{"id":77317,"date":"2026-05-07T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/77317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:11","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b4-faroe-islands-kvf-will-not-broadcast-eurovision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/77317\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf4 Faroe Islands: KvF Will Not Broadcast Eurovision 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faroese broadcaster Kringvarp F\u00f8roya will not broadcast this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest will not be broadcast by Faroese Broadcaster KvF, as neither Semi-Finals or Grand Final broadcasts appear on their <a href=\"https:\/\/kvf.fo\/nskra\/sv?date=2026-05-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">programming schedule<\/a>. The broadcaster aired the contest live to viewers in the Faroe Islands at last year\u2019s contest in Basel, and previously in between 1983 and 2002, and in 2011, 2014, and 2023.\u00a0At the time, Kringvarp F\u00f8roya reached an agreement with the Danish broadcaster DR to air the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Until Kringvarp F\u00f8roya joins the European Broadcasting Union, Faroese citizens wishing to take to the Eurovision stage can only compete on behalf of Denmark. Two Faroese artists have performed on the Eurovision stage in recent years \u2013 Reiley in 2023, and Sissal in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Faroe Islands broadcaster KvF has hopes of competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. KVF reported in 2024 that at least five years\u2019 worth of support will be required to gain membership of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>EBU membership fees will be significant for the broadcaster, with an estimated one-off payment of 1.5 Million Kr (201,000 Euro), with an additional 500,000 Kr (67,000 Euro) membership fee each year. Participation in the Eurovision Song Contest would cost a significant amount, including participation fees, costs of staying in the host city, and the cost of staging its performance.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/kvf.fo\/nskra\/sv?date=2026-05-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KvF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faroese broadcaster Kringvarp F\u00f8roya will not broadcast this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest. This year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,5931],"class_list":{"0":"post-77317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faroe-islands","8":"tag-faroe-islands","9":"tag-headline"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116534893786071941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}