Tonight at CET 21:00, Serbian broadcaster - and last year's host for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest - RTS is streaming the final of Beovizija 2009.
Jovana JankoviÄ will be tonightās hostess for the final in the Serbian selection event for Moscow. Jovana JankoviÄ is a famous TV host, and she also co-hosted last yearās edition of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Belgrade, Serbia, after the incredible win of the Balkan country in 2007 after their very first participation in the event as an independent state.
After an exciting semi-final yesterday evening, 20 songs were cut down to 10. Hence the line-up of tonightās final consists of the following participants (random order):
Sonja BakiÄ - NiÅ”ta novo
Marko Kon i Milan NikoliÄ - Cipela
Andrej IliÄ - Nemam te
Etar - Sanjaj me
DuÅ”an ZrniÄ - Tvoje drugo ime je greh
Oscar & Beauty Queens feat. ÄorÄe MarjanoviÄ - Superstar
Pozitivan haos - Gloria
Danijel i Milica - H8ER
SaÅ”ka JankoviÄ - NauÄi me
OT Bend - Blagoslov za kraj
Ana NikoliÄ - Bili smo najlepÅ”i
Ivana Selakov - Moje odbrane
Ivana Selakov and Ana NikoliÄ were added to the list of finalists after recounting the votes jury- and televotes.
The selection of the winner is made up by half jury vote, half televote. The jury is made up by three jury members, and televoting is conducted by landlines and mobile network. Jury and televote are valued equally. It is only possible to vote once from one telephone number.
The theme of tonight's event is RTS TV series. Acting couple, Srdjan Timarov and Milena Vasic will in a meddley perform songs from most famous TV series RTS produced over the years. During the interval act, Sirusho (Armenia 2008), Jelena TomaseviÄ (Serbia 2008) and Boaz Mauda (Israel 2008) will perform for the first time song called Time to pray (lyrics by Israeli President Mr. Peres, music by Boaz Mauda and Tomer Biran).
Serbia has a short, but proud tradition already in terms of placements in the Eurovision Song Contest. Already in the countries first participation in Helsinki in 2007, the country won the song contest with Marija SerifoviÄ's Molitva. In last year's edition of Europe's favourite TV-show, Serbia came 6th on homeground when Jelena TomaseviÄ sang her beautiful balad Oro.
