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and Sakis Rouvas .]] , the artist responsible for taking Eurovision to Greece.]] The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 will be the fifty-first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest , which will be held at the Olympic Indoor Hall , Athens , Greece . The scheduled dates for the contests are 18 May 2006 for the semi-final and 20 May 2006 for the final. ERT , the host broadcaster of the contest, have already started preparations and are ahead of schedule. The venue for the contest has already been chosen and the stage designs have been finalized. The official logo of the contest has remained the same from 2004 and 2005 with the country's flag in the heart being changed. The 2006 sub-logo created by the design company Karamela for Greek television is apparently based on the Phaistos Disc which is a popular symbol of Ancient Greece . According to ERT , it is "inspired by the wind and the sea, the golden sunlight and the glow of the sand". Following Istanbul's "Under The Same Sky" and Kiev's "Awakening", the slogan for the 2006 show is "Feel The Rhythm" and is apparently tied into Greek tourism's "Feel The Myth" slogan. This theme will also for the basis for the postcards for the 2006 show, which will apparently emphasize Greece's historical significance as well as being a modern tourist destination. The hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens are popular Greek singer Sakis Rouvas (the Greek representitive at Eurovision in 2004) and the Greek-American television presenter and actress, Maria Menounos . Elena Paparizou , who performed the winning song in Kyiv, will return to the Eurovision stage in Athens. Following the examples of Sertab Erener and Ruslana in the last two years, Elena will perform the links from the backstage "green room", interviewing the contestants. An official CD and DVD will be released and a new introduction is an official fan book released this year, and every year to come with detailed information of every country. To save time in the Final, the voting process will be changed: points 1-7 will be shown immediately on a live scoreboard. The spokespersons will only announce the countries scoring 8, 10 and 12 points. However, the last three countries to give their votes on the night will present all their points fully as in previous years. The 2006 contest will see the 1,000th eurovision song entry performed - it will be "Every Song Is A Cry For Love" by Ireland's representative Brian Kennedy in the semi-final. The qualification rules for 2007 were also changed in advance of the 2006 contest. Only the winner from 2006, and the next highest placed 5 countries, along with the 'Big-4' (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) will automatically qualify for the 2007 final. With a capping on the number of participants overall at 40 countries, this means that a total of 30 countries may participate in the 2007 semi-final, bringing the duration of that contest to 3 hours, an equivalent duration to the final. INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES Albania - Andorra - Armenia - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia And Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Iceland - Ireland - Israel - Latvia - Lithuania - Macedonia - Malta - Moldova - Monaco - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom |
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