Clifford Brown (scrutineer)

Clifford Brown (scrutineer)

Clifford Brown MBE (born in Inverness on 22 July 1916 died in Kent on December 16, 1993) was a British television editor and director who became the second E.B.U scrutineer for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Brown was born in Inverness in Scotland in 1916 after joining the army he started working for Scottish Television and ITV. In 1966 he was appointed to be scrutineer for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1969 when The Contest was held in Spain there was a four-way tie between France, Spain, UK and the Netherlands. Before the show the presenter (Laura Valenzuela) had asked Brown what would happen if there was a tie, his reply was Madam, that never happened before, and that's never going to happen, as noted in The Eurovision Song Contest — The Official History by author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor, Brown admitted in a BBC documentary in 1992 that the result caused disgust among many people, not least the Scandinavian countries.[1]

Brown stepped down as scrutineer in 1977 and was awarded the MBE award in 1990. He died in December 1993 after sometime of illness.

References

  1. ^ O'Connor, John Kennedy (2007). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History. UK: Carlton Books. pp. 39. ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3. 
Preceded by
Miroslav Vilcek
Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest
1966–1977
Succeeded by
Frank Naef

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