The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world’s most complex and high-profile live broadcast productions. The 70th edition of the event took place in May in Vienna.
Returning for the eighth consecutive year, Disguise and Creative Technology continue their collaboration on this beloved event. Disguise’s GX 3 media servers deliver high-performance playback, supporting the production’s shift toward a more LED-driven stage design, while also optimizing workflows for IP-VFC. The setup has been carefully designed to support the scale and flexibility required for Eurovision’s dynamic staging and fast-paced broadcast environment.
In parallel with the hardware deployment, Disguise has worked closely with Creative Technology to refine the Disguise IP-VFC performance and workflows for large-scale broadcast environments. Eurovision 2026 was one of the first major live broadcast productions to deploy the latest IP-VFC firmware update, marking an important milestone for Disguise’s ST 2110 workflow technology. Built for the demands of complex live productions, the new IP-VFC release delivers significant stability and performance enhancements for GX 3 servers, helping support resilient, low-latency video distribution across Eurovision’s expansive LED and broadcast infrastructure.
“Eurovision always succeeds in raising the bar creatively and technically,” comments Niklas Ljung, Group Technical Director at Creative Technology. “This year, the scale and flexibility of the LED environment is a key part of that ambition. Working with Disguise, we’ve been able to refine our workflows and build a system that supports both the creative vision and the reliability demands of a live broadcast of this magnitude.”
With more than 35 broadcasters covering the event and a global audience that regularly exceeds 160 million viewers, Eurovision remains as much a showcase for broadcast technology as it is a celebration of music. Partners, including Megapixel, providing video processing solutions, and ROE Visual, supplying the LED displays, play a key role in powering the technical infrastructure behind this year’s show.
