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Eurovision Song Contest 2026: Linz and Wels Also Out of the Running

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On Tuesday, Wels and Linz announced that they will not be submitting a bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Austria.

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The planned ESC application for the technology, the requirements of ORF and EBU are too complex, the costs are too high. Only Vienna and Innsbruck are still in the race

·Vienna, Austria
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The dream is over: The two largest cities of Upper Austria, Linz and Wels, have examined intensively over the past few weeks whether a joint application for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 (ESC) is possible. The aim was to bring Europe's largest music event to Upper Austria for the first time. But now there will be no application at all. As part of a comprehensive analysis by internal experts and external experts, most of the extensive requirem…

·Vienna, Austria
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The joint application of the two Upper Austrian cities Linz and Wels fails due to technical details. The exhibition halls in Wels do not meet all requirements.

The Upper Austrian cities of Linz and Wels are not being considered as host cities for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in 2026. The joint application, which had been intensively reviewed in recent weeks, failed due to specific technical requirements, according to a press release on Tuesday. The retrofitting would be too costly, explained Peter Jungreithmair, Managing Director of Wels Marketing und Touristik GmbH.

·Salzburg, Austria
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On Tuesday, Linz and Wels also took part in the game around the ESC 2026: costs are too high, technical requirements are too high.

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