Spain: Anne Igartiburu to host Spanish selection

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Well known Spanish tv presenter Anne Igartiburu will be back on the Spanish Eurovision scene in 2011 according to Spanish web portal vertele.com. She hosted the 2010 Spanish Eurovision national final. Vertele also reports that Gestmusic, the company which produced Operación Triunfo and the Spanish Eurovision national finals in 2002, 2003 and 2004, will be back on the scene too, thus organizing and producing the 2011 Spanish Eurovision selection galas.

Anne Irgatiburu will be a very familiar face to Eurovision fans as she hosted the 2010 Spanish Eurovision national final. Vertele.com reports that the honour of hosting the 2011 Spanish Eurovision selection shows and final has been yet again given to Anne Igartiburu. The Spanish presenter has also been resposible for announcing the Spanish votes at the Eurovision Song Contest several times.

Gestmusic, the Barcelona-based company that produced the famous Operación Triunfo series for TVE and the Spanish Eurovision national finals in 2002, 2003 and 2004 from where Rosa, Beth and Ramón came out, has been appointed by TVE to produce the 2011 Spanish Eurovision semifinals and finals. Rosa, Beth and Ramón have been the most successful Spanish Eurovisionrepresentatives in the last 10 years., together with David Civera. TVE has not confirmed officially neither the producernor thepresenter of the Spanish Eurovision 2011national final selection yet.

As esctoday.com reported yesterday, the Spanish artist and song will be chosen separately. Stay tuned to esctoday.com for the latest news and developments on the 2011 Spanish Eurovision national selection.