Overview
- “Vienna Calling – Wer singt für Österreich?” airs live on ORF 1 at 20:15 on 20 February with 12 acts competing.
- Studio commentators are Elton, Switzerland’s 2019 fourth‑place finisher Luca Hänni, and Austrian cabaret artist Caroline Athanasiadis.
- The trio will provide context and background without awarding points, with results decided by an international jury and the television audience.
- Alice Tumler and Austria’s 2018 Eurovision entrant Cesár Sampson will host the show.
- Elton called the invitation an “unbelievable honor” and joked that Austria might cheer a “really good second place behind Germany.”