Slovenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Slovenia
Slovenia
Member station	RTVSLO
National selection events	Internal Selection 2014 ; National Final Mini EMA ; 2015 ;
Participation summary
Appearances	2
First appearance	2014
Last appearance	2015
Highest placement	3rd: 2015
External links
	Slovenia's page at JuniorEurovision.tv
	For the most recent participation see; Slovenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015

Slovenia made its debut at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 held in Marsa, Malta with Ula Ložar singing "Nisi Sam/Your light". Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO) is Slovenia's representative broadcaster at the contest. In 2014, Slovenia's entry was picked by internal selection.^[1] Mini EMA, a national selection, selected the Slovenian entry for Junior Eurovision 2015.^[2]

On 24 May 2016, the Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO announced that they would withdraw from the contest for the first time since their debut in the 2014 edition of the contest. The broadcaster explained that the decision was made based on changes to the contest rules by the EBU, although not specifying which rule changes influenced their decision to withdraw from the competition.^[3] In May 2019, the broadcaster revealed that their reason for withdrawal was the cost of participation.^[4]

Participation overview[]

Table key
3	Third place

Year	Entrant	Song	Language	Place	Points
2014	Ula Ložar	"Nisi sam (Your light)"	Slovene, English	12	29
2015	Lina Kuduzović	"Prva ljubezen"	Slovene, English^[a]	3	112

Commentators and spokespersons[]

The Slovene broadcaster, RTV SLO, sent their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in Slovene. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Slovenia. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2014.

Year(s)	Commentator	Spokesperson	Channel
2014	Bernarda Žarn	Gal Fajon	TV SLO 1
2015	Andrej Hofer	Nikola Petek	TV SLO 1
2016	Andrej Hofer	Did not participate	TV SLO 2
2017–2021	No broadcast	Did not participate	N/A

Notes and references[]

Notes[]

^ Contains one phrase in Italian.

References[]

^ Fisher, Luke James (August 20, 2014). "Slovenian participation confirmed; artist to be chosen internally". junioreurovision.tv. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
^ Juhász, Ervin (October 4, 2015). "Lina Kuduzović will represent Slovenia in Junior Eurovision!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
^ McMillen, Steve. "SLOVENIA: WITHDRAWS FROM THE JUNIOR EUROVISION SONG CONTEST". Eurovoix.com. RTVSLO.
^ Granger, Anthony (2019-06-09). "Slovenia: RTVSLO Rules Out Junior Eurovision Return Due To Cost Of Participation". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2019-06-09.

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[5] Contains one phrase in Italian.

[Slovenia-1] Fisher, Luke James (August 20, 2014). "Slovenian participation confirmed; artist to be chosen internally". junioreurovision.tv. Retrieved 20 August 2014.

[2] Juhász, Ervin (October 4, 2015). "Lina Kuduzović will represent Slovenia in Junior Eurovision!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Retrieved 2015-11-02.

[3] McMillen, Steve. "SLOVENIA: WITHDRAWS FROM THE JUNIOR EUROVISION SONG CONTEST". Eurovoix.com. RTVSLO.

[4] Granger, Anthony (2019-06-09). "Slovenia: RTVSLO Rules Out Junior Eurovision Return Due To Cost Of Participation". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2019-06-09.

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