Asien får sitt eget Eurovision song contest i höst

Eurovision Song Contest Asia is set to be an international song competition modeled after the Eurovision Song Contest, in which countries of the Asia-Pacific region are set to compete. The inaugural edition, organised by Voxovation, S2O, and host broadcaster Channel 3, will take place on 14 November 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand. Plans for an adaptation of the Eurovision Song Contest for the Asian continent began in earnest in 2008. The project was taken up in 2016 by Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), which developed an iteration of the format with Blink TV and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for a planned debut in 2019. SBS shelved the project in 2021, and it was subsequently handed to Voxovation, a company established to develop adaptations of the Eurovision format for other territories with license from the EBU. No further updates were made until 2025, when the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) aired a competition titled Druk Dra, which is intended to select its entry for a Eurovision Asia contest before Voxovation asked the broadcaster to halt it. In March 2026, the EBU and Voxovation officially announced the competition, with Thailand as the host country and an initial list of ten participating countries.