Khabar Agency has been formally invited by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union to participate in the 2020 ABU Song Contest.
The Kazakh broadcaster Khabar Agency has been formally invited to participate in the 2020 ABU Song Contest in China. The invitation was offered by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union at meetings between Alan Azhibayev Chairman of Khabar Agency, and Dr Javad Mottaghi the Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
Khabar Agency was also invited to once again participate in the 2019 ABU TV Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan. Khabar Agency has participated in the ABU TV Song Festival since the 2015 event in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Kazakh broadcaster has expressed an interest in hosting the ABU General Assembly and associated events in the coming years. The ABU has proposed the broadcaster host the 2029 General Assembly, while Khabar Agency is interested in hosting the 2022 or 2025 editions. Should it decide it to, it would host the ABU TV Song Festival.
The ABU Song Contest was due to take place next month in Qingdao, China but has now been delayed until 2020. The ABU has confirmed to Eurovoix World, that the competition will still be held in Qingdao, China in 2020. The new dates of the contest are:
- Semi-Final – April 16
- Grand Final – April 18
How will the ABU Song Contest work?
Each broadcaster will select their participant for the competition, the singer must be 16 years old or over. All singers must perform live at the contest and can perform a song in any genre. Songs may be original or popular songs, but cannot be about sensitive issues. Songs may not exceed 3 minutes in length.
All participants apart from those from the host nation must compete in the semi-final. Qualifiers will be selected from the semi-final to compete in the Grand Final.
The qualifiers and the winner will be decided by the votes of audience juries and an International Professional Jury. The International Professional Jury will be located in the venue, while the Audience Juries are formed by each participating broadcaster. Each audience jury is formed of 100 people.
Source: ABU
