Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Explained

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Year:2006
Theme:Let the Music Play
Final:2 December 2006
Presenters:Andreea Marin Bănică,
Ioana Ivan
Director:Dan Manoliu
Exsupervisor:Svante Stockselius
Exproducer:Irina Radu
Host:Televiziunea Română (TVR)
Venue:Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest, Romania
Winner:
"Vesenniy Jazz"
Vote:Each country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Entries:15
Debut:

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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fourth edition of the annual 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).

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. This was Serbia's first participation in a Eurovision event as an independent nation. The contest was won by The Tolmachevy Twins from with the song "Vesenniy Jazz".

Location

Bidding phase and host selection

On 5 October 2005, it was confirmed that TVR had won the rights of hosting the contest over AVRO of the Netherlands (who would later be announced as the host broadcaster of the next contest).[1] Croatia also expressed an interest in hosting this contest.[2]

Venue

Polyvalent Hall from Bucharest (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Sala Polivalentă din București) is a multi-purpose hall in Bucharest, Romania, located in the Tineretului Park. It is used for concerts, indoor sports such as tennis, gymnastics, dance, handball, volleyball, basketball, weightlifting, combat sports and professional wrestling. The hall was opened in 1974 but has since been renovated. It has a maximum seating capacity of 12,000 for concerts and 6,000 for handball.

Participating countries

On 16 May 2006, the EBU released the official list of participants with 15 competing countries.[3] Originally 16 countries had initially signed up for the contest but one unspecified country later dropped out.[4] Portugal, Serbia (for the first time as an independent country after the participation in 2005 contest as part of Serbia and Montenegro) and Ukraine made their debut, while Cyprus returned after a one-year absence.

Two broadcasters withdrew from the contest: 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), claimed that continuing with the contest was not in their interests financially.[5] Belgium continued to be represented at the contest by Flemish broadcaster VRT. Subsequently also Sveriges Television (SVT) of Sweden decided to withdraw from the contest for focusing on organisation of the MGP Nordic in Stockholm; the country continued to be represented at the contest by commercial broadcaster TV4.

Prior to the event, a compilation album featuring all the songs from the 2006 contest, along with karaoke versions, was put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by Universal Music Group in November 2006.

Participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006[6] !Country!Broadcaster!Artist!Song!Language!Songwriter(s)
BTRCAndrey Kunets"Russian: Noviy den|i=unset" (Russian: Новый день)RussianAndrey Kunets
VRTThor!"Dutch; Flemish: Een tocht door het donker|i=unset"DutchThor Salden
HRTMateo Đido"Lea"CroatianMateo Đido
CyBCLuis Panagiotou and Christina Christofi"Greek, Modern (1453-);: Agoria koritsia|i=unset" (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αγόρια κορίτσια)Greek
ERT"Greek, Modern (1453-);: Den peirazei|i=unset" (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Δεν πειράζει)Greek
MRTZana Aliu"Macedonian: Vljubena|i=unset" (Macedonian: Вљубена)MacedonianZana Aliu
PBSSophie Debattista"Extra Cute"EnglishSophie Debattista
AVROKimberly Nieuwenhuis"Dutch; Flemish: Goed|i=unset"DutchKimberly Nieuwenhuis
RTPPedro Madeira"Portuguese: Deixa-me sentir|i=unset"Portuguese
TVRNew Star Music"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Povestea mea|i=unset"RomanianNew Star Music
VGTRKTolmachevy Twins"Vesenniy Jazz"Russian
RTS"Serbian: Učimo strane jezike|i=unset" (Serbian: Учимо стране језике)Serbian, English
TVEDani Fernández"Spanish; Castilian: Te doy mi voz|i=unset"SpanishDani Fernández
TV4Molly Sandén"Swedish: Det finaste någon kan få|i=unset"SwedishMolly Sandén
NTUNazar Slyusarchuk"Ukrainian: Khlopchyk|i=unset Rock 'n' Roll" (Ukrainian: Хлопчик рок н рол)UkrainianNazar Slyusarchuk

