Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Compilation album by Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Released	November 2006
Genre	Pop
Length	36:05 (CD 1); 36:05 (CD 2);
Label	Universal
Junior Eurovision Song Contest chronology

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Let The Music Play
Dates
Final	2 December 2006
Host
Venue	Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest, Romania
Presenter(s)	Andreea Marin Bănică,; Ioana Ivan
Directed by	Dan Manoliu
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Irina Radu
Host broadcaster	Televiziunea Română (TVR)
Opening act	Various circus style dancers and performers including an appearance by Mihai Trăistariu followed by a flag parade introducing the 15 participating countries
Interval act	Ksenia Sitnik,; Break-dancing + traditional Romanian dancing and a remix of the last 3 Romanian participants at JESC.
Website	junioreurovision.tv/event/bucharest-2006
Participants
Number of entries	15
Debuting countries	Portugal; Serbia; Ukraine
Returning countries	Cyprus
Non-returning countries	Denmark; Latvia; Norway; Serbia and Montenegro; United Kingdom
	hide Participation map Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 2006;
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"
	2005 ← Junior Eurovision Song Contest → 2007

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]

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[]

Zagreb

Amsterdam

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[]

TVR 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.

Participation[]

Originally 16 countries had initially signed up for the contest but one unspecified country later dropped out.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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 Melodi Grand Prix 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.

Monaco had stated an interest to take part in the contest, however did not take part in the contest.^[6] 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.

Results[]

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

Scoreboard[]

Voting results^[8]
		Total score	Portugal	Cyprus	Netherlands	Romania	Ukraine	Spain	Serbia	Malta	Macedonia	Sweden	Greece	Belarus	Belgium	Croatia	Russia
Contestants	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	90	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

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[]

Portugal – Joana Galo Costa
Cyprus – George Ioannidies
Netherlands – Tess Gaerthe
Romania – Andrea Nastase
Ukraine – Assol Gumenyuk
Spain – Lucía
Serbia – Milica Stanišić
Malta – Jack Curtis
Macedonia – Denis Dimoski
Sweden – Amy Diamond
Greece – Alexandros Chountas
Belarus – Liza Anton-Baychuk
Belgium – Sander Cliquet
Croatia – Lorena Jelusić
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.
Ukraine	NTU	Timur Miroshnychenko	^[9]
Spain	TVE	Fernando Argenta and Lucho
Belgium	VRT	Ilse Van Hoecke and Jelle Cleymans
Russia	RTR	Olga Shelest
Sweden	TV4	Adam Alsing
Netherlands	AVRO	Sipke Jan Bousema
Serbia	RTS2	Duška Vučinić-Lučić
Macedonia	MTV 1	Milanka Rašik
Cyprus	CyBC	Kyriakos Pastides
Belarus	BTRC	Denis Kurian
Greece	ERT	Renia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras
Portugal	RTP	Isabel Angelino
Romania	TVR1	Ioana Isopecu and Alexandru Nagy
Malta	PBS	Valerie Vella
Croatia	HRT	Unknown

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)	No commentary	^[10]

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.

CD 1
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Deixa-me sentir"	Pedro Madeira (Portugal)	2:46
2.	"Agoria koritsia"	Luis Panagiotou & Christina Christofi (Cyprus)	2:41
3.	"Goed"	Kimberly Nieuwenhuis (Netherlands)	2:46
4.	"Povestea mea"	New Star Music (Romania)	2:31
5.	"Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll"	Nazar Slyusarchuk (Ukraine)	2:48
6.	"Te doy mi voz"	Dani (Spain)	2:45
7.	"Učimo strane jezike"	[sr] (Serbia)	2:32
8.	"Extra Cute"	Sophie Debattista (Malta)	2:43
9.	"Vljubena"	Zana Aliu (Macedonia)	2:45
10.	"Det finaste någon kan få"	Molly Sandén (Sweden)	2:42
11.	"Den peirazei"	Chloe Sofia Boleti (Greece)	2:48
12.	"Noviy den"	Andrey Kunets (Belarus)	2:40
13.	"Een tocht door het donker"	Thor! (Belgium)	2:27
14.	"Lea"	Mateo Đido (Croatia)	2:34
15.	"Vesenniy Jazz"	Tolmachevy Twins (Russia)	2:37
Total length:			36:05

