Antigoni Buxton leads RIK Trito's Eurovision 2026 live coverage
antigoni buxton will be on Cyprus's Eurovision 2026 airwaves through RIK Trito, which will carry all three shows live from Vienna. Melina Karageorgiou is back as CyBC's commentator for the 70th edition, and she will do it alone for the first time since 2016.
RIK Trito is the third channel of CyBC, and it has aired the contest for a number of years. For listeners in Cyprus, that means the full run of the competition will again be available live on radio, not only the semi-finals that usually drive local attention.
Karageorgiou's fourteenth contest
Karageorgiou will commentate on Eurovision for the fourteenth time, having first taken the role in 2008. The return to a solo booth is the sharpest operational change in CyBC's setup, because her last solo assignment came at Stockholm in 2016.
That shift gives the broadcast a simpler sound and puts one voice back at the center of Cyprus's coverage. In practice, it also makes Karageorgiou the main on-air guide for viewers who want the contest handled without a second commentator sharing the booth.
Antigoni and Jalla on May 14
Cyprus will be represented this year by Antigoni and Jalla, who will perform 8th in the second semi-final on May 14. That slot matters for local listeners because RIK Trito's live feed will let them follow the entry in real time rather than waiting for highlights later.
Cyprus debuted in Eurovision in 1981 and still holds the record for the most participations without a win. Its best finish remains Eleni Foureira's second place in 2018 with 436 points, after three earlier fifth-place results in 1982, 1997, and 2004.
Cyprus still chases a first win
The 2018 result remains the benchmark, and it is the standard that every later Cypriot entry has been measured against. For this year's broadcast, the useful takeaway is simple: listeners get the full contest live, the same commentator returns, and Antigoni's semi-final run will arrive in a format CyBC has already chosen to streamline.
