Eurovision Song Contest 1980
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 19 April 1980 at the Template:Lang in The Hague, Netherlands, and presented by Marlous Fluitsma. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Template:Lang (NOS), who staged the event after the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which had won the Template:Escyr for Template:Esccnty, declined hosting responsibilities as it had staged the competition in 1979. Although Fluitsma was the main presenter, each song was introduced by a presenter appointed by each participating broadcaster, that in some cases was the same person providing the commentary.
Broadcasters from nineteen countries took part this year, with Template:Esccnty and the previous year's winner Template:Esccnty deciding not to participate, and Template:Esccnty returning. Template:Esccnty made its only appearance in the contest. It was the last Eurovision Song Contest not to be hosted in the previous edition's winning country until Template:Escyr.
The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "What's Another Year", sung by Johnny Logan and written by Shay Healy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Location
The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which won the contest in 1979, renounced its right to host the 1980 edition on 13 August 1979. The resignation was the result of failed negotiations between the broadcaster and the Knesset, after lawmakers did not authorize extra budget allocations for another international production hosted by IBA in a short space of time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However, rumours later emerged that the resignation was in actuality due to a controversy related to the date of the contest, which had been provisionally confirmed for 19 April 1980, coinciding with the Yom HaZikaron holiday. The issue itself became controversial in Israel, thanks to a translation error in several documents sent by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to IBA at the end of 1979, when negotiations regarding the holding of the contest would begin. However, IBA tried to negotiate several times with the EBU the possibility of changing the date. However, none of them were fruitful and on 10 December 1979, the Israeli withdrawal was confirmed, following confirmation that the date chosen for the competition was 19 April 1980.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Following these incidents, the EBU apologised to IBA, but even with their arguments, the date of the competition could not be changed, since the schedule for the participating broadcasters was tight and many of them already had their participation plans and programming schedules set up. This caused an atypical situation, because it was the only time in history that the country that had won the previous year could not defend its title.
Upon learning of the decision taken by the IBA, the EBU sent a public apology, claiming that "the lack of employees with knowledge of the Hebrew language has placed it in a strained situation". The issue was resolved when the IBA publicly accepted the apologies and confirmed that regardless of what happened in the 1980 contest, it would return in 1981.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Many years later, Yair Lapid, son of the late Tommy Lapid who was the general director of the IBA at the time, told in his father's biography, "that when his father discovered that holding the contest for two years in a row by IBA could result in unexpected bankruptcy. In December 1979, when this argument was presented to the other broadcasters, only NOS immediately accepted".<ref>Yair Lapid, "Memoires After my Death", Keter Books, Jerusalem 2010 (ISBN 978-965-07-1792-6), p. 239 (in Hebrew)</ref>
As news arrived, the EBU triggered an emergency protocol and invited the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as reserve host broadcaster, something that had already happened four other times (Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, and Template:Escyr). However, this time alleging the same financial problems that delayed the Template:Escyr contest, the BBC ended up not taking over production. The third option was Template:Lang (TVE), due to the fact that the Spanish entry had finished second the previous year. However, with the period of the Spanish transition to democracy having already started, TVE also declined, despite the fact that the tourism board of the Template:Lang was already working in a bid with the Convention Center of Torremolinos as the venue with the aim of harnessing the area's touristic potential.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
With negative responses from the reserve options, the EBU and the IBA decided to offer hosting rights to any of the other 15 broadcasters which had participated in the previous edition. 14 of them also gave negative responses to the situation, as no one expected the IBA to give up the rights. The situation only calmed down at the end of 1979, when Template:Lang (NOS) confirmed the date of the competition and its location, which was decided on 23 October.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As it accepted the responsibility with little time to organize and produce the event, NOS allocated a smaller budget and reused many elements of the stage design from the Template:Escyr contest.
Production
As in Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr, the stage design was the work of Template:Ill.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The main platform was decorated with a five-step staircase and three curved horizontal panels, in front of which participants performed their songs. The technique included a series of geometric elements suspended by cables that accompanied each performance, transforming into totally different images accompanied by colored lights that also changed with each song.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Given the short time for production, the Dutch art team ended up opting to recycle several elements from the 1976 contest stage, but with different uses. They chose to rescue several pieces from sets from other productions by the broadcaster, a warehouse and also a scrapyard, observing the conditions of use. Recycling also involved the contest's visual identity, in the same way that the opening video was a reissue of the one used four years earlier.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Participants
Template:Further Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1980 participants After Israel announced its absence, Template:Esccnty entered the contest for its first, and to date only, participation. Template:Esccnty also withdrew from the contest, and would not return until 2004.
Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Paola del Medico had represented Template:Esccnty, Katja Ebstein had represented Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty, and Maggie MacNeal had represented the Template:Esccnty as part of Mouth and MacNeal.
Format
The venue that had hosted the Template:Escyr, the Template:Lang, was again chosen to stage the event. Because of the limited budget and time available, NOS decided to recycle several elements of the 1976 production such as several opening video sequences and many pieces and elements that had been used in other NOS shows since then. Again, Roland de Groot took charge of the design. As with the 1977 and 1978 contests, there were no pre-filmed postcards between the songs, with a guest presenter appointed by each participating broadcaster introducing the entries. Apart from this, Marlous Fluitsma presented the contest almost entirely in Dutch, with exceptions in the protocol parts and in the voting where she used French and English. Thus, the broadcaster host spent only NLG 900.000 on organizing the contest, from the overall amount of NLG 1.5 million.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At least 300 journalists were onsite to cover the event.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Song presenters
Each of the 19 contestants was presented by a presenter from that country appointed by each participating broadcaster, in some cases the same person providing the commentary.<ref name="Roxburgh" /> Each of the songs was introduced in the same language as the song was performed, with the exception of the Irish introduction, which was made in Irish, whereas the song was performed in English. The British presenter was incorrectly identified in the onscreen caption as 'Noel Edmunds' and the Finnish presenter as 'Heikki Haarma'.
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- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMohammed Bouzidi
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndBeatrice Cori
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndJørgen de Mylius
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndUlf Elfving
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndLyliam Stambac
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndHeikki Harma
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndÅse Kleveland
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndCarolin Reiber
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndNoel Edmonds
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- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMarlous Fluitsma
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndÉvelyne Dhéliat
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndThelma Mansfield
- Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMari Cruz Soriano
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Contest overview
Template:Multiple image During the live interval act performance of San Fernando by The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band with the Lee Jackson dancers, Hans van Willigenburg intercut brief interviews with some of the participants backstage in the green room, speaking to the singers from Germany, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, and the Netherlands, each in their own language.
Australian-born Johnny Logan, representing his parents' country Template:Esccnty, was ultimately crowned the winner with the song "What's Another Year". This was Ireland's second victory in the competition, having previously won in Template:Escyr with "All Kinds of Everything", coincidentally also held on Dutch soil. It was also the first time that a male solo artist (albeit with backing vocals) had won the contest since Udo Jürgens won for Template:Esccnty.
Spokespersons
Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1980 contest are listed below.
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Detailed voting results
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The scoring system implemented in 1975 remained the same; each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. However this year for the first time, spokespersons were required to declare their scores in ascending order, 1,2,3 etc. This change made for the added excitement of waiting for each country to award their highest 12 points at the end of each voting round.
For the voting sequence, Marlous Fluitsma used a different telephone to speak to each of the nineteen jury spokespersons, although the phones were simply props and were not connected.
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| rowspan="19" Template:Vert header | Austria | 64 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Turkey | 23 | 3 | 12 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 30 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 56 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
| Morocco | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 87 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Denmark | 25 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 47 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 104 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Finland | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 128 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 7 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 106 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | |||||
| Portugal | 71 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | ||||||
| Netherlands | 93 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
| France | 45 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | |||||||
| Ireland | 143 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 12 | ||||
| Spain | 38 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Belgium | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
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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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The contest was also reportedly broadcast in Cyprus, Israel, Iceland, and Jordan; in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union via Intervision; and in Cuba, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates, with an estimated audience of 450 million viewers.<ref name="PZC">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The contest was reportedly broadcast via radio in countries including Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.<ref name="PZC" /> Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | Template:Abbr |
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| Template:Flagu | CyBC | RIK | Template:N/A | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Template:Flagu | TVB | TVB JadeTemplate:Efn | Template:N/A | <ref name="HongKong">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| TVB PearlTemplate:Efn | Template:N/A | |||
| Template:Flagu | RÚV | Template:LangTemplate:Efn | Björn Baldursson | <ref name="Iceland">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Template:Flagu | IBA | Israeli TelevisionTemplate:Efn | Template:N/A | <ref name="Israel">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Template:Ill, Template:Ill | Template:N/A | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Template:Flagu | JTV | JTV2 | Template:N/A | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Template:Flagu | ATM | TeleArubaTemplate:Efn | Template:N/A | <ref name="Aruba">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Template:Flagu | TVR | Template:LangTemplate:Efn | Template:N/A | <ref name="Romania">Template:Cite magazine</ref> |
| Template:Flagu | KBS | KBSTemplate:Efn | Template:N/A | <ref name="Korea">Template:Cite news</ref> |
Notes
References
External links
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