One of the important considerations around the music and presentation of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is the target audience. The mid-teen targeting of JESC means that the impact of many of the Contest’s innovations will be lost on the Carola-fuelled fans of the Adult Contest. Debbie O’Hare sets out the musical scene for the benefit of anyone who watched Barbara Dex singing live.

It’s just over two weeks until the 2014 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Malta. ESC Insight will be heading to the island of song (and our second shipyard of the year) to cover the event. Kicking off our coverage, Dr Paul Jordan looks at the contrasting views of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest across the continent.

We have new songs, drama in Denmark and updates from across the continent in this week’s ESC Insight Newsletter

ESC Insight’s Ben Robertson meets Staffan Mossige-Norheim, the man behind eight different songs to be entered online to Switzerland’s Eurovision Platform.

Everything is getting closer, Junior Eurovision is 26 days away (Adult is 215), the National Finals are starting to fill up the diary, submission periods are open, and the whole Song Contest machine is starting to catch fire for another year! Ewan rounds up the news in another Insight podcast.

Now for something a little different for the latest ‘Every Eurovision Song’ recap, as Ewan lifts out some of the more light-hearted moments from the Song Contest.