"Unser Star für Baku" goes on air again tonight, with the second of seven heats leading up to the final on 16 February. Just like last week, 10 contestants will compete and five of them will be the lucky ones to proceed to the next stage on 26 January, where they will...

"This Week" is the new regular show by us in the national final season! It's a weekly review of Eurovision preselection shows and their results, as well as other major happenings in the ESC world. Here's the first edition - we hope you enjoy it!

This week will see the launch of esc-chat.com's new video show, called - appropriately enough - "This Week"! For various reasons, it turns out that we won't be able to produce our weekly "Tuesday Show" in its traditional studio format this season (although there may...

In a warm-up for the real "Super Saturdays" facing dedicated Eurovision fans over the coming weeks and months, tonight saw three semi-finals held in Bulgaria, Latvia and Iceland respectively. With webcasts overlapping and results being announced simultaneously in some...

Three semi-finals hit Europe tonight! Bulgaria starts things off at 19:30 CET with its only semi, where 12 out of 22 entries will be voted into the final on 29 February, by both juries and SMS. Latvia continues proceedings with its second of two semi-finals, selecting...

Five singers managed to get into the next stage of "Unser Star für Baku" yesterday, meaning the other five contestans had to leave the show. After an unbelievably tight race for the places 1-6, Kai ended up on what the hosts called the "Arschplatz" - 6th place, and...

"Unser Star für Baku" begins tonight with the first out of seven heats before the final on 16 February. The selection format will roughly follow the 2010 scheme of "Unser Star für Oslo". New is the jury which will remain constant throughout all the shows this time,...

Five songs qualified in yesterday's first semi-final in Latvia. Together with the next five qualifiers from semi 2, they will compete in the Latvian national final on Saturday, 18 February. The results were made up by both televoting and juries. The chat's top 3 all...

Eirodziesma 2012 kicks off tonight with the first of two semi-finals. 10 contestants will perform their entries, and five of them will be the lucky ones to proceed to the Latvian Final on Saturday, 18 February. The voting is expected to be made up of 50% televoting...