Eurovision Song Contest 1993 Explained

Eurovision Song Contest
Year:1993
Size:250px
Final:15 May 1993
Presenters:Fionnuala Sweeney
Musdirector:Noel Kelehan
Director:Anita Notaro
Exsupervisor:Christian Clausen
Exproducer:Liam Miller
Host:Irish: [[RTÉ|Radio Telefís Éireann]]|i=unset (RTÉ)
Venue:Green Glens Arena,
Millstreet, Ireland
Winner:
""
Vote:Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Entries:25
Return:None
Map Final:Y
Qualification Show:Slovenian: [[Kvalifikacija za Millstreet]]

The Eurovision Song Contest 1993 was the 38th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 15 May 1993 at the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, Ireland. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Irish: [[RTÉ|Radio Telefís Éireann]]|i=unset (RTÉ), and presented by Fionnuala Sweeney, the contest was held in Ireland following the country's victory at the with the song "Why Me?" performed by Linda Martin.

Twenty-five countries participated in the contest, the largest yet held. Twenty-two of the twenty-three countries that had participated in the previous year's event returned, with prevented from competing following the closure of its national broadcaster and the placement of sanctions against the country as a response to the Yugoslav Wars. In response to an increased interest in participation from former Eastern Bloc countries following the collapse of communist regimes, three spaces in the event were allocated to first-time participating countries, which would be determined through a qualifying competition. Held in April 1993 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Slovenian: [[Kvalifikacija za Millstreet]] featured entries from seven countries and resulted in the entries from the former Yugoslav republics of, and progressing to the contest in Millstreet.

For the second year in a row, the winner was with the song "In Your Eyes", written by Jimmy Walsh and performed by Niamh Kavanagh. The,,, and completed the top five, with the United Kingdom achieving their second consecutive runner-up placing. Ireland achieved their fifth victory in the contest, matching the overall record held by France and, and joined, Luxembourg and as countries with wins in successive contests.

Location

The 1993 contest took place in Millstreet, Ireland, following the country's victory at the with the song "Why Me?", performed by Linda Martin. It was the fourth time that Ireland had hosted the contest, having previously staged the event in, and, with all previous events held in the country's capital city Dublin.[1] [2]

The Green Glens Arena, an indoor arena used primarily for equestrian events, was chosen as the contest venue, with its owner Noel C Duggan offering the use of the venue for free, as well as pledging a further from local businesses for the staging of the event. Individuals within RTÉ, including the organisation's Director-General Joe Barry, were interested in staging the event outside of Dublin for the first time, and alongside Dublin RTÉ production teams scouted locations in rural Ireland in the months following Ireland's win. Although the contest had previously been held in smaller towns, such as Harrogate, an English town of 70,000 people which staged the, with a population of 1,500, Millstreet became the smallest settlement to stage the event at that time and continues to hold the record .[3] The arena would have an audience of around 3,500 during the contest. The choice of Millstreet and the Green Glens Arena to stage the contest was met with some ridicule, with BBC journalist Nicholas Witchell referring to the venue as a "cowshed", however Millstreet had won out over more conventional locations, including Dublin and Galway, due to the facilities available in the Green Glens Arena and the town's local community which were hugely enthusiastic about the event being staged in their area.[4]

Due to the small size of Millstreet, delegations were primarily based in surrounding settlements, including Killarney and other towns in counties Cork and Kerry.[5] Alongside Millstreet itself, Killarney and Cork City held receptions for the competing delegates during the week of the contest, at the Great Southern Hotel in Killarney and Cork's City Hall, the latter hosted by the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

Participating countries

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Eurovision Song Contest regularly featured over twenty participating countries in each edition, and by 1992 an increasing number of countries had begun expressing an interest in joining the event for the first time. This came as a result of revolutions among many European countries that led to the fall of communist regimes and the formation of liberal democratic government among existing states and newly sovereign countries formed from entities within the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.[6] In an effort to incorporate these new countries into the contest, the contest organisers the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) raised the maximum number of participating countries to twenty-fivethe highest number yet seen in the contestcreating space for three new countries to participate alongside twenty-two of the twenty-three countries that had participated in the . which had participated in the contest since was unable to participate as its EBU member broadcaster [[Yugoslav Radio Television|Jugoslovenska radio-televizija]]|i=unset (JRT) was disbanded in 1992 and its successor organisations [[Radio Television of Serbia|Radio-televizija Srbije]]|i=unset (RTS) and [[Radio and Television of Montenegro|Radio-televizija Crne Gore]]|i=unset (RTCG) were barred from joining the EBU due to sanctions against the country as part of the Yugoslav Wars.[7]

