Bulgarian broadcaster BNT have announced the rules for the country's preselection for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Once again, the Bulgarians will be producing a special show for the occasion but in a different format to last year's EuroBGvision.

Be a star, this year's Bulgarian preselection, will take place in two phases. Eighteen songs in total will compete in the semi final. Nine of them will be selected by the Bulgarian public via televote and nine more by a special jury. A jury, different to the original one, will then select nine songs to go to the final between 1st October – 19th December. Those will be joined by three more songs commissioned by the broadcaster. The final decision, on the night of the final, will be taken entirely through televote and sms voting.

All songs submitted for Be a star must be Bulgarian products but the choice of language is up to the creators. The deadline for the submission of the songs is 19th September.

Rules can be found here (in Bulgarian).