The grand final of the contest will take place in the Wiener Stadthalle in the Austrian capital Vienna on Saturday 16 May. <\/p>\n
TV presenter Victoria Swarovski and actor Michael Ostrowski will host inside the auditorium.<\/p>\n
The first semi-final on Tuesday 12 May will feature Croatia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Portugal, Moldova, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia, Israel, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, San Marino and Serbia.<\/p>\n
The second semi-final on Thursday 14 May will see performances from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Romania, Switzerland, Albania, Australia, Cyprus, Denmark, Latvia, Malta, Norway and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The top ten performers from each semi-final will join the five pre-qualified acts in the final. <\/p>\n
Austria, France, Germany, Italy and the UK still have to broadcast and vote in one of the semi-finals. Germany and Italy will perform and vote in the first, while Austria, France and the UK will perform and vote in the second. <\/p>\n
The semi-finals and grand final will be broadcast live on TV on BBC One and BBC iPlayer<\/a> and will also be available on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grand final of the contest will take place in the Wiener Stadthalle in the Austrian capital Vienna…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-457712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}