Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
JESC 2004 logo.svg
Dates
Final20 November 2004
Host
VenueHåkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway
Presenter(s)Stian Barsnes Simonsen
Nadia Hasnaoui
Directed byGitte Calmeyer
Executive supervisorSvante Stockselius
Executive producerIvar Ragne Jensen
Host broadcasterNorwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)
Opening actFlag parade introducing the 18 participating countries
Interval actWestlife performing "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"
Websitejunioreurovision.tv/event/lillehammer-2004 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries18
Debuting countries France
  Switzerland
Non-returning countriesNone
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Voting systemEach country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul pointsNone
Winning song Spain
"Antes muerta que sencilla"
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the second edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged eight to fifteen. It was held on 20 November 2004, in Håkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway and lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. It was presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui, broadcast in twenty countries and viewed by 100 million people. Eighteen countries participated, France and Switzerland participated for the first time.

The contest was won by 9-year-old María Isabel who represented Spain with her song "Antes muerta que sencilla" (Better Dead Than Plain) from her debut album ¡No me toques las palmas que me conozco! which was released before the contest. Dino Jelusić, who won the 2003 contest for Croatia, presented the award to María. Since then, Isabel has entered the charts in not only Spain but France, Italy, Scandinavia, Latin America and has gone on to release further albums in her home country.

Greece, who came ninth received more sets of twelve points than the United Kingdom, who came second. France, who came sixth, were voted by all the other countries that took part, which is more than the number of countries that voted for Romania, who came fourth and Croatia, who came third.

Incidentally, the same three countries occupied the top three places as last year, just in a different order. These three countries were Spain, the United Kingdom, and Croatia.

Origins and history[]

See also: Junior Eurovision Song Contest

The origins of the contest date back to 2000 when Danmarks Radio held a song contest for Danish children that year and the following year.[1][2] The idea was extended to a Scandinavian song festival in 2002, MGP Nordic, with Denmark, Norway and Sweden as participants.[3][4] In November 2002, the EBU picked up the idea for a song contest featuring children and opened the competition to all EBU member broadcasters making it a pan-European event. The working title of the programme was "Eurovision Song Contest for Children",[5] branded with the name of the EBU's already long-running and popular song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest. Denmark was asked to host the first programme that took place the following year after their experience with their own contests and the MGP Nordic.[6]

Location[]

Further information on the host city: Lillehammer
Locations of the bidding countries. Countries which withdrew from hosting are marked in red. The chosen host country is marked in blue.

Host city selection[]

Norway was the third country of choice for this contest as the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) had, in May 2003, originally chosen broadcaster ITV of the United Kingdom to host the event.[7] Shortly after the first contest in Copenhagen, it was confirmed that the next edition would be held in Manchester on 20 November 2004.[8] However, ITV pulled out in May 2004 due to finance and scheduling problems.[9] In August 2004, it was revealed that Granada Television, who would have co-produced the show with Carlton Television, had decided to pull out of the deal claiming the allocated budget of 1.5 million euros was too small. The EBU offered funding of 900,000 to produce the event, but the ITV company said it would have cost almost 2.5 million euro so asked them to find a new host broadcaster.[10] It is also thought that another factor to their decision was the previous years' audience ratings for ITV which were below the expected amount.[11]

The venue was therefore moved to Croatia, the winning country of 2003,[12] but the Croatian broadcaster HRT reportedly forgot that the prospective venue for the event was already booked for the period the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was to take place.[13] It was at this point (June 2004), with five months remaining until the event would be held, that Norwegian broadcaster NRK offered to organise the next contest.[13] Hosting duties were confirmed by the broadcaster itself a few days later, adding that the competition would take place at Håkons Hall in Lillehammer on the same date as originally planned.[14]

Venue[]

Håkons Hall in Lillehammer was the eventual venue for the contest.

Håkons Hall, sometimes anglicized as Håkon Hall and Haakons Hall, is an arena located at Stampesletta in Lillehammer, Norway, built for the 1994 Winter Olympics. With a spectator capacity of 11,500 people, it is the largest handball and ice hockey venue in the country.

Håkons Hall is regularly used for handball and ice hockey tournaments, concerts, exhibitions, conferences and banquets. The venue is owned by Lillehammer Municipality via the subsidiary Lillehammer Olympiapark, which owns all the Olympic venues in Lillehammer. The Norwegian Olympic Museum is located in the arena, which is located next to the smaller Kristins Hall. The hall was opened on 1 February 1993 having cost 238 million Norwegian krone (NOK).

