{"id":2390,"date":"2026-02-18T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/2390\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:14:08","slug":"rtbf-to-unveil-eurovision-2026-act-and-entry-on-19th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/2390\/","title":{"rendered":"RTBF to unveil Eurovision 2026 act and entry on 19th February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Belgium is all set to unveil its Eurovision 2026 entry and act tomorrow Thursday 19th February.<\/p>\n<p>RTBF, the French speaking Belgian national broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtbf.be\/article\/eurovision-2026-la-rtbf-devoilera-l-artiste-et-la-chanson-qui-representeront-la-belgique-ce-jeudi-19-fevrier-11680624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will be unveiling the Belgian Eurovision 2026<\/a> Eurovision act and entry on Thursday 19th February at 08:40 CET:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Belgium \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea | Song &amp; Artist Reveal | #Eurovision2026\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9sfI4g6DWTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RTBF has opted for an internal selection in order to determine the Belgian ESC 2026 act and entry.<\/p>\n<p>The song and the official videoclip will be relased on all RTBF platforms and on the ESC\u2019s official YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium in Eurovision<\/p>\n<p>Belgium is one of the founding members of the Eurovision Song Contest having debuted in 1956. The country has won the competition once in 1986 with\u00a0Sandra Kim.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025\u00a0\u00a0Red Sebastian\u00a0defended the Belgian colours at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel with his entry \u2018\u00a0Strobe Lights\u2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Belgium is all set to unveil its Eurovision 2026 entry and act tomorrow Thursday 19th February. RTBF,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,2053,2054,2055],"class_list":{"0":"post-2390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-eurovision","10":"tag-eurovision-2026","11":"tag-rtbf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}