United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest once again choosing which song to enter into the contest. Since 2017, the votes from a professional jury panel have been combined with the public vote to select the winner. Even though the United Kingdom was entered twice into with Cliff Richard's 1968 runner up entry "Congratulations" and Brotherhood of Man's 1976 winning song "Save Your Kisses for Me", the BBC decided not to participate in airing the event or taking part in the voting for the greatest Eurovision Song of the past fifty years, but instead aired an hour-long special programme entitled "" hosted by Terry Wogan looking back
Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 selected as the winners of the national selection. Their song for the contest, "Love Me", was released on 6 October 2017. Prior to the 2017 Contest, the Netherlands had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its first entry in 2003. The Netherlands have won the contest on one occasion: in 2009 with the song "Click Clack" performed by Ralf Mackenbach. In 2016, the Netherlands placed 8th out of 17 entries with the song "Kisses & Dancin'" performed by the girl band Kisses. On 7 June 2017, Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS announced that they would return to the