{"id":356280,"date":"2026-03-31T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356280\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:28:08","slug":"eurovision-launching-asia-edition-grand-final-to-take-place-in-bangkok-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356280\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision launching Asia edition, grand final to take place in Bangkok in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The iconic Eurovision Song Contest is expanding beyond Europe, with organisers announcing that an Asian edition of the competition will debut in 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The grand final of the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov 14, 2026 as the host city of the competition.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to organisers, the event will feature national selection shows across participating countries in the lead-up to the final, where representatives will perform live and showcase the diversity of Asia\u2019s music.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So far, broadcasters from 10 countries across Asia have confirmed their participation. They are Bangladesh\u2019s NTV, Bhutan\u2019s Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS), Cambodia\u2019s TV5 Cambodia, Laos\u2019 Vientiane Capital Television (VTE9), Malaysia\u2019s Media Prima (TV3), Nepal\u2019s Himalaya TV, the Philippines\u2019 ABS-CBN, South Korea\u2019s ENA (SK Telecom\/KT Group), Thailand\u2019s Channel 3 and Vietnam\u2019s Vietnam Television (VTV3).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More countries are expected to join in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The competition is being organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Voxovation, in partnership with S2O Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic Eurovision Song Contest is expanding beyond Europe, with organisers announcing that an Asian edition of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-356280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}