Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

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).[1]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Let the Music Play
Dates
Final2 December 2006
Host
VenueSala Polivalentă, Bucharest, Romania
Presenter(s)Andreea Marin Bănică,
Ioana Ivan
Directed byDan Manoliu
Executive supervisorSvante Stockselius
Executive producerIrina Radu
Host broadcasterTeleviziunea Română (TVR)
Websitejunioreurovision.tv/event/bucharest-2006
Participants
Number of entries15
Debuting countries Portugal
 Serbia[lower-alpha 1]
 Ukraine
Returning countries Cyprus
Non-returning countries Denmark
 Latvia
 Norway
 Serbia and Montenegro
 United Kingdom
Participation map
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         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2006
Vote
Voting systemEach country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul pointsNone
Winning song Russia
"Vesenniy Jazz"

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 Russia with the song "Vesenniy Jazz".

Location
Further information on the host city: Bucharest
Locations of the bidding countries. The eliminated countries are marked in red. The chosen host country is marked in blue.

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 hosted the next contest).[1] Croatia also expressed an interest in hosting this contest.[2]

Venue
Sala Polivalentă in Bucharest, venue of the 2006 contest.

Polyvalent Hall from Bucharest (Romanian: 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.

Format

Presenters

The presenters in charge of conducting the event were Andreea Marin and Ioana Ivan,[3] 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.[4] Marin has twice appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest, reading out the Romanian televote results in 2004 and 2006.[5] Ivan is an actress and television personality and the first child presenter of the event.[6]

Opening and interval acts

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.[3]

Participation

Originally 16 countries had initially signed up for the contest but one unspecified country later dropped out.[7]

Broadcasting in Belgium

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.[8] The viewing figures for the 2005 contest for RTBF were also low. Belgium continued to be represented at the contest by VRT.

2007 Croatian withdrawal

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, instead airing it on satellite-only channel HRT Plus. 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.[9] Croatia withdrew the following year and would not participate for seven years until they returned in 2014.

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 MGP Nordic in Stockholm, as they did in 2002. However, Sweden did participate, which was quite unexpected since they placed 15th all earlier years, 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.[10][11] The United Kingdom would return to the contest in 2022 with the BBC replacing ITV as the county’s broadcaster.[12]

Monaco had stated an interest to take part in the contest, however did not take part in the contest.[13] Latvia also withdrew, mainly due to financial reasons. However they briefly returned to the contest in 2010 and 2011.

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. It wasn't until 2014 that they would start participating in the Junior Eurovision.

Participants and results
R/O Country Artist Song Language Points Place[14]
1  Portugal Pedro Madeira "Deixa-me sentir" Portuguese 22 14
2  Cyprus Luis Panagiotou and Christina Christofi "Agoria koritsia" (Αγόρια κορίτσια) Greek 58 8
3  Netherlands Kimberly Nieuwenhuis "Goed" Dutch 44 12
4  Romania New Star Music "Povestea mea" Romanian 80 6
5  Ukraine Nazar Slyusarchuk "Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок н рол) Ukrainian 58 9
6  Spain Dani Fernández "Te doy mi voz" Spanish 90 4
7  Serbia Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika "Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике) Serbian, English[lower-alpha 2] 81 5
8  Malta Sophie Debattista "Extra Cute" English 48 11
9  Macedonia Zana Aliu "Vljubena" (Вљубена) Macedonian 14 15
10  Sweden Molly Sandén "Det finaste någon kan få" Swedish 116 3
11  Greece Chloe Sofia Boleti "Den peirazei" (Δεν πειράζει) Greek 35 13
12  Belarus Andrey Kunets "Noviy den" (Новый день) Russian 129 2
13  Belgium Thor! "Een tocht door het donker" Dutch 71 7
14  Croatia Mateo Đido "Lea" Croatian 50 10
15  Russia Tolmachevy Twins "Vesenniy Jazz" (Весенний джаз) Russian 154 1

Detailed voting results
Detailed voting results[15]
Total score
Portugal
Cyprus
Netherlands
Romania
Ukraine
Spain
Serbia
Malta
Macedonia
Sweden
Greece
Belarus
Belgium
Croatia
Russia
Contestants
 Portugal 2273
Cyprus 5832353331266
Netherlands 44582863
Romania 80681412426773242
Ukraine 585246548138
Spain 9075786318857715
Serbia 81245572710415557
Malta 48113111753247
Macedonia 142
Sweden 1168712784810261010210
Greece 3512173
Belarus 12912641010861251086812
Belgium 71438635261124104
Croatia 50621012611
Russia 15410101012121012441210121212

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. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
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

Spokespersons
  1.  Portugal – Joana Galo Costa
  2.  Cyprus – George Ioannidies
  3.  Netherlands – Tess Gaerthe
  4.  Romania – Andrea Nastase
  5.  Ukraine – Assol Gumenyuk
  6.  Spain – Lucía
  7.  Serbia – Milica Stanišić
  8.  Malta – Jack Curtis
  9.  Macedonia – Denis Dimoski
  10.  Sweden – Amy Diamond
  11.  Greece – Alexandros Chountas
  12.  Belarus – Liza Anton-Baychuk
  13.  Belgium – Sander Cliquet
  14.  Croatia – Lorena Jelusić
  15.  Russia – Roman Kerimov

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.

  •  Armenia – Armenian broadcaster ARMTV were negotiating with the EBU to debut. However, plans never came to fruition and they debuted a year later.

Broadcasts
Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
 Belarus BTRC Denis Kurian
 Belgium VRT Ilse Van Hoecke and Jelle Cleymans
 Croatia HRT Elan Nikk
 Cyprus CyBC Kyriakos Pastides
 Greece ERT Renia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras
 Macedonia MTV 1 Milanka Rašik
 Malta PBS Valerie Vella
 Netherlands AVRO Sipke Jan Bousema
 Portugal RTP Isabel Angelino
 Romania TVR1 Ioana Isopecu and Alexandru Nagy
 Russia RTR Olga Shelest
 Serbia RTS2 Duška Vučinić-Lučić
 Spain TVE Fernando Argenta and Lucho
 Sweden TV4 Adam Alsing
 Ukraine NTU Timur Miroshnychenko [16]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
 Andorra RTVA Unknown
 Australia SBS (1 January 2007) No commentary
 Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT Unknown
 Israel IBA (8 December 2007) Unknown [17]

Official album
Cover art of the official album

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006, is a compilation album put together by the European Broadcasting Union, and was released by Universal Music Group in November 2006. The album features all the songs from the 2006 contest, along with karaoke versions.

See also

Notes
  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. Contains only 2 lines of chorus in Serbian, while 24 lines of verses are mostly sung in English and a few lines are sung in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish and Romanian.

References
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  4. "Cine e cea mai de succes Carierista?". Amelie.ro. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  5. Royston, Benny (October 17, 2006). "Eurovision Andreea Marin will welcome europe". ESCToday.com. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  6. Royston, Benny (November 6, 2006). "Eurovision Exclusive: The singing logo is the co-host!!!". ESCToday.com. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
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  9. "ESC Today article on withdrawal of Croatia". ESC Today. 20 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  10. "Junior Eurovision Song Contest". UKGameshows. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017.
  11. Kuipers, Michael (20 April 2008). "Junior Eurovision 2008: United Kingdom to return to JESC?". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014.
  12. "United Kingdom returns to Junior Eurovision". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 25 August 2022.
  13. "Eurovision Monaco plans junior participation in 2006 - ESCToday.com". 22 July 2005. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  14. "Final of Bucharest 2006". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  15. "Results of the Final of Bucharest 2006". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
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