The singing girl, who is featured in all Junior Eurovision Song Contest logos.

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (sometimes known as Junior Eurovision or JESC) is an international song contest held each year in a different European city. It is for children between the ages of 10 and 15 (until 2007, ages 8 to 15). Image File history File links JESCLogo. ... Image File history File links JESCLogo. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

History

The contest was formed after a Scandinavian contest in 2002, MGP Nordic, with Denmark, Norway and Sweden as participants. Danmarks Radio had already 2001 held a junior contest only for Denmark. The EBU picked up the idea for a junior contest, and asked Denmark to host the first JESC. The winner of 2006, Seb from Denmark. ... Danmarks Radio (normally referred to as just DR) is Denmarks national broadcasting corporation. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... “EBU” redirects here. ...

Denmark and Norway withdrawn for 2006 saying that the children were too pressured by the contest. They returned to the old MGP Nordic, but Sweden participated with the Swedish broadcaster TV4. Other Danish broadcasters weren't interested, therefore Norway withdrew from the contest. United Kingdom's ITV experienced extremely low viewers for the contests over the past years and were not interested in continuing it. This makes it the United Kingdom's first absence from the Eurovision Song Contest in any shape or form since 1958. TV4 is the largest commercial television channel in Sweden. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting...

The singing girl has been the basic logo since start, however the EBU announced that the logo would be changed for 2007 and asked broadcasters competing in the contest to produce their own logo for an internal competition. The winning logo would be used in the 2007 contest with the possibility of it being used in future contests.

Winners

Year	Winner	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Date	Location
2008	-	-	-	-	-	November 22, 2008	Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center, Limasol, Cyprus
2007	-	-	-	-	-	December 08, 2007	Ahoy Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006	Russia	Russian	The Tolmachevy Twins	Veseniy Jazz	Spring Jazz	December 02, 2006	Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest, Romania
2005	Belarus	Russian	Ksenia Sitnik	My Vmeste	We Are Together	November 26, 2005	Ethias Arena, Hasselt, Belgium
2004	Spain	Spanish	María Isabel	Antes Muerta Que Sencilla	Better Dead Than Normal	November 20, 2004	Haakons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway
2003	Croatia	Croatian	Dino Jelusić	Ti Si Moja Prva Ljubav	You Are My First Love	November 15, 2003	Forum Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Differences Between the Junior and Adult Contests

• There are some noticeable differences between the JESC and ESC. For example, in recent years every contestant has automatically been awarded 12 points in a bid to prevent the infamous "nul points" situation happening to the younger contestants. In the ESC each contestant starts with zero points.
• English is now the sole "official" language used in the JESC. The ESC uses both English and French
• In the ESC participants are limited to six performers on stage. However, in the JESC there is a limit of eight performers.
• Although the main singers must sing live during the contest, backing vocals may be recorded onto the backing track. This is unlike the ESC where all vocals must be sung live.
• The televoting must be presented by children rather than adults to stay in keeping with the "junior" theme.
• Whilst the ESC has a song time limit of three minutes, the JESC has a limit of two minutes forty-five seconds. The song cannot last less than two minutes thirty seconds.
• In the ESC the winning country automatically has the right to host the next contest. In the JESC the country hosting the next contest is selected well in advance of the preceding contest. The winner will usually only receive a trophy.
• The back-up jury used if the televoting fails must contain eight people - four of whom must be under sixteen years of age. The ESC uses eight people, all over sixteen years of age.
• In 2006 for the first time, viewers were able to vote for any of the songs at any time during the performances. Although this was questionable as it was thought the first performer would have an advantage over the other contestants^{[citation needed]}, the winner was actually the last performance, Russia.

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Entry Restrictions

The song must be written by the artist and sung in the national language (or one of the national languages) of the country. The song submitted into the contest cannot have previously been released commercially. The children singing also must not have previously released music commercially. It is produced by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) who also produce the Eurovision Song Contest (which the JESC is very much modelled on). Only member broadcasters of the EBU may take part in the contest. “EBU” redirects here. ... The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest (in Istanbul) to create a consistent visual identity. ...

