text: On only four occasions has the name used for the official logo of the contest not been in English or French: the Italian names  and  were used when Italy hosted the  and  contests respectively; and the Dutch name  was used when the Netherlands hosted in  and .
  Format
  Original songs representing participating countries are performed in a live television programme broadcast via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks simultaneously to all countries. A "country" as a participant is represented by one television broadcaster from that country, a member of the European Broadcasting Union, and is typically that country's national public broadcasting organisation. The programme is staged by one of the participant countries and is broadcast from an auditorium in the selected host city. Since 2008, each contest is typically formed of three live television shows held over one week: two semi-finals are held on the Tuesday and Thursday, followed by a final on the Saturday. All participating countries compete in one of the two semi-finals, except for the host country of that year's contest and the contest's biggest financial contributors known as the "Big Five"—, , ,  and the . The remaining countries are split between the two semi-finals, and the 10 highest-scoring entries in each qualify to produce 26 countries competing in the final. Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004,  and  are the only countries outside of the "Big Five" to have qualified for the final of every contest they have competed in.