Lithuania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Lithuania has sent four entries to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, first entering at the 2007 Contest in Rotterdam.

Lithuania
Member station	LRT
National selection events	National Final Mažųjų žvaigždžių ringas 2007–2008 Vaikų Eurovizijos nacionalinė atranka 2010–2011
Participation summary
Appearances	4
First appearance	2007
Last appearance	2011
Best result	3rd: 2008
Worst result	13th: 2007
External links
Lithuania's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see Lithuania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011

The national selection process occurs during the show Mažųjų žvaigždžių ringas (Young Stars Ring), in which young singers aged 10–15 will take part with self-written songs.

The 2007 Lithuanian entry was Lina Jurevičiūtė, a.k.a. Lina Joy, with the song "Kai miestas snaudžia", who finished 13th in the contest.

The 2008 entry was Eglė Jurgaitytė with "Laiminga diena", which ended third for Lithuania at the 2008 Contest in Limassol.

After two years of participating LRT withdrew due to financial reasons from the festival in 2009. But they returned in 2010.[1] That year LRT sent Bartas with the song "Oki Doki". It placed 6th out of 14 participants.

They also participated in 2011 and sent Paulina Skrabytė with the song "Debesys" which placed 10th.

In 2012, the country withdrew again due to expenses. Lithuania has not returned to the contest since.

Participation

Table key

3	Third place

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
2007	Lina Joy	"Kai miestas snaudžia"	Lithuanian	13	33
2008	Eglė Jurgaitytė	"Laiminga diena"	Lithuanian	3	103
2010	Bartas	"Oki Doki"	Lithuanian	6	67
2011	Paulina Skrabytė	"Debesys"	Lithuanian	10	53

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[2] The Lithuanian broadcaster, LRT, sent their own commentators to the contest in order to provide commentary in the Lithuanian language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Lithuania. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2007.

Year	Commentator	Channel	Spokesperson	Ref.
2007	Darius Užkuraitis	LTV	Indrė Grikšelytė
2008			Lina Joy
2009	No broadcast		Did not participate
2010	Darius Užkuraitis	LTV	Bernardas Garbačiauskas
2011			Dominykas Žvirblis
2012–2018	No broadcast		Did not participate
2019	Artur Orzech	TVP Wilno		[3]
2020	TBA			[4]

See also

• Lithuania in the Eurovision Dance Contest – Dance version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest – Senior version of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
• Lithuania in the Eurovision Young Musicians – A competition organised by the EBU for musicians aged 18 years and younger.

References

1. Bakker, Sietse (2010-07-28). "Talents from 14 nations to gather at Junior Eurovision 2011". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
2. Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision ng Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
3. Granger, Anthony (20 November 2019). "Lithuania: TVP Wilno to Broadcast Junior Eurovision 2019". eurovoix.com.
4. S.A, Telewizja Polska. "Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji - 18. Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji dla Dzieci Polska 2020". www.tvp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-11-17.