{"id":55910,"date":"2011-01-18T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=55910"},"modified":"2011-01-18T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:51:23","slug":"2011-junior-eurovision-to-be-held-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/18\/2011-junior-eurovision-to-be-held-in-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"2011 Junior Eurovision to be Held in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Armenia on Dec. 3, Gohar Gasparyan, head of the Junior Eurovision program in Armenia, told journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four to five states, who expressed a wish to host Junior Eurovision, were represented in the competition, and today we were informed that our proposal was recognized as the best,&#8221; said Gasparyan.<\/p>\n<p>She also informed the press that the song contest will be held at the Karen Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex in Yerevan, while the program will be directed by a Swedish producer. Armenian representatives will work with HB Resources, while the European Broadcasting Union will provide some of the equipment needed for broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of Armenia&#8217;s Public TV Alexan Harutyunyan, in turn, noted that Armenia&#8217;s European colleagues have already visited Armenia. &#8220;They were impressed with the sport and concert complex, the technical base, and the staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Azerbaijan will have a participant in the contest, Harutyunyan said, Azerbaijan has never participated in the concert, but he would be happy if that changed this year. Both Harutyunyan and Gasparyan said world-renown stars would be invited to the contest, and, on an organizational level, the contest held in Armenia would be no less than other Junior Eurovision events.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song contest will be held at the Karen Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex in Yerevan, while the program will be directed by&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16192,20368,12987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}