Basel 2025: Everything you need to know!🇨🇭 This afternoon, at a special press conference, Swiss broadcaster SRG SSR revealed exciting details about Basel 2025, including when tickets will go on sale plus the stage design and visual/audio identity of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest. Watch the new Basel 2025 theme in action! 🇨🇭 We have a theme! Inspired by the Swiss tradition of direct democracy, which revolves around listening and dialogue, Art Director Artur Deyneuve chose 'listening' as the central guiding theme of Basel 2025, calling it 'Unity Shapes Love'. Deyneuve says: "If we listen to one another, we find love."  🥰 This message will also be conveyed visually through the iconic Eurovision heart symbol, which stands for dialogue, unity and the unifying power of music. Florian Wieder oversees the Eurovision stage design for an eighth time, and for Basel has taken inspiration from the epic Swiss mountains and the country's linguistic diversity. Reto Peritz and Moritz Stadler, the Contest's Co-Executive Producers are enthusiastic about the unmistakably Swiss design: "In Florian Wieder, we have a Stage Designer on board who is a creative visionary and who knows Switzerland like the back of his hand. He has succeeded in creating a 'signature stage', which will forever be associated with Eurovision in Switzerland."  Read all about the theme and stage designs → Register for tickets now! 🎟️ Registration for tickets is open NOW and closes at midnight on Friday 10 January 2025.  The first ticket sale period starts on Wednesday 29 January 2025, a day after the Semi-Final Draw. The prices for the various shows and categories will range from CHF 40 to CHF 350 but you must be registered to be in with a chance of purchasing a ticket. Register for Eurovision Song Contest 2025 tickets now → Switzerland in Eurovision 🇨🇭 Switzerland hosted and won the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano, back in 1956. It remains the only Contest where competitors were invited to perform two songs instead of one. Lys Assia triumphed with the French language song Refrain but it is unknown how her second song, the German language Das alte Karussell, performed with jurors as the points were never revealed.   A second Swiss win happened in Dublin 1988 when a relatively unknown Canadian took the crown in a nail-biting voting sequence; Céline Dion pipped the United Kingdom’s Scott Fitzgerald to victory by a single point with her ballad Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi. It would take another 36 years for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) to find their third champion; Nemo won Malmö 2024 with their song The Code, which tells the story of coming to terms with their non-binary identity. Here's everything you need to know about Switzerland → ....and finally... We can reveal that in addition to the Grand Final at the St. Jakobshalle, there will also be an 'Arena Plus' public viewing area happening on the evening of Saturday 17 May. Basel's legendary football stadium St. Jakob Park (known locally as 'Joggeli') will play host to the big event. As well as screening the Grand Final, the evening also promises an extensive programme of entertainment. Further details will be announced in due course. Read more about the Arena Plus event →