Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 | |
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| Shine Bright | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 26 November 2017 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Tbilisi Sports Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Presenter(s) | TBA |
| Director | TBA |
| Executive supervisor | Jon Ola Sand |
| Executive producer | TBA |
| Host broadcaster | Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 9 (to date) |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country's adult & kid juries award 12, 10, 8–1 points to their top 10 songs. |
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be the fifteenth annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest, organised by the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It was confirmed in February 2017 that the event is scheduled to take place on 26 November 2017 at the Tbilisi Sports Palace, in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. This will be the fifth time that the contest was hosted by the previous year's winning country. The visual design and contest slogan, "Shine Bright", was revealed in May 2017.
As of 17 June 2017, nine countries have announced their provisional participation in the contest.
The EBU confirmed in February 2017 that the contest would be hosted by Georgia. This will be the first Eurovision event hosted by the country, despite them winning a record three times. It was confirmed on 26 February 2017 that Tbilisi would host the contest. On 16 March 2017, it was announced that the Tbilisi Sports Palace would be the host venue for the contest.
During the Winners Press Conference of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Jon Ola Sand - Head of Live Events, announced that the EBU would invite broadcasting members to submit applications to host the 2017 contest, which will take place on 26 November 2017.Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) announced on 22 November 2016 that they had begun talks with the EBU in connection to hosting the 2017 contest. The first refusal of hosting rights to the winning country of the previous is something that was introduced by the EBU since the 2013 contest.
On 12 May 2017, the host broadcaster Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed the contest slogan as "Shine Bright" for the 2017 edition, during a press conference held at the International Exhibition Centre, in Kiev, Ukraine - hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. Details of the visual design and logo were also released during the conference.
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