As a temporary solution for the 1993 contest, a qualifying round was organised to determine the three countries which participate in the final for the first time. Subsequently, for the, a relegation system was introduced which would bar the lowest-scoring countries from participating in the following year's event. At the running order draw, held in December 1992 at the National Concert Hall in Dublin and hosted by Pat Kenny and Linda Martin, the three new countries were represented as Countries A, B and C, corresponding with the countries that placed first, second and third in the qualifying competition respectively.[8] Entitled Slovenian: [[Kvalifikacija za Millstreet]], the qualifying round took place on 3 April 1993 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Initially broadcasters in as many as fourteen countries registered an interest in competing in the event, however only seven countries eventually submitted entries, representing,,,,, and . Ultimately the entries from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia were chosen to progress to the contest proper in Millstreet; as constituent republics of SFR Yugoslavia, representatives from all three countries had previously competed in the contest.[9]

A number of artists who had previously participated in the contest were featured among the performers at this event, either as the main performing artist or as backing performers: Tony Wegas represented for a second consecutive year, and among his backing performers was Gary Lux, who had previously represented Austria in the contest on three occasions, as a member of the group Westend in and as a solo artist in and ;[10] Katri Helena made a second contest appearance for, having previously competed in ; 's Tommy Seebach, having previously competed in 1979 as a solo artist and in alongside Debbie Cameron, competed in the 1993 contest as part of the Seebach Band; and Humphrey Campbell, who had represented the in the previous year's event, returned as a backing singer for the Dutch entrant Ruth Jacott.[11]

+ Entires which failed to progress from Slovenian: [[Kvalifikacija za Millstreet]]
CountryBroadcasterArtistSongLanguageSongwriter(s)
ETVJanika Sillamaa"Estonian: Muretut meelt ja südametuld|i=unset"Estonian
MTVAndrea Szulák"Hungarian: Árva reggel|i=unset"Hungarian
TVRDida Drăgan"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Nu pleca|i=unset"Romanian
STVElán"Slovak: Amnestia na neveru|i=unset"Slovak

Production and format

The Eurovision Song Contest 1993 was produced by the Irish public broadcaster Irish: [[RTÉ|Radio Telefís Éireann]]|i=unset (RTÉ). Liam Miller served as executive producer, Kevin Linehan served as producer, Anita Notaro served as director, Alan Farquharson served as designer, and Noel Kelehan served as musical director, leading the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.[14] A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance, with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.

Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented.[15] [16] A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance, and all participants were required to have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest.[17] Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental-only backing tracks; however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers.[18]

The results of the 1993 contest were determined through the same scoring system as had first been introduced in : each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry.[19] The points awarded by each country were determined by an assembled jury of sixteen individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, between men and women, and by age. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and ten votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country's performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded. In any cases where two or more songs in the top ten received the same number of votes, a show of hands by all jury members was used to determine the final placing.

The 1993 contest was at the time the largest outside broadcast production ever undertaken by RTÉ, and the broadcaster was reported to have spent over on producing the event. In order to stage the event Millstreet and the Green Glens Arena underwent major infrastructure improvements, which were led by local groups and individuals.[20] The floor area within the arena had to be dug out in order to create additional height to facilitate the stage and equipment, extra phone lines had to be installed, and the town's railway line and station required an extension at an extra cost of over .[21]

The stage design for the Millstreet contest featured the largest stage yet constructed for the event, covering 2,500ft² (232) of translucent material which was illuminated from below by lighting strips. A mirror image of the triangular shaped stage was suspended from above, and a slanted background created a distorted perspective for the viewer. A hidden doorway featured in the centre of the stage, which was used by the presenter at the beginning of the show, and by the winning artist as they re-entered the arena following the broadcast.[22] The contest logo, which was publicly presented in February 1993, was designed by Conor Cassidy and was adapted from aspects of the coat of arms of County Cork.[23]

Rehearsals for the participating artists began on 10 May 1993. Two technical rehearsals were conducted for each participating delegation in the week approaching the contest, with countries rehearsing in the order in which they would perform. The first rehearsals were held on 10 and 11 May, consisting of a 15-minute stage-call for the setting up of the stage with instruments and equipment and to brief the orchestra, followed by a 25-minute rehearsal, with the second rehearsals held on 12 and 13 May comprising a 10-minute stage call and 20-minute rehearsal. Following each first rehearsal, there was an opportunity for delegates to review their rehearsals on video monitors, as well as to take part in a 25-minute press conference. Three dress rehearsals were held with all artists, two held in the afternoon and evening of 14 May and one final rehearsal in the afternoon of 15 May. An audience was present for the second dress rehearsal on the evening of 12 May, which was highly attended by the local population of Millstreet.[24]

Contest overview

The contest took place on 15 May 1993 at 20:00 (IST) and lasted 3 hours and 1 minute. The show was presented by the Irish journalist Fionnuala Sweeney.[25]

The contest was opened by an animated sequence designed by Gary Keenan and inspired by Celtic mythology, set to Irish traditional music by composers Ronan Johnston and Shea Fitzgerald and featuring uilleann pipes player Davy Spillane.[26] [27] The interval act comprised performances by previous Eurovision winners Linda Martin, reprising her winning song from the "Why Me?", and Johnny Logan, performing the song "Voices (Are Calling)" with choirs from the Cork School of Music and local children of Millstreet.[28] The trophy awarded to the winners was crafted by Waterford Crystal and was presented by Linda Martin.

