Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Also known as Junior Eurovision 2017, JESC 2017
15th annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Key facts
- Final
- 26 November 2017
- Venue
- Olympic Palace , Tbilisi, Georgia
- Organiser
- European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
- Executive supervisor
- Jon Ola Sand
- Host broadcaster
- Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB)
- Directors
- Simon Gibney , Gordon Bonello
- Executive producer
- Sergi Gvarjaladze
- Presenters
- Helen Kalandadze , Lizi Japaridze
- Countries that participated after not pa
- Portugal
- Countries that did not participate after
- Bulgaria , Israel
- Voting system
- Each country's professional jury award 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs. International viewers vote for 3–5 songs, and votes are converted to points by proportional representation .
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was the fifteenth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 26 November 2017 at the Olympic Palace, in Tbilisi, Georgia, and presented by Helen Kalandadze and Lizi Japaridze. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), who staged the event after winning the 2016 contest for Georgia with the song "Mzeo" by Mariam Mamadashvili. This was the fifth time that the contest was hosted by the previous year's winning broadcaster. The visual design and contest slogan, "Shine Bright", were revealed in May 2017.
Broadcasters from sixteen countries participated in the contest, which saw the return of Portugal for the first time since 2007 and the withdrawals of Bulgaria and Israel.