Tonight, Wednesday 16 January is the first day Europe gets a taste of what Norway has to offer for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. The songs taking part in each of the three heats will be presented in a special show from the host city on each Wednesday.

The programme

MGP Direkte is the name of the show, coming from Steinkjer this week, and it will present the seven songs from the first heat of Melodi Grand Prix (MGP) for the first time.

How to watch

Live on NRK1 at 20.15 CET. Repeat 02.15 Thursday and 11.30 Friday

Online on NRK.no

Participants

will be revealed during this programme


Juha has been following Eurovision Song Contest since the 1960s. Writing for www.esctoday.com since 2008, and other websites before that. A Finn living in London.