{"id":410889,"date":"2025-09-09T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410889\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:36:25","slug":"rtve-unveils-more-benidorm-fest-2026-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410889\/","title":{"rendered":"RTVE unveils more Benidorm Fest 2026 details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RTVE, the Spanish national broadcaster, has unveiled further details regarding the forthcoming edition of Benidorm Fest 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RTVE is working round the clock in its quest to organize the fifth edition of Benidorm Fest next February. The Spanish national broadcaster has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtve.es\/television\/20250909\/benidorm-fest-2026-novedades\/16721826.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed further details<\/a> regarding the 2026 Spanish national selection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Borja Rueda has been appointed as the choreographer for Benidorm Fest 2026 ( he was part of JJ\u2019s artistic team at Eurovision 2025 along with Sergio Jaen):<\/li>\n<li>There will be staging mechanisms offered to the competing acts: in house staging (where Sergio Jaen\u2019s artistic team will be responsible for the staging) and out house ( where the artist will use his or her own team).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Benidorm 2026 Rehearsals will be open to the general public, ie tickets for the reheasals will go on sale ( most likely for the rehearsals on 09, 11 and 13 February).<\/li>\n<li>The Benidorm Fest 2026 competing acts will be announced during the first half of October.<\/li>\n<li>A new expert jury will be responsible to evaluate the submitted entries for Benidorm Fest and select the 16 competing acts\/songs. The voting mechanism for the expert jury has been amended and modified.<\/li>\n<li>The Benidorm Fest 2026 stage design is inspired by Benidorm\u2019s Balcon de Europa, and will be in a pentagon shape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Benidorm Fest 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>RTVE<\/strong>\u00a0will be opting to select the Spanish Eurovision entry and act via\u00a0<strong>Benidorm Fest<\/strong>\u00a0for the fifth consecutive time. The Spanish national broadcaster has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtve.es\/contenidos\/eurovision\/bases-benidorm-fest-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0published the rules and regulations<\/a> for Benidorm Fest 2026. The song submission window for Benidorm Fest 2026\u00a0 will close on<strong>\u00a024 September 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benidorm Fest 2026 will consist of three live televised shows ( two semi-finals and a grand final). A total of 16 acts will partake in the competition, eight acts in each of the two semi-finals. The top four acts from each semi-final will proceed to the Grand Final after a\u00a0<strong>50\/50 public -jury deliberation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hence a total of 8 acts will battle for the golden ticket to Eurovision 2026 at the Grand Final of Benidorm Fest 2026.<\/p>\n<p>RTVE reserves the right to extend the number of competing acts at Benidorm Fest 2026 both in the semi-finals and grand final if it deems that the quality of the songs is high.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Spanish Eurovision act and entry will be determined via a 50\/50 jury \/public voting deliberation. The public voting will consist of 25% (app, televoting,sms) and 25% (demoscopic vote).<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Benidorm Fest will<a href=\"https:\/\/esctoday.com\/200863\/spain-the-winner-of-benidorm-fest-2026-will-be-awarded-e150000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0be awarded<\/a>\u00a0\u20ac100,000 whilst the composers of the winning entry will receive \u20ac50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The song submission for Benidorm Fest 2026 will take place via two different mechanisms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RTVE will extend a direct invite to established composers and artists<\/li>\n<li>Online public song submission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Benidorm Fest 2026 will be held on 10, 12 and 14 February in Benidorm, Spain. The 2026 Spanish Eurovision act and entry will be determined on Saturday 14 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Spain at Eurovision<\/p>\n<p>Spain debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961 and has won the event twice. In 2025\u00a0<strong>Melody<\/strong>\u00a0represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel with her entry \u2018Esa Diva\u2018.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; RTVE, the Spanish national broadcaster, has unveiled further details regarding the forthcoming edition of Benidorm Fest 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[69303,61537,2000,299,19345,60803,66838,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-410889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-benidorm-fest","9":"tag-benidorm-fest-2026","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-eurovision","13":"tag-eurovision-2026","14":"tag-rtve","15":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175318129887543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}