Format

Presenters

The presenters in charge of conducting the event were Andreea Marin and Ioana Ivan,[7] who also appeared in the green room. Marin has been a presenter at the host broadcaster since 1994 and achieved national fame as the host of Surprize, Surprize, the Romanian version of British light entertainment show Surprise Surprise, on TVR1.[8] Marin has twice appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest, reading out the Romanian televote results in and .[9] Ivan is an actress and television personality and the first child presenter of the event.[10]

Contest overview

The event took place on 2 December 2006 at 21:15 EET (20:15 CET). Fifteen countries participated, with the running order published on October 2006. All the countries competing were eligible to vote by televote. Russia won with 154 points, with Belarus, Sweden, Spain, and Serbia, completing the top five. Malta, the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, and Macedonia occupied the bottom five positions.[11]

The show was opened by various circus style dancers and performers including fifteen children, champions from the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, plus characters from the Bucharest State Circus and an on-stage appearance by Mihai Trăistariu, dressed as Count Dracula and was followed by the traditional flag parade introducing the 15 participating countries. The interval act included a performance by last year's winner Ksenia Sitnik, a "fight" between street dance and traditional Romanian dance in addition to a remix of songs by the last three Romanian participants at the contest.

CountryArtistSongPointsPlace
1Pedro Madeira"Portuguese: Deixa-me sentir|i=unset"2214
2Luis Panagiotou and Christina Christofi "Greek, Modern (1453-);: Agoria koritsia|i=unset"588
3Kimberly Nieuwenhuis"Dutch; Flemish: Goed|i=unset"4412
4New Star Music"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Povestea mea|i=unset"806
5Nazar Slyusarchuk"Ukrainian: Khlopchyk|i=unset Rock 'n' Roll"589
6Dani Fernández"Spanish; Castilian: Te doy mi voz|i=unset"904
7"Serbian: Učimo strane jezike|i=unset"815
8Sophie Debattista"Extra Cute"4811
9Zana Aliu"Macedonian: Vljubena|i=unset"1415
10"Swedish: Det finaste någon kan få|i=unset"1163
11"Greek, Modern (1453-);: Den peirazei|i=unset"3513
12Andrey Kunets "Russian: Noviy den|i=unset"1292
13"Dutch; Flemish: Een tocht door het donker|i=unset"717
14Mateo Đido "Lea"5010
15Tolmachevy Twins"Vesenniy Jazz"1541

Spokespersons

  1. Joana Galo Costa
  2. George Ioannidies
  3. Tess Gaerthe
  4. Andrea Nastase
  5. Assol
  6. Lucía
  7. Milica Stanišić
  8. Jack Curtis
  9. Denis Dimoski
  10. Amy Diamond
  11. Alexandros Chountas
  12. Liza Anton-Baychuk
  13. Sander Cliquet
  14. Lorena Jelusić
  15. Roman Kerimov

Detailed voting results

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Portugal22 7 3
Cyprus58 3 2 3 5 3 3 3 12 6 6
Netherlands44 5 8 2 8 6 3
Romania80 6 8 1 4 12 4 2 6 7 7 3 2 4 2
Ukraine58 5 2 4 6 5 4 8 1 3 8
Spain90 7 5 7 8 6 3 1 8 8 5 7 7 1 5
Serbia81 2 4 5 5 7 2 7 10 4 1 5 5 5 7
Malta48 1 1 3 1 1 1 7 5 3 2 4 7
Macedonia14 2
Sweden116 8 7 12 7 8 4 8 10 2 6 10 10 2 10
Greece35 12 1 7 3
Belarus129 12 6 4 10 10 8 6 12 5 10 8 6 8 12
Belgium71 4 3 8 6 3 5 2 6 1 1 2 4 10 4
Croatia50 6 2 10 12 6 1 1
Russia154 10 10 10 12 12 10 12 4 4 12 10 12 12 12

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received. All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting to ensure that no country finished with nul points.

