SVT, the Swedish broadcaster, has confirmed that they are going to broadcast both semi finals of this year's Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Belgrade on 20 and 22 May 2008.

When most broadcasters are holding back until the day of the draw for the allocation of the countries in the two semi finals to decide which one(s) they are going to broadcast, Sweden goes ahead and schedules both semi finals to be aired live through SVT1.

The full broadcast schedule on SVT 1 is as follows:

SVT 1 Tuesday May 20th 21.00: semi final 1
SVT 1 Thursday May 22nd 21.00: semi final 2
SVT 1 Saturday May 24th 21.00 final

A special thank you to Inca for her contribution to the article.

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