte-announces-call-out-for-eurovision-song-contest-2020/ Fan-Favourite Aly Ryan has confirmed that she has submitted songs to Switzerland Unser Lied für Israel participant Aly Ryan has confirmed that she has submitted songs to Switzerland for Eurovision 2020. https://escxtra.com/2019/09/23/aly-ryan-submits-an-entry-for-switzerland-for-eurovision-2020/ OGAE Second Chance Contest winner revealed and OGAE Song Contest launched. OGAE Italy hosted the OGAE Second Chance Contest, with the results being revealed earlier this week. https://escxtra.com/2019/09/24/the-ogae-second-chance-contest-2019-has-been-revealed/ Earlier this week, OGAE UK has also launched the OGAE Song Contest 2019 https://escxtra.com/2019/09/28/ogae-song-contest-2019-entries-revealed/ Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 update Whilst we are getting closer to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, we have recently received more news about the upcoming competition. The final of Chwilio Am Seren took place, with Erin winning the ticket to represent Wales: https://escxtra.com/2019/09/24/erin-will-represent-wales-at-gliwice-silesia/ The Russian national final also took place with Tatyana Mezhentseva & Oorzhak Denberel winning the ticket to represent Russia: https://escxtra.com/2019/09/25/tatyana-mezhentseva-oorzhak-denberel-to-represent-russia-in-junior-eurovision-2019/ RTP have internally selected Joana Almeida to represent Portugal: https://escxtra.com/2019/09/26/joana-almeida-will-represent-portgual-in-gliwice-silesia/ Finally, the tickets for this year's contest will be on sale next month: https://escxtra.com/2019/09/27/junior-eurovision-2019-tickets-on-sale-1st-october/ Don’t forget our latest editorials where we look back at the 2003 and 2004 Junior Eurovision. We also had a new Eurovision Trivia and the usual round up of new music from your favourite Eurovision artists in our weekly New Music article. Make sure you also take a look at our homepage for all the other week’s news and articles. We’re early into the new Eurovision season but our eyes are firmly on what’s happening around Europe and the world. As always, we’re bringing you all the Eurovision news as it happens. Let us know your thoughts and any comments on the past week @ESCXTRA.