{"id":98437,"date":"2011-05-24T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=98437"},"modified":"2011-05-24T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T13:01:32","slug":"provisional-dates-for-2012-eurovision-song-contest-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/24\/provisional-dates-for-2012-eurovision-song-contest-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Provisional Dates for 2012 Eurovision Song Contest Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The provisional dates for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku are May 22, 24 and 26, head of the public relations department at Azerbaijan&#8217;s public broadcaster told Vesti.az. The venue for the competition has not yet been chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Armenia has not yet officially announced whether it will participate in next year&#8217;s contest or not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/16\/too-early-to-think-about-next-years-eurovision-armenia-public-tv-and-radio-board-chair\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Earlier<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Chair of the Council of Armenian Public Television and Radio Company Alexan Harutyunyan told Epress.am that it was too early to discuss issues related to next year&#8217;s Eurovision contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never has Armenia&#8217;s Public TV and Radio Company discussed issues related to the next Eurovision so soon,&#8221; he had said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we begin to discuss this issue in the future, the Public Television and Radio Company will inform [the press],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the TV and radio company is focused on issues related to organizing Junior Eurovision in Yerevan this year, Harutyunyan added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Azerbaijani news website News.az, quoting Ictimai TV General Director Ismayil Omarov, the EBU will hold a meeting in Geneva on June 20 in order to discuss the final venue and dates for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esctoday.com\/news\/read\/17445\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports ESCtoday.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/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>Note that Armenia has not yet officially announced whether it will participate in next year&#8217;s contest or not.<!-- 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":98348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16192,19872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98437"}],"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=98437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}