Final TBA November 2017 Presenter(s) TBA Executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand | Venue TBA, Tbilisi, Georgia Director TBA Executive producer TBA | |
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be the fifteenth annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and is scheduled to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia in November 2017. As of 13 March 2017, six countries have announced their provisional participation in the contest.
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During the Winners Press Conference of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Jon Ola Sand - Head of Live Events, announced that the EBU would invite broadcasting members to submit applications to host the 2017 contest, which is expected to take place sometime in November 2017. Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) announced on 22 November 2016 that they had begun talks with the EBU in connection to hosting the 2017 contest. The first refusal of hosting rights to the winning country of the previous is something that was introduced by the EBU since the 2013 contest. The EBU confirmed in February 2017 that the contest would be hosted by Georgia. This will be the first Eurovision event hosted by the country, despite them winning a record three times. It was confirmed on 26 February 2017 that Tbilisi would host the contest.
Provisional list of participants
As of 13 March 2017 the following countries have confirmed their provisional interest to participate.
Other countries
For a country to be eligible for potential participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, it needs to be an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It is currently unknown whether the EBU issue invitations of participation to all 56 active members like they do for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The following list of countries participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016, although no announcements have been published so far on whether they will continue to participate in the 2017 contest.