CD 2
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Deixa-me sentir" (Karaoke version)	Pedro Madeira (Portugal)	2:46
2.	"Agoria koritsia" (Karaoke version)	Luis Panagiotou & Christina Christofi (Cyprus)	2:41
3.	"Goed" (Karaoke version)	Kimberly Nieuwenhuis (Netherlands)	2:46
4.	"Povestea mea" (Karaoke version)	New Star Music (Romania)	2:31
5.	"Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Karaoke version)	Nazar Slyusarchuk (Ukraine)	2:48
6.	"Te doy mi voz" (Karaoke version)	Dani (Spain)	2:45
7.	"Učimo strane jezike" (Karaoke version)	[sr] (Serbia)	2:32
8.	"Extra Cute" (Karaoke version)	Sophie Debattista (Malta)	2:43
9.	"Vljubena" (Karaoke version)	Zana Aliu (Macedonia)	2:45
10.	"Det finaste någon kan få" (Karaoke version)	Molly Sandén (Sweden)	2:42
11.	"Den peirazei" (Karaoke version)	Chloe Sofia Boleti (Greece)	2:48
12.	"Noviy den" (Karaoke version)	Andrey Kunets (Belarus)	2:40
13.	"Een tocht door het donker" (Karaoke version)	Thor! (Belgium)	2:27
14.	"Lea" (Karaoke version)	Mateo Đido (Croatia)	2:34
15.	"Vesenniy Jazz" (Karaoke version)	Tolmachevy Twins (Russia)	2:37
Total length:			36:05

Notes[]

^ Serbia had taken part, in the 2005 contest, as part of Serbia and Montenegro, but this was their first participation as an independent nation.
^ 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 and Japanese.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "'EBU Confirms: Romania to host Junior 2006'". Retrieved 2 August 2018.
^ 'Croatia and Romania want to host junior 2006' Archived 2006-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
^ "'EBU: 16 countries signed up for Junior 2006'". Retrieved 2 August 2018.
^ "'RTBF withdraws from Junior contest'". ESC Today. 29 November 2005. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
^ "ESC Today article on withdrawal of Croatia". ESC Today. 20 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
^ "Eurovision Monaco plans junior participation in 2006 - ESCToday.com". 22 July 2005. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
^ "Final of Bucharest 2006". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
^ "Results of the Final of Bucharest 2006". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
^ «Дитяче Євробачення» як взірець для дорослого (in Ukrainian). Telekritika. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
^ "Eurovision Israel getting into the JESC spirit". ESC Today. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

External links[]

[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.

[9] 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 and Japanese.

[Hosts-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "'EBU Confirms: Romania to host Junior 2006'". Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[3] 'Croatia and Romania want to host junior 2006' Archived 2006-11-16 at the Wayback Machine

[4] "'EBU: 16 countries signed up for Junior 2006'". Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[RTBFout-5] "'RTBF withdraws from Junior contest'". ESC Today. 29 November 2005. Retrieved 2008-06-22.

[croawithdraw-6] "ESC Today article on withdrawal of Croatia". ESC Today. 20 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2017.

[7] "Eurovision Monaco plans junior participation in 2006 - ESCToday.com". 22 July 2005. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[8] "Final of Bucharest 2006". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.

[10] "Results of the Final of Bucharest 2006". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.

[11] «Дитяче Євробачення» як взірець для дорослого (in Ukrainian). Telekritika. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-03.

[12] "Eurovision Israel getting into the JESC spirit". ESC Today. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

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