N.ContestantNation(s) giving 12 points
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Other countries

For a country to be eligible for potential participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, it needs to be an active member of the EBU. It is currently unknown whether the EBU issue invitations of participation to all 56 active members like they do for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Broadcasts

Country! scope="col"
Broadcaster(s)Commentator(s)
BTRCDenis Kurian
VRTIlse Van Hoecke and Jelle Cleymans
HRTElan Nikk
CyBCKyriakos Pastides
ERTRenia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras
MTV 1Milanka Rašik
PBSValerie Vella
AVROSipke Jan Bousema
RTPIsabel Angelino
TVR1Ioana Isopecu and Alexandru Nagy
RTROlga Shelest
RTS2Duška Vučinić-Lučić[16]
TVEFernando Argenta and Lucho
TV4Adam Alsing
NTUTimur Miroshnychenko[17]
Country! scope="col"
Broadcaster(s)Commentator(s)
RTVAUnknown
SBS (1 January 2007)
BHRTUnknown
IBA (8 December 2007)[18]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 'EBU Confirms: Romania to host Junior 2006'. 2 August 2018. ESCToday.
  2. Web site: Exclusive! 'Croatia and Romania want to host junior 2006'. https://web.archive.org/web/20061116054119/http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/3231. dead. 15 October 2004. November 16, 2006. ESCToday.
  3. Web site: 16 May 2006 . Junior 2006: 15 countries signed up - ESCToday.com . 11 June 2023.
  4. Web site: 'EBU: 16 countries signed up for Junior 2006' . 2 August 2018.
  5. Web site: 29 November 2005 . 'RTBF withdraws from Junior contest' . 2008-06-22 . ESC Today.
  6. Web site: Participants of Bucharest 2006 - Junior Eurovision Song Contest . 2023-06-11 . junioreurovision.tv.
  7. Web site: Eurovision JESC Press Conference & Interview with hosts. ESCToday.com. Stella. Floras. November 29, 2006. 13 December 2022.
  8. Web site: Cine e cea mai de succes Carierista? . Amelie.ro . 2013-11-06.
  9. Web site: Eurovision Andreea Marin will welcome europe. ESCToday.com. Benny. Royston. October 17, 2006. 13 December 2022.
  10. Web site: Eurovision Exclusive: The singing logo is the co-host!!!. ESCToday.com. Benny. Royston. November 6, 2006. 13 December 2022.
  11. Web site: Final of Bucharest 2006 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210529112102/https://junioreurovision.tv/event/bucharest-2006/final . 29 May 2021 . 29 May 2021 . European Broadcasting Union.
  12. Web site: Results of the Final of Bucharest 2006 . European Broadcasting Union . 29 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210529112103/https://junioreurovision.tv/event/bucharest-2006/final/results . 29 May 2021 . live.
  13. Web site: 2005-07-22 . Eurovision 2023 Monaco plans Junior participation in 2006 - ESCToday.com . 2023-06-11 . en-US.
  14. Web site: Junior Eurovision Song Contest . https://web.archive.org/web/20170629015252/http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Junior_Eurovision_Song_Contest . 29 June 2017 . UKGameshows.
  15. Web site: Kuipers . Michael . 20 April 2008 . Junior Eurovision 2008: United Kingdom to return to JESC? . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427070331/https://esctoday.com/11163/junior_eurovision_2008_united_kingdom_to_return_to_jesc/ . 27 April 2014 . ESCToday.
  16. News: TV program – subota 2. decembar . Television – Saturday 2 December . 30 June 2024 . . 2 December 1986 . . 7 . sr-Latn . Pretraživa digitalna biblioteka . 30 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240630112059/https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp%7Cissue:UB_00064_20061202%7Cpage:7 . live .
  17. Web site: Telekritika. 5 December 2006 . http://www.telekritika.ua/teleprogram/2006-12-05/7894 . uk:«Дитяче Євробачення» як взірець для дорослого . 2008-05-03 . uk.
  18. Web site: Eurovision Israel getting into the JESC spirit. 22 November 2007. ESC Today. 2 August 2018.