{"id":671632,"date":"2026-01-03T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:53:14","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7-france-will-not-host-junior-eurovision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671632\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 France will not host Junior Eurovision 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having won <a href=\"https:\/\/thateurovisionsite.com\/2025\/12\/13\/junior-eurovision-2025-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junior Eurovision 2025 with \u201cCe Monde\u201d in Tbilisi<\/a>, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions has rejected hosting Junior Eurovision 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Board of Directors decisions <\/p>\n<p>Following a Board of Directors meeting on December 18, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francetvpro.fr\/contenu-de-presse\/75384440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the broadcaster confirmed<\/a> that it cannot commit to hosting JESC2026 in France. <\/p>\n<p>In order to balance its 2026 budget, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions must make an effort of 140 million euros \u2013 combining cuts, savings and increased revenue. In order to do so the broadcaster has announced a series of measures that will be taken : <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>reduce programme costs by 5%<\/li>\n<li>cancel certain shows<\/li>\n<li>increase reruns<\/li>\n<li>consider selling major sports rights <\/li>\n<li>renounce hosting Junior Eurovision 2026 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This decision follows a 65.2 million drop in public funding compared to 2025. <\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Junior Eurovision History<\/p>\n<p>France took part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2004. Represented by Thomas Pontier singing \u201cSi on voulait bien\u201d, France finished in 6th place earning 78 points. However, the country withdrew from the Contest, citing a \u2018Eurovision overkill\u2019. France would not rejoin the Contest until 2018. Since then, France has become a Junior Eurovision powerhouse, finishing in the top 5 in each of their four subsequent participations. France won the 2020 edition of the Contest, with Valentina singing \u201cJ\u2019imagine\u201d. In 2022, France won for a second time with Lissandro\u2019s song \u201cOh Maman\u201d, and subsequently won again in 2023, with Zoe Clauzure and the song \u201cC\u0153ur\u201d, making them only the second country to win Junior Eurovision three times.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Lou Deleuze represented France with the song \u201cCe Monde\u201d. She won the contest with 248 points. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Are you sad that France will not host Junior Eurovision 2026 ? As always, let us know what you think by commenting down below. Also, be sure to follow \u2018That Eurovision Site\u2019 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thateurosite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatEuroSite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thateurosite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thateurosite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@thateurosite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threads<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thateurosite.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky\u00a0<\/a>for all things Junior Eurovision!<\/p>\n<p>News Source: France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions <\/p>\n<p>Photo credit : Corinne Cumming \/ EBU<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>\t\tPost navigation<\/p>\n<p>\t                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having won Junior Eurovision 2025 with \u201cCe Monde\u201d in Tbilisi, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions has rejected hosting Junior Eurovision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,204417,86712],"class_list":{"0":"post-671632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-jesc","12":"tag-junior-eurovision"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115832449139808327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671632","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=671632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}