Greece: All set for the final

by Stella Floras 87 views

Everything is set for this Wednesday's Greek final. Sarbel, Tamta and Christos Dantis will be competing for the golden ticket to Helsinki with Yassou Maria, With Love and No Madonna respectively. Everything is geared up for what seems to be the most “powerful final” so far.

Fresh from the Mision Eurovision final in Spain, the esctoday.com national final tour moves from Madrid to Athens to continueour coverage of the National Final season.
The running order is as follows:
  1. SarbelYassou Maria
  2. Tamta With love
  3. Christos Dantis No Madonna

The guest list is complete as well with DJ Bobo, the Swiss representative,who will be presenting Vampires are alive for the first time on stage, Evridiki and Dimitris Korgialaswho will be performing Comme ci, Comme ça– the cypriot entry, the Bulgarian representatives Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulove with Voda and Dmitry Koldun, the Belarussian representative who will be performing Work your magic.

Finally, Mihai Traistariu, last year's Romanian representative and a great favorite with the Greek public, will be present to perform three songs: Tornero, Why (a ballad, runner up in the 2000 Romanian final), and his new single Dimmi si o no which will be officially launched in Greece on the night of the final.

The Greek final is taking place on Wednesday 28 February, at 22.00 local time, (you can find your own time zone here) at the Athinon Arena, in Athens. The show will be broadcast live on NET channel, ERT World and there will be a webcast provided at www.ert.gr.

Satellite information:
Hotbird (Free) 6-13E, 11642H, 27500, ¾
NSS 806 (Free), 40.5W, 3803L, 27500, ¾ ( North and South America)
Telestar 10 (Free), 76.5E, 3680H, 27500, ¾ (Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia)
Optus B3, 152E, 12525V, 30000, 2/3 (Australia)
You may find additional satellite information here ( external link in English and Greek)

Esctoday.com will be bringing you live coverage of the final together with exclusive interviews from the Greek finalists and guest stars.

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Stella Floras

Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain.

I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.