Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
"Let The Music Play"
Dates
Final date 2 December 2006
Host
Venue Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest, Romania
Presenter(s) Andreea Marin Bănică,
Ioana Ivan
Host broadcaster TVR
Opening act Various circus style dancers and performers including an appearance by Mihai Trăistariu
Interval act Ksenia Sitnik,
Break-dancing + traditional Romanian dancing and a remix of the last 3 Romanian participants at JESC.
Participants
Number of entries 15
Debuting countries  Portugal
 Serbia[1]
 Ukraine
Returning countries  Cyprus
Withdrawing countries  Denmark
 Latvia
 Norway
 Serbia and Montenegro
 United Kingdom
Vote
Voting system Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points None
Winning song  Russia
"Vesenniy Jazz"
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
◄2005 2007►

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fourth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged 8 to 15. On 2 December 2006, the contest was broadcast live from Bucharest, Romania making it the second time the contest had been held in a capital city. It was organised by the Romanian national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR), in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). TVR won the rights of hosting the contest over AVRO of the Netherlands (who hosted the next contest).[2] Croatia also expressed an interest in hosting this contest.[3]

The contest was won by The Tolmachevy Twins from Russia with the song "Spring Jazz".

Originally 16 countries had initially signed up for the contest but one unspecified country later dropped out.[4] Radio télévision belge de la communauté française (RTBF) of the French speaking Wallonia in Belgium left the contest this year after co-hosting the previous edition with Flemish broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT). They claimed that continuing with the contest was not in their interests financially.[5] The viewing figures for the 2005 contest for RTBF were also low. Belgium continued to be represented at the contest by VRT. The show was broadcast live in the competing countries, as well as Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Australian television channel Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) that acquired the rights for broadcasting the show, which was broadcast on 1 January 2007.

Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) of Croatia announced that they would withdraw from the 2007 edition and future contests, as otherwise they would have faced a fine from the EBU as they did not screen this year's event live and did not broadcast it on a nationally available network. Broadcasters previously had to screen the event live and on a channel available to the majority of the public however this rule was scrapped in 2007.[6]

Contents

Withdrawn countries

The Scandinavian broadcasters; DR of Denmark, Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) of Norway and Sveriges Television (SVT) of Sweden; decided to withdraw from the contest for various reasons, one being that the content put too much pressure on the participating children. Instead they staged a solely Scandinavian contest called Melodi Grand Prix Nordic in Stockholm, as they did in 2002. However, Sweden did participate, with commercial broadcaster TV4 supplying Sweden's entry. This meant that Sweden participated in both contests.

ITV, the United Kingdom broadcaster of the contest from 2003 up until and including 2005, withdrew from the contest, after they were originally given the rights to broadcast it when the BBC declined the offer. In 2003, they broadcast the contest on main channel ITV, relegating it to ITV2 for the next two years due to bad viewer ratings, before their complete withdrawal in 2006.

Latvia also withdraw, mainly due to financial reasons. They have not returned before 2010.

Serbia and Montenegro participated in the 2005 contest, but since then, Montenegro voted for independence. The EBU gave their national broadcaster, Radio televizija Crne Gore (RTCG), extra time to decide whether or not to participate, but they finally declined the invitation.

Individual entries

Results

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01  Portugal Portuguese Pedro Madeira "Deixa-me sentir" Let me feel 14 22
02  Cyprus Greek Luis Panagiotou and Christina Christofi "Agoria koritsia" (Αγορια κοριτσια) Boys and Girls 8 58
03  Netherlands Dutch Kimberly "Goed" Good 12 44
04  Romania Romanian New Star Music "Povestea mea" My story 6 80
05  Ukraine Ukrainian Nazar Slyusarchuk "Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll"
(Хлопчик рок 'н' ролл)
Rock 'n' roll boy 9 58
06  Spain Spanish Dani "Te doy mi voz" I give you my voice 4 91
07  Serbia Serbian, English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish,
Russian, Japanese[7]
Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika "Učimo strane jezike"
(Учимо стране језике)
Learning foreign languages 5 81
08  Malta English Sophie Debattista "Extra Cute" 11 48
09  Macedonia Macedonian Zana Aliu "Vljubena" (Вљубена) In love 15 14
10  Sweden Swedish Molly Sandén "Det finaste någon kan få" The best someone could get 3 116
11  Greece Greek Chloe Sofia Boleti "Den peirazei" (Δεν πειραζει) It doesn't matter 13 35
12  Belarus Russian Andrey Kunets "Noviy den" (Новый день) New day 2 129
13  Belgium Dutch Thor! "Een tocht door het donker" A journey through the dark 7 71
14  Croatia Croatian Mateo Đido "Lea" [8] 10 50
15  Russia Russian Tolmachevy Twins "Vesenniy Jazz"
Spring Jazz 1 154

Facts

Score sheet

Results
Portugal 22 7 3
Cyprus 58 3 2 3 5 3 3 3 12 6 6
Netherlands 44 5 8 2 8 6 3
Romania 80 6 8 1 4 12 4 2 6 7 7 3 2 4 2
Ukraine 58 5 2 4 6 5 4 8 1 3 8
Spain 91 7 5 7 8 6 3 1 8 8 5 7 7 1 5
Serbia 81 2 4 5 5 7 2 7 10 4 1 5 5 5 7
Malta 48 1 1 3 1 1 1 7 5 3 2 4 7
Macedonia 14 2
Sweden 116 8 7 12 7 8 4 8 10 2 6 10 10 2 10
Greece 35 12 1 7 3
Belarus 129 12 6 4 10 10 8 6 12 5 10 8 6 8 12
Belgium 71 4 3 8 6 3 5 2 6 1 1 2 4 10 4
Croatia 50 6 2 10 12 6 1 1
Russia 154 10 10 10 12 12 10 12 4 4 12 10 12 12 12
The table is ordered by appearance
All countries automatically receive 12 points

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

N. Recipient nation Voting nation
7 Russia Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine
3 Belarus Malta, Portugal, Russia
1 Croatia Macedonia
Cyprus Greece
Greece Cyprus
Romania Spain
Sweden Netherlands

Commentators

Spokespersons

References

  1. ^ Serbia had taken part, in the 2005 contest, as part of Serbia and Montenegro, but this was their first participation as an independent nation.
  2. ^ 'EBU Confirms: Romania to host Junior 2006'
  3. ^ 'Croatia and Romania want to host junior 2006'
  4. ^ 'EBU: 16 countries signed up for Junior 2006'
  5. ^ "'RTBF withdraws from Junior contest'". ESC Today. 29 November 2005. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/5219. Retrieved 2008-06-22. 
  6. ^ "ESC Today article on withdrawal of Croatia". ESC Today. 20 January 2007. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/7303. Retrieved 2008-05-03. 
  7. ^ The Serbian song contains actually only 2 lines of chorus in Serbian, while 24 lines of verses are sung in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.
  8. ^ 'Lea' is a given name and thus cannot be translated.

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