The winner was represented by the song "In Your Eyes", written by Jimmy Walsh and performed by Niamh Kavanagh.[29] This marked Ireland's fifth contest win, putting them level with and for the country with the most wins, and its second win in a row, matching the same feat previously achieved by (and), Luxembourg (and) and (and).} The finished in second place for the second year in a row, and for a record-extending fourteenth time overall.[30]

+ Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1993[31]
CountryArtistSongPointsPlace
1"Italian: Sole d'Europa|i=unset"4512
2, Öztürk Baybora and Serter"Turkish: Esmer Yarim|i=unset"1021
3Münchener Freiheit"German: Viel zu weit|i=unset"1818
4"French: Moi, tout simplement|i=unset"1483
5Seebach Band"Danish: [[Under stjernerne på himlen]]|i=unset"922
6"Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ellada, hora tou fotos|i=unset"649
7Barbara"Dutch; Flemish: Iemand als jij|i=unset"325
8"This Time"698
9Inga"Icelandic: Þá veistu svarið|i=unset"4213
10"Maria Magdalena"3214
11Anabela"Portuguese: A cidade até ser dia|i=unset"6010
12"Mama Corsica"1214
13Arvingarna"Eloise"897
14"In Your Eyes"1871
15Modern Times"French: Donne-moi une chance|i=unset"1120
161X Band"Slovenian: Tih deževen dan|i=unset"922
17Katri Helena"Finnish: Tule luo|i=unset"2017
18Fazla"Bosnian: Sva bol svijeta|i=unset"2716
19Sonia"Better the Devil You Know"1642
20"Dutch; Flemish: Vrede|i=unset"926
21Put"Don't Ever Cry"3115
22"Spanish; Castilian: Hombres|i=unset"5811
23Zymboulakis and Van Beke"Greek, Modern (1453-);: Mi stamatas|i=unset"1719
24"Hebrew: Shiru|i=unset"424
25"Norwegian: Alle mine tankar|i=unset"1205

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson, connected to the contest venue via telephone lines and responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country.[32] Known spokespersons at the 1993 contest are listed below.

Detailed voting results

Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries. The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in ascending order. However, due to a technical problem with the telephone connection, Malta, which had been scheduled to be the eighth country to vote, was passed over and instead voted last. The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below.

+ Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1993[37] [38]
scope="col"
Italy45 1 10 5 10 8 2 2 7
Turkey10 1 2 1 6
Germany18 8 2 3 4 1
Switzerland148 10 12 10 7 8 4 6 1 12 6 7 12 8 4 10 8 2 3 6 4 3 5
Denmark9 1 3 5
Greece64 2 2 2 7 6 5 8 12 7 7 6
Belgium3 3
Malta69 7 5 4 7 5 5 4 2 2 4 2 4 6 4 4 1 3
Iceland42 4 4 1 7 1 5 2 7 5 2 2 2
Austria32 4 1 3 3 6 12 3
Portugal60 1 1 2 2 5 8 2 4 2 1 12 12 3 5
France121 7 4 12 3 8 7 12 8 10 6 4 1 4 3 8 10 8 6
Sweden89 8 8 7 10 7 10 4 5 6 7 7 10
Ireland187 12 1 5 12 6 6 2 3 8 6 10 12 7 12 3 8 12 10 6 10 7 5 12 12
Luxembourg11 1 10
Slovenia9 4 3 1 1
Finland20 3 8 5 2 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina27 3 12 1 4 3 4
United Kingdom164 1 8 6 5 8 12 12 12 7 6 10 8 8 10 5 3 4 10 5 4 12 8
Netherlands92 6 6 7 7 6 3 5 12 7 10 3 7 10 3
Croatia31 3 4 5 8 1 6 4
Spain58 5 6 5 2 2 10 6 7 5 1 1 8
Cyprus17 2 10 5
Israel4 3 1
Norway120 10 10 10 12 6 10 8 5 1 3 12 7 6 12 8

12 points

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold. Ireland received the maximum score of 12 points from seven of the voting countries, with the United Kingdom receiving four sets of 12 points, Norway and Switzerland receiving three sets of maximum scores each, France and Portugal two sets each, and Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece and the Netherlands each receiving one maximum score.

