Five years after the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was launched, the Eurovision family will be extented once again: The EBU created the Eurovision Dance Contest, to be held on 1st September 2007 for the first time. A kick-off production meeting took place yesterday in London at the BBC. This new international production consists of a ballroom, latin and freestyle dance competition between mixed couples.
The following EBU members have already expressed their interest:
- ORF (Austria)
- DR (Denmark)
- ARD (Germany)
- RTE (Ireland)
- HRT (Croatia)
- TVP (Poland)
- RTP (Portugal)
- RTR (Russia)
- TVE (Spain)
- TV4 (Sweden)
- SRG (Switzerland)
- TROS (Netherlands)
- NTU (Ukraine)
- BBC (United Kingdom)
The show will be broadcast live at 21:00 CET, hosted by the United Kingdom and organised and produced by Splash Media and Sunset+V in collaboration with Eurovision TV.