Participants

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Participation since 2003:      Entered at least once      Never entered, although eligible to do so      Entry intended, but withdrew before final

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Debut of Nations

Year	Debuting Countries
2003	Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Latvia FYR Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
2004	France, Switzerland
2005	Russia, Serbia and Montenegro
2006	Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine
2007	Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lithuania

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Retreat Of Nations

• 2003 - None
• 2004 - None
• 2005 - France, Switzerland, Cyprus*, Poland
• 2006 - Norway, United Kingdom, Latvia, Denmark
• 2007 - Croatia, Spain**

* Cyprus withdrew just before the 2005 contest, because their song was said to be too similar to another song. However, they were allowed to vote and partipicated in the years following.

**Spain made a surprising withdrawal on August 8th with TVE's Director Javier Pons stating that "[The Junior Eurovision Song Contest] produces stereotypes that we don't share. It spreads dangerous 'rays' that form stereotypes. TVE is now looking for other formats that spread different values." The broadcaster has had good results in the contest, and said that the withdrawal was definitely nothing to do with these, but because of the format and ideals of the show. TVE said they'll be making their feelings known to the EBU in the search for other formats.^[1][2] TVE may stand for: Televisión Española Township and Village Enterprise This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

However on the 25th August, the EBU have stated that they have received nothing from TVE about a withdrawal, and will be in touch with them. If TVE have withdrawn, then they will still have to pay the entrance fee as the deadline of applications has already passed. ^[3] TVE may stand for: Televisión Española Township and Village Enterprise This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

HRT of Croatia have announced that they will withdraw from the 2007, and future contests, as otherwise they would have faced a fine from the EBU as they did not screen the 2006 event live and did not broadcast it on a nationally available network. Broadcasters must screen the event live and on a channel available to the majority of the public.^[4] Croatian Radiotelevision or Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) is the Croatian public broadcasting company. ...

Bosnia-Herzegovina was included into preliminary list of participants in 2007, but later withdrew and was replaced by Georgia. ^[5] Bosnia and Herzegovina (also variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...

Future

The partipicants number has decreased significantly since 2004: in 2006, only 15 countries competed. In both 2005 and 2006, four countries have retreated, but in 2007, only two nations have retreated. EBU has promised that the contest will go until at least 2008 and with 17 participants for 2007 including debuts for Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Lithuania, it seems as if the future of JESC is assured with Cyprus being given the honour to host the 2008 edition and the EBU inviting nations to bid for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

Trivia

• Spain holds the record for getting the most sets of 12 points (8 in 2004).
• FYR Macedonia, Greece, Malta and The Netherlands are the only countries that have entered all four contests, but have failed to receive votes from every other country participating.
• Spain is the only country to receive votes from all the countries in all the contests.
• Out of all the countries that have participated in every contest (4 in total so far), the country which has got the highest amount of points is Spain who have a total of 532 points and the lowest is Malta with only 136 points.
• The highest set of points The Netherlands receive each year have been collected from Belgium.
• In every contest, Cyprus have given their set of twelve points to Greece. With the exception of 2005, ( when Cyprus withdrew just before the contest, but were allowed to vote ) Greece has done exactly the same to Cyprus.
• 9 countries have entered every JESC: Belarus, Belgium, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden.

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Possible future participants

All current participants of the Eurovision Song Contest are potential candidates to join the JESC at some point, but the following are ones which are more likely to participate in the near future: The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest (in Istanbul) to create a consistent visual identity. ...

• Andorra - Like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andorra has broadcast the 2006 contest, and may debut in the contest, but not in 2007.
• Ireland - It is rumoured that RTÉ may take part in future years.
• Israel - The IBA announced that it was to screen the 2007 contest and are planning to enter the 2008 contest after their debut in the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008. ^[6]
• Montenegro - RTCG did not take part in JESC 2006 and JESC 2007, but may partipicate in future contests.
• Morocco - Morocco has broadcast the 2006 contest and will broadcast the 2007 contest, but they may enter in future years, however this is currently not possible, due to governmental say.
• Turkey - TRT make one Junior Song Contest only Turkish kids

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References

1. ^ http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/9063
2. ^ http://www.elpais.com/articulo/radio/television/TVE/retira/Eurojunior/concurso/infantil/cancion/elpepugen/20070808elpepirtv_3/Tes News on Spain's withdrawal (in Spanish)
3. ^ http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/9128
4. ^ ESC Today article on withdrawal of Croatia.
5. ^ News on withdrawal of Bosnia-Herzegovina and on Georgia replacing them
6. ^ http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/9070

External links

• Official site
• Eurovision-Croatia English and Croatian
• ESC Today Fan site on the ESC as well as the JESC
• ESCKaz English and Russian
• Melodyportal Eurovision,Music and First Turkish JESC site