The news was confirmed this Thursday afternoon, after the tense Geneva Assembly at which members of the European Broadcasting Union met. RTVE announces Spain’s withdrawal from Eurovision after becoming official Israel’s participation in the next edition.
The public channel will not broadcast the festival either. Neither the semi-finals nor the final can be seen via La 1, La 2 or RTVE Play, although the EBU has assured BLUE that all non-participating countries can follow the broadcast via their YouTube channel.
Only if RTVE, as the holder of the Eurovision broadcast rights, wanted to sublicense them, Channels like Antena 3, Telecinco or FORTA could offer the competition. And at the moment, this scenario seems unlikely.
The relationship between RTVE and the EBU is going through a difficult period just when the Spanish delegation is already in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Gonzalo Pinillos, 14, is doing his first rehearsals for Junior Eurovision 2025.
In five days, December 13, Spain will participate in the children’s version of the festival. Pinillos will defend Once upon a time. The various members of the delegation agree to describe the teenager’s first contact with the Georgian scene as “fantastic”.
Well, why is Spain participating in Junior Eurovision if it refused to participate in the “adult” version? Although RTVE gave a, one might say, official reason, It is true that Israel has not participated in Junior Eurovision for years.
In fact, he only showed up for the appointment three times. The last, in 2018, the last year of absence (for the moment) from Spain. Because in June 2019, the Corporation announced its return to Junior, with Melani García as Spanish standard bearer.
The question remains whether RTVE will want to be part of Junior Eurovision in 2026. This newspaper asked, but The entity prefers not to make declarations.
Of course, if Gonzalo Pinillos won the “mini” crystal mic next Saturday, that would mean a headache for both parties.
And RTVE, as winner, He would be entrusted with the organization of Junior Eurovision 2026, as it already did in 2024, with its headquarters at the Caja Mágica in Madrid.
It’s “Once Upon a Time”
The staging of Once upon a time is integrated three acts which accompany the musical evolution of the subject.
The first, the most intimate, shows Gonzalo alone at the piano during the slow part of the song. “We wanted something very small, that looked a lot like him. We worked with close-ups of his hands and a very close production,” explains Juan Sebastián, artistic director, to RTVE.
The second act arrives when the song breaks with “anything is possible”. This is the time when everything is filled with rhythm and energy.
The change of screens, lighting and references to characters like Snowy, Naruto, Asterix or Obelix They place the viewer in a world of vibrant colors.
The progression culminates with the appearance of a giant circular librarykey element of the staging, which symbolizes a refuge space for reading.
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