Cypriot radio listeners will be able to follow the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 live from Vienna, with RIK Trito set to air all three shows of the contest. The third channel of CyBC has carried Eurovision for a number of years, and this time it will bring the 70th edition straight to audiences in Cyprus.
CyBC has also named Melina Karageorgiou as its commentator for the contest. She will take the booth for the fourteenth time, after first commentating in 2008, and will do so alone for the first time since the 2016 contest in Stockholm, Sweden. The move gives Cyprus a familiar voice for a year that already has a clear date circled on the calendar: Antigoni and Jalla are scheduled to perform 8th in the second semi-final on May 14.
Cyprus will be trying again in a competition it has been chasing since its debut in 1981. Its best result came in 2018, when Eleni Foureira’s Fuego finished second with 436 points. Before that, the country had three fifth-place finishes, through Anna Vissi’s Mono i agapi in 1982, Hara & Andreas Constantinou’s Mana mou in 1997 and Lisa Andreas’s Stronger Every Minute in 2004.
The live broadcasts matter because Eurovision remains one of the few annual television and radio events that can still pull a national audience across generations, and Cyprus has a long habit of treating it that way. But the story also carries its own tension: despite all those years of entries and near misses, Cyprus still holds the record for the most participations in Eurovision without a win. For now, the burden falls on Antigoni and Jalla to see whether 2026 changes that record, or adds another chapter to it.
