{"id":1392309,"date":"2026-05-12T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/eurovision-2026-starts-in-vienna-when-and-where-to-watch-the-first-broadcast\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:44:19","slug":"eurovision-2026-starts-in-vienna-when-and-where-to-watch-the-first-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/eurovision-2026-starts-in-vienna-when-and-where-to-watch-the-first-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026 starts in Vienna: when and where to watch the first broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Tuesday, May 12, the 70th anniversary Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will start in Vienna. This year, Austria is hosting the contest after singer JJ won in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by the official page of the competition and Suspilne.<\/p>\n<p> The first stage will be the first semi-final, which will feature 15 participating countries. Only 10 of them will advance to the grand final, which will take place on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is the start of the fight for a place in the final among the 36 participating countries,\u201d the organizers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> The contest is being held in the Austrian capital, Vienna, at the Wiener Stadthalle. This is the country&#8217;s third time hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, having previously hosted the show in 1967 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p> The broadcast of the first semi-final will begin at 22:00 Kyiv time. In Ukraine, the show will be available to watch on the <strong>Suspilne Kultura<\/strong> TV channel, <strong>Suspilne&#8217;s<\/strong> online platforms, and <strong>the Eurovision Ukraine<\/strong> YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p> This year, Ukraine will be represented by singer Leleka with the song Ridnym. She will perform in the second semi-final on May 14.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevrobachennia-2026-de-dyvytysia-pershyy-pivfinal-ta-koly-vystupyt-ukraina\/\">the show will start at 22:00 Kyiv time<\/a> . The pre-show with host Timur Miroshnychenko, as well as Vasyl Baydak, Svitlana Tarabarova and alyona alyona will start earlier &#8211; at 21:30.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, May 12, the 70th anniversary Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will start in Vienna. This year, Austria is hosting the contest after singer JJ won in 2025. This was reported by the official page of the competition and Suspilne. The first stage will be the first semi-final, which will feature 15 participating countries. Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1392292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76878,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1392309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}