Yesterday the fourth heat of the Bulgarian selection 'Be a star' for Eurovision 2009 was broadcasted by BNT, the Bulgarian broadcaster.

Three songs out of five made it to the next level of the selection.

TRT, the Turkish broadcaster, presented officially earlier today Hadise in a press conference as the Turkish participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

Present was İbrahim Şahin, the TRT director, who stated that they won't press Hadise and that she is free to choose song, language, outfit and partners.

LRT, the Lithuanian broadcaster, extends the deadline for song submission until the 5th of December.

Composers and writers have already submitted their songs, but due to lack of time, they submitted demos in low quality. That's why the broadcaster was asked to extend the dates in order to have more time to prepaire.

De Toppers, the male trio which was announced in middle September to represent The Netherlands in ESC 2009, seem that have internal problems.

De Toppers are aparted from Gerard Joling, Rene Froger and Gordon. Gerard at first has a contract problem with SBS channel, which does not let him to do 'Op weg naar Mosku' for the public broadcaster TROS.