Beovizija 2009
| Beovizija 2009 | |
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| Dates | |
| Semi-final | 7 March 2009 |
| Final | 8 March 2009 |
| Venue | Sava Centar, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Presenter(s) |
Jovana Janković Milena Vasić Srđan Timarov |
| Interval act |
Semi-finals: Performances by Regina, Igor Cukrov, Andrea Demirović, Next Time and Quartissimo Serbian music industry awards Final: Performance by Bo'az Ma'uda, Sirusho and Jelena Tomašević |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 20 (semi-final), 11 (final) |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | 50% jury and 50% televoting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points awarded to 10 favourite songs |
| Winning song | "Cipela" by Marko Kon & Milan Nikolić |
Beovizija 2009 (Беовизија 2009) was the 7th Beovizija music festival, Serbian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-finals were held on March 7, 2009 while the finals were held a day later on March 8. The winners of this Beovizija were Marko Kon and Milan Nikolić with the song "Cipela", and they will represent Serbia in the second semi-final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest on May 14, 2009, at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow, Russia.
The same format set by Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in Beovizija 2008 took place in 2009. The deadline for the submission of songs by artist to the national broadcaster was on January 27, 2009. One of the requirements for entry was that the songs must be performed in Serbian, however, the winning song can be sung in any language at Eurovision. The only main difference to last year's Beovizija was that the winners (both the artists and composers) also received a cash prize.
On January 30, 2009, 20 semi-finalists were selected by a group of RTS judges: Jelena Ilić, Ana Milićević and Jelena Vlahović. The final of Beovizija 2009 was held on March 8, 2009 at the Sava Centar in Belgrade. The winner of Beovizija 2009, selected through a 50/50 split of jury and televoting.
Beovizija is known to have one of the best stage designs in the national selection process for Eurovision. This year the stage will symbolise the technological advances in television in the past 50 years in Serbia. This is why a large number of television and LCD display screens is being used. The stage has settings for all new electronic possibilities. The theme of the two nights is largely based around the music from popular local television shows in the past 50 years. The semi-final was based around popular shows produced since the 1970s to the end of the 1990s while the final will be centred on new popular television shows aired on RTS. The stage design was revealed to the public on February 25, 2009.
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