Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is very similar in structure to the Eurovision Song Contest. It is for children aged between 8 and 15 (from 2007 10 to 15). The song must be written by the artist and sung in the national language of the country. The children cannot have released a commercial song.
The contest was formed after a Scandinavian contest in 2002, Melodi Grand Prix Nordic, with Denmark, Norway and Sweden as participants. Danmarks Radio had already 2001 helt a junior contest only for Denmark. The EBU picked up the idea for a junior contest, and asked Denmark to host the first real JESC.
Denmark and Norway withdrawn for 2006 with the reason that the competition is too much pressure for the children. They returned to the old MGP Nordic, but Sweden will participate with the Swedish broadcaster TV4. Another Danish broadcaster wasn't interested, as well Norway withdrew with no independent broadcaster to take over. United Kingdom's ITV experienced extremely low viewers for the contests over the past years and were not interested with continuing with it. This makes it the United Kingdom's first absence from the Eurovision Song Contest in any shape or form since 1958.
10 countries have perfect attendances: Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden.
The singing girl has been the basic logo since start, but in 2007 it will be changed.
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[edit] History
| Year | Article | Winner | Language | Artist | Song | Translation | Location |
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| 2007 | JESC 2007 | - | - | - | - | - | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2006 | JESC 2006 | Russia | Russian | The Tolmachevy Twins | Vesenniy Dzhaz | Spring Jazz | Bucharest, Romania |
| 2005 | JESC 2005 | Belarus | Russian | Ksenia Sitnik | My Vmeste | We Are Together | Hasselt, Belgium |
| 2004 | JESC 2004 | Spain | Spanish | María Isabel | Antes Muerta Que Sencilla | Better Dead Than Simple | Lillehammer, Norway |
| 2003 | JESC 2003 | Croatia | Croatian | Dino Jelusić | Ti Si Moja Prva Ljubav | You Are My First Love | Copenhagen, Denmark |
[edit] Participants
At present there are a total of 22 members of the EBU who (have) enter(ed), they are:
[edit] Debut of Nations
2003 - Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Latvia, FYR Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
2004 - France, Switzerland
2005 - Russia, Serbia and Montenegro
2006 - Portugal ,Ukraine, Serbia
2007 - Lithuania
[edit] Retreat Of Nations
2003 - None
2004 - None
2005 - France, Switzerland, Cyprus*, Poland
2006 - Norway, United Kingdom, Latvia, Denmark
* Cyprus withdrew just before the 2005 contest, because their song was called a plague. However, they were aloud to vote and will partipicate in the upcoming years.
[edit] Future
The partipicants number has decreased since its top 2004. In 2006, 15 countries compete-less than ever. In both 2005 and 2006, four countries have retreated. EBU has promised that the contest will go until at last 2007, but after that, the future is unsure. Even many Eurovision fans have criticised the show. However, there are some very possible future partipicants:
[edit] Likely future participants
All current participants of the Eurovision Song Contest are likely candidates to join the JESC at some point, but the following are ones which are more likely to participate in the near future:
- Lithuania - Despite LRT declining a participation in the 2005 and 2006 contests but have announced that they will participate in 2007.
- Ireland - It is rumoured that RTÉ may take part in next years.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - RTVBiH has broadcast the 2006 event with the prospet of taking part in 2007.
- Armenia - The Armenian broadcaster are considering joining Junior Eurovision after debut in adult contest.
- Georgia - The Georgian broadcaster stated interest to join both ESC and JESC in nearest future.
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