List of host cities of the ABU Song Festivals

This page is a list of cities and venues that have hosted the ABU Radio and ABU TV Song Festivals, one or more times. Future venues are shown in italics. The first venue in both the ABU Radio Song Festival 2012 and ABU TV Song Festival 2012, coincided with the 49th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. The host cities of the ABU Radio Song Festivals from 2014 onwards are elected during ABU Administrative Council meetings. Whereas the host cities of the ABU TV Song Festivals remain to coincide to take place in the host country of the ABU General Assembly meetings.[1]

ABU Radio Song Festival

Contests Country City Venue Years Date
1  South Korea[2] Seoul KBS Hall 2012 11 October 2012
 Sri Lanka[3] Colombo Stein Studios 2014 23 May 2014
 Myanmar[4] Yangon National Theatre of Yangon 2015 29 May 2015
 China[5] Beijing TBA 2016 26 April 2016

ABU TV Song Festival

Contests Country City Venue Years Date
1  South Korea[6] Seoul KBS Hall 2012 14 October 2012
 Vietnam[7] Hanoi Hanoi Opera House 2013 26 October 2013
 Macau[8] Macau Sands Theatre 2014 25 October 2014
 Turkey[9] Istanbul Istanbul Congress Center 2015 28 October 2015
 Indonesia[10] Jakarta TBA 2016 TBA October 2016

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ABU gets leaders’ backing for increased activities". ABU. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "ABU Radio Song Festival 2012". Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "ABU gets leaders’ backing for increased activities". ABU. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "ABU Radio Song Festival 2015". ABU. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Granger, Anthony (30 June 2015). "China to host ABU Radio Song Festival 2016". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "ABU Song Festival 2012". Korean Broadcasting System. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "ABU 50th General Assembly and Associated Meetings". ABU. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "3rd ABU TV Song Festival scheduled to take place in Macao 2014". escKaz.com. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  9. ↑ Granger, Anthony (20 October 2014). "ABU TV Song Festival 2015: Turkey To Host". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Granger, Anthony (6 January 2016). "ATSF16 5th ABU TV Song Festival to be held in October 2016". eurovoix-world.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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