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Media release 16.01.2025

Basel seeks 700 volunteers for ESC 2025 - registration opens today

Joint announcement from the Presidential Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and SRG SSR. Starting today, volunteers can register for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel. Around 700 volunteers are needed to help shape the world’s largest music event and contribute to the atmosphere of the Host City. A variety of tasks and an exclusive behind-the-scenes experience await them. Anyone aged 18 and above can apply – local knowledge is an advantage. The organization is managed by Swiss Volunteers.

Visual ESC 2025

Media release 16.12.2024

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: stage design, visual and audio identity, partners and ticketing revealed

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2025 is taking shape, as the stage, visuals and audio identity are revealed. The Project Team presented the visual concept for the 69th Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Basel and launched the registration process for tickets. Four national partners were also presented.

Media release 04.12.2024

Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) media partnerships: time to submit concepts

How and in what form can media companies partner with the Eurovision Song Contest? The media partnership strategy has been finalised, the categories and conditions set out, and interested media companies can now apply to be Eurovision media partners by submitting their concepts between now and 20 December 2024.

Media release 16.09.2024

Bakel Walden is leaving SRG SSR

Bakel Walden, Director Development and Offering, has decided to leave the company per 1 November 2024. He will complete his external mandates on behalf of SRG until mid-2025.

Media release 06.09.2024

Edi Estermann named Head of Communication for ESC 2025

Edi Estermann, head of the SRG Press Office and spokesman for SRG Director General Gilles Marchand, has been named Head of Communication for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. From November he will focus solely on communication activities for the event.

Media release 30.08.2024

The ESC 2025 will take place in Basel

The decision has been made: The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be held in Basel. The city at the elbow of the Rhine was selected by the Swiss organiser of the Eurovision Song Contest, the SRG, yesterday evening and confirmed this morning by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Media release 19.07.2024

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The two finalist cities are revealed

Basel and Geneva are the two cities that have come out on top in SRG's ongoing selection process. One of these two cities will host the Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland in May 2025. The final decision will be made in late August.

Media release 03.07.2024

ESC 2025: the core project team is in place

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will take place in Switzerland. Following the appointment a month ago of Reto Peritz and Moritz Stadler as the Executive Producers of the Swiss ESC, now the core team for the project has also been named. And the bidding process to select the host city is entering the final, deciding phase.

Media release 04.06.2024

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Executive producers named

The SRG Executive Board has named Reto Peritz from SRF and Moritz Stadler from RTS as co-executive producers of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Switzerland. Both will retain their current roles but will be substituted for a year.

Media release 30.05.2024

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: now it’s up to the cities

Three weeks ago, an SRG task force started preparations for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which will be held in Switzerland. The cities interested in hosting the ESC received the detailed requirements catalogue this week.