Format[]

Visual design[]

On 2 September 2004, host broadcaster NRK presented the official logo of the contest.[15] The theme of the show was later confirmed as bright Nordic winter nights, sparkling stars and snow crystals, set in a hip-hop atmosphere.[16]

Presenters[]

On 23 September 2004, it was announced that Nadia Hasnaoui and Stian Barsnes Simonsen would host the contest. The hosting couple also led the final of national qualifying rounds to the competition, Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2004 on 12 June.[17]

Running order[]

The draw for the running order of the contest was held on 14 October, with Greece drawn to open the contest for a second time and Romania drawn to close.[18]

Voting[]

All countries used televoting to decide on their top ten. In normal Eurovision fashion, each country's favourite song was given 12 points, their second favourite 10, and their third to tenth favourites were given 8–1 points.

Opening and interval acts[]

On television, the show opened with the usual EBU ident and fanfare, followed by a placard of a starry night sky with suspenseful music and the NRK logo in the middle of the card. The "JESC singing girl" would then zoom into the screen on a snowboard with the JESC 2004 logo on the bottom, and trailing behind the board would be stars. The singing girl would then hover towards a rotating disco ball, and as the camera would move closer, the words "JUNIOR EUROVISION SONG CONTEST - LILLEHAMMER 2004" would also start rotating. During this time, a person would start rapping the word "JESC" over and over again, then the placard would give way to a ceiling shot of the arena.

After the flag parade, the hosts, Stian and Nadia were to land on the stage from a snowboard. Stian landed on the left hand side of the stage, but when Nadia came through, she 'accidentally' crash-landed behind the stage. She emerged a few minutes later in comedic style coughing, but no bodily injuries were seen. Nonetheless, when she came out, the audience continued cheering and the show proceeded like it was supposed to.

The camera angle would then switch, this time to a camera positioned in the audience of the arena, where all the participants would walk through in a first ever Eurovision-related flag parade. In future editions, the flag parade would occur on the stage of the arena.

During a ten-minute break for televoting,[19] boy band Westlife performed "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" live on stage as the interval act.[20]

Participating countries[]

Originally twenty countries had applied to take part but Germany and Israel later pulled out.[21] There were also reports that Ireland had planned to enter the programme.[22] Israel, Ireland and Germany would later debut in the contest in 2012, 2015 and 2020 respectively.

This was the last contest that Poland and France took part in before their withdrawal in 2005. They would miss the contest for 12 and 14 years until 2016 and 2018 respectively, when they announced their return.[23]

Results[]

Draw Country Artist Song Language Place[24] Points
01  Greece Secret Band "O palios mou eaftos" (Ο παλιός μου εαυτός) Greek 9 48
02  Malta Young Talent Team "Power of a Song" English 12 14
03  Netherlands  [nl] "Hij is een kei" Dutch 11 27
04   Switzerland Demis Mirarchi "Birichino" Italian 16 4
05  Norway  [no] "En stjerne skal jeg bli" Norwegian 13 12
06  France Thomas Pontier "Si on voulait bien" French 6 78
07  Macedonia Martina Siljanovska "Zabava" (Забава) Macedonian 7 64
08  Poland KWADro "Łap życie" Polish 17 3
09  Cyprus Marios Tofi "Onira" (Όνειρα) Greek 8 61
10  Belarus Egor Volchek "Spiavajcie so mnoj" (Спявайце со мной) Belarusian 14 9
11  Croatia Nika Turković "Hej mali" Croatian 3 126
12  Latvia Mārtiņš Tālbergs and C-Stones Juniors "Balts vai melns" Latvian 17 3
13  United Kingdom Cory Spedding "The Best Is Yet to Come" English 2 140
14  Denmark Cool Kids "Pigen er min" Danish 5 116
15  Spain María Isabel "Antes muerta que sencilla" Spanish 1 171
16  Sweden  [sv] "Varför jag?" Swedish 15 8
17  Belgium Free Spirits "Accroche-toi" French 10 37
18  Romania Noni Răzvan Ene "Îți mulțumesc" Romanian 4 123

Scoreboard[]

