The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson Junior), is an international song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003 and is open exclusively to broadcasters that are members of the EBU. It is held in a different European city each year.
The competition has many similarities to the Eurovision Song Contest from which its name is taken. Each participating broadcaster sends an act, the members of which are aged 10 to 15 on the day of the contest, and an original song lasting between 2 minutes 30 seconds and 2 minutes 45 seconds to compete against the other entries. Each entry represents the country served by the participating broadcaster. Viewers from the participating countries are invited to vote for their favourite performances by televote (though a back-up jury may be used if a broadcaster does not screen the contest live or there is a technical failure with the televoting). The overall winner of the contest is the entry that has received the most points after the scores from every country have been collected and totalled.
In addition to the countries taking part, the contest has been screened in many other territories including Australia, Estonia, Finland, Germany and Israel. Since 2006, the contest has been streamed live on the Internet through the official website of the contest.
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