+ Distribution of 12 points awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993
N.ContestantNation(s) giving 12 points
7 ,,,,,,
4,,,
3,,
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2,
,
1

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

+ Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
CountryBroadcasterChannel(s)Commentator(s)
SBSSBS TV[73]
ETV[74]
STVSTV1
MTVMTV1István Vágó[75]
TVPTVP1Artur Orzech and [76] [77]
RTRRTR[78]
STV[79]
RTSRTS B2[80]

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  47. News: Jan Hofer sagt "Tschau" zur Tagesschau . Jan Hofer says "goodbye" to the Tagesschau . 25 November 2022 . . 14 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221125104935/https://www.egofm.de/blog/freizeit/jan-hofer-verlaesst-die-tagesschau . 25 November 2022 . de . live.
  48. News: Co vysílají sousedé 15. 5.—21. 5. – Bayern 1 – /So/ . What the neighbours are broadcasting 15/05—21/05 – Bayern 1 – /Sat/ . 19 May 2024 . . 10 May 1993 . 21 . 18 . cs . .
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  59. News: Van Putten . Gerard . Engelsen zingen toontje lager na Ierse woede over 'joke' . English tone it down after Irish anger over 'joke' . 26 October 2022 . . nl . 15 May 1993 . 8 . NOS-commentator Willem van Beusekom, die een reputatie heeft te verdedigen als Songfestival-freak, denkt dat ook, al wijst hij nadrukkerlijk op de concurrentie van Frankrijk, Zweden en Engeland. . NOS commentator Willem van Beusekom, who has a reputation to defend as a Eurovision fan, also thinks so, although he emphatically points to the competition from France, Sweden and England. . 26 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221026092115/https://leiden.courant.nu/issue/LD/1993-05-15/edition/0/page/8 . live.
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  64. News: Spored za soboto . Schedule for Saturday . 26 October 2023 . Delo

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  69. News: L'Eurocanzone in cronaca diretta dall'Irlanda . Eurovision live commentary from Ireland . 12 December 2022 . . 15 May 1993 . Lugano, Switzerland . 31 . it . . 12 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221212123149/https://www.sbt.ti.ch/quotidiani-public-pdf/main_part.php?fullscreen=true&paper=gdp&day=15&month=5&year=1993&page=31&papername=Giornale%20del%20Popolo&allpages=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32 . live.
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  71. News: Eurovision Song Contest – BBC Radio 2 . 14 November 2022 . . 15 May 1993 . . 14 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221114164049/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f352c113eeb148cab38debc10f5b58c0 . live.
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  75. News: TV – szombat május 15. . TV – Saturday 15 May . 23 July 2022 . Rádió és TeleVízió újság . 10 May 1993 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220723121234/https://archivum.mtva.hu/news_archive/item/NEWS-SVVSNHA5RjVJR3VZWDJ1MzNaVkFGQTJ5ZWxGMXdWbGs0VUI4S3MzS1FKZz0 . 23 July 2022 . 46 . hu . live . MTVA Archívum.
  76. News: Program telewizyjny . Television programme . 15 December 2022 . Gazeta Jarocińska . 14 May 1993 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221215083524/https://wbc.poznan.pl/Content/316769/download/ . 15 December 2022 . 22 . pl . live.
  77. Web site: Marek Sierocki i Aleksander Sikora skomentują Eurowizję! Co za duet! . Marek Sierocki and Aleksander Sikora will comment on Eurovision! What a duo! . pomponik.pl . 21 November 2022 . To nie pierwszy raz, kiedy konkurs skomentują dwie osoby. W latach 1992-1993 za sterami zasiedli Artur Orzech i Maria Szabłowska. . This is not the first time that two people will comment on the competition. In 1992-1993, Artur Orzech and Maria Szabłowska sat at the helm. . https://web.archive.org/web/20210430180839/https://www.pomponik.pl/plotki/news-marek-sierocki-i-aleksander-sikora-skomentuja-eurowizje-co-z,nId,5203394 . 30 April 2021 . pl . 30 April 2021 . live.
  78. News: Неделя телевизионного экрана . Weekly television screen . 27 October 2022 . . 7 May 1993 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210911152651/http://tvp.netcollect.ru/tvps/huhltgkcfylw.pdf . 11 September 2021 . 6 . ru . live.
  79. News: neděle 16. 5. – Zahraniční televize – Slovensko – STV 2 . Sunday 16/05 – Foreign television – Slovakia – STV 2 . 30 May 2024 . . 3 May 1993 . 20 . 14 . cs . .
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