Voting results[25]
Total score
Greece
Malta
Netherlands
Switzerlands
Norway
France
Macedonia
Poland
Cyprus
Belarus
Croatia
Latvia
United Kingdom
Denmark
Spain
Sweden
Belgium
Romania
Contestants
 Greece 48 12 1 2 1 3 12 3 5 1 2 6
Malta 14 2 3 4 4 1
Netherlands 27 3 3 1 1 3 1 5 2 1 7
Switzerland 4 4
Norway 12 7 5
France 78 6 1 5 6 2 2 4 4 6 4 7 2 6 8 4 8 3
Macedonia 64 6 6 5 5 4 5 3 8 3 3 5 3 3 3 2
Poland 3 2 1
Cyprus 61 12 8 3 1 6 4 5 2 8 1 5 1 5
Belarus 9 1 3 1 4
Croatia 126 4 8 8 10 8 12 7 6 8 8 12 8 6 8 6 7
Latvia 3 2 1
United Kingdom 140 5 10 12 7 6 6 5 10 5 10 7 10 10 10 7 10 10
Denmark 116 7 5 7 3 12 5 8 8 7 5 6 4 10 7 10 4 8
Spain 171 10 7 10 12 8 12 10 12 10 7 12 6 7 12 12 12 12
Sweden 8 4 1 3
Belgium 37 3 4 4 7 4 2 2 2 2 1 4 2
Romania 123 8 2 10 7 10 7 6 8 12 10 12 6 2 12 6 5

12 points[]

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
8  Spain  Belgium,  Croatia,  Denmark,  France,  Poland,  Romania,  Sweden,   Switzerland
3  Romania  Belarus,  Latvia,  Spain
2  Croatia  Macedonia,  United Kingdom
 Greece  Cyprus,  Malta
1  Cyprus  Greece
 Denmark  Norway
 United Kingdom  Netherlands

Spokespersons[]

  1.  Greece –
  2.  Malta –
  3.  Netherlands – Danny Hoekstra
  4.   Switzerland – Gaia Bertoncini
  5.  Norway – Ida
  6.  France – Gabrielle
  7.  Macedonia – Filip
  8.  Poland – Jadwiga Jaskulski
  9.  Cyprus – Stella María Koukkidi
  10.  Belarus – Darya
  11.  Croatia – Buga
  12.  Latvia – Sabīne Berezina
  13.  United Kingdom – Charlie Allan
  14.  Denmark – Anne Gadegaard
  15.  Spain – Lucho
  16.  Sweden – Vännerna Queenie
  17.  Belgium – Alexander Schönfelder
  18.  Romania – Emy

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.

  •  Germany – After failing to participate in the previous year, German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) was announced as a debutant at the 2004 contest. However, the country later ended up pulling out before the contest. No reason for the withdrawal was given.[21] Germany would only debut sixteen years later at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020.
  •  Ireland – Irish television was reported to have received an invitation to participate in the 2004 contest and were among the 20 countries expected to take part in Manchester. However, in the end Ireland did not debut and would stay out of the competition until 2015.[22]
  •  Israel – The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) initially planned to debut at this year's contest but the debut never happened. Israel and the IBA would not debut until 2012.[22]

Broadcasts[]

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
 Belarus Belarus 1 Denis Kurian
 Belgium VRT TV1 Dutch: Ilse Van Hoecke and Marcel Vanthilt
RTBF La Deux French: Jean-Louis Lahaye
 Croatia HRT 1 Unknown
 Cyprus CyBC Unknown
 Denmark DR1 Nicolai Molbech
 France France 3 Elsa Fayer and Bruno Berberes
 Greece ERT1 Unknown
 Latvia LTV1 Kārlis Streips [26]
 Malta TVM Valerie Vella
 Macedonia MTV 1 Milanka Rašik
 Netherlands Nederland 1 Angela Groothuizen
 Norway NRK1 Jonna Støme
 Poland TVP1 Artur Orzech
 Romania TVR1 Ioana Isopecu and Alexandru Nagy
 Spain TVE1 Fernando Argenta
 Sweden SVT1 Pekka Heino
  Switzerland SF2 German: Roman Kilchsperger
TSR 2 French: Marie-Thérèse Porchet
TSI 1 Italian: Claudio Lazzarino and Daniele Rauseo
 United Kingdom ITV2 (live), ITV1 (delayed) Matt Brown [27]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
 Australia SBS TV (delayed) No commentary
 Estonia ETV (delayed) Unknown [28]

Official album[]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest Lillehammer '04
JESC 2004 album cover.jpg
Compilation album by
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
ReleasedNovember 2004
GenrePop
Length43:51
LabelUniversal
Junior Eurovision Song Contest chronology
Junior Eurovision Song Contest Copenhagen 2003
(2003) 		Junior Eurovision Song Contest Lillehammer '04
(2004) 		Junior Eurovision Song Contest - 05
(2005)

Junior Eurovision Song Contest Lillehammer '04, is a compilation album put together by the European Broadcasting Union, and was released by Universal Music Group on November 2004. The album features all the songs from the 2004 contest.[29]

See also[]

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