Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Infobox Eurovision
name = Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
theme = "Let The Music Play"


final = 2 December 2006
presenters = Andreea Marin Bănică
Ioana Ivan
conductor =
director =
host = flagicon|Romania TVR
venue = Sala Polivalentă, Bucharest, Romania
winner = flag|Russia
"Vesna"
vote = Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
entries = 15
debut = flag|Portugal
flag|Serbia [Serbia had taken part, in the 2005 contest, as part of Serbia and Montenegro, but this was their first participation as an independent nation.]
flag|Ukraine
return = flag|Cyprus
withdraw = flag|Denmark
flag|Latvia
flag|Norway
flag|Serbia and Montenegro
flag|United Kingdom
null = None
interval = Ksenia Sitnik,
Breakdancing + traditional Romanian dancing and a remix of the last 3 Romanian participants at JESC.
opening = Various circus style dancers and performers including an appearance by Mihai Trăistariu
con = Junior Eurovision Song Contest
pre = ◄2005
nex = 2007►

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fourth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged 8 to 15. On December 2, 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, TVR, in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union. TVR won the rights of hosting the contest over AVRO [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/5045 'EBU Confirms: Romania to host Junior 2006'] ] of the Netherlands (who hosted the next contest). Croatia also expressed an interest in hosting this contest. [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/3231 'Croatia and Romania want to host junior 2006']

The contest was won by The Tolmachevy Twins from Russia with the song "Spring Jazz".

Originally 16 countries had initially signed up for the contest but one unspecified country later dropped out. [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/5947 'EBU: 16 countries signed up for Junior 2006'] ] The show was broadcast live in the competing countries, as well as Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Australian television channel SBS that acquired the rights for broadcasting the show, which was broadcast on January 1, 2007.

List of participants

{|class="sortable wikitable" Country Language Artist Song Translation Place Points 01 flagicon|Portugal Portugal Portuguese Pedro Madeira "Deixa-Me Sentir" Let Me Feel 14 22 02 flagicon|Cyprus Cyprus Greek Luis Panagiotou, Christina Christofi "Agoria Koritsia" Boys Girls 8 58 03 flagicon|Netherlands Netherlands Dutch Kimberly "Goed" Good 12 44 04 flagicon|Romania Romania Romanian New Star Music "Povestea Mea" My Story 6 80 05 flagicon|Ukraine Ukraine Ukrainian Nazar Slyusarchuk "Khlopchyk Rock-n-roll" Rock-n-roll Boy 9 58 06 flagicon|Spain Spain Spanish Dani "Te Doy Mi Voz" I Give You My Voice 4 90 07 flagicon|Serbia Serbia Serbian [The Serbian song contains actually only 2 lines of chorus in Serbian, while 24 lines of verses are sung in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.] Neustrašivi Učitelji Stranih Jezika "Učimo Strane Jezike" Learning Foreign Languages 5 81 08 flagicon|Malta Malta English Sophie Debattista "Extra Cute" - 11 48 09 flagicon|Macedonia FYR Macedonia Macedonian Zana Aliu "Vljubena" In Love 15 14 10 flagicon|Sweden Sweden Swedish Molly Sandén "Det Finaste Någon Kan Få" The Best Someone Could Get 3 116 11 flagicon|Greece Greece Greek Chloe Sofia Boleti "Den Peirazei" It Doesn't Matter 13 35 12 flagicon|Belarus Belarus Russian Andrey Kunets "Noviy Den" New Day 2 129 13 flagicon|Belgium Belgium Dutch Thor! "Een Tocht Door Het Donker" A Journey Through The Dark 7 71 14 flagicon|Croatia Croatia Croatian Mateo Đido "Lea" - ['Lea' is a given name and thus cannot be translated.] 10 50 15 flagicon|Russia Russia Russian The Tolmachevy Twins "Vesenniy jazz" Spring Jazz 1 154

Withdrawn countries

The Scandinavian broadcasters; DR of Denmark, NRK of Norway and 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, 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 ITV1, relegating it to ITV2 for the next two years due to bad viewer ratings, before their complete withdrawal in 2006.

Latvia has also withdrawn, mainly due to financial reasons.

Serbia and Montenegro participated in the 2005 contest, but since then, Montenegro voted for independency. The EBU gave their national broadcaster, RTCG, extra time to decide whether or not to participate, but they finally declined the invitation.

Facts

For the third year in a row, the contest was won by a girl.Also for the third year in a row, the third place went to a girl.Since 2003, the country that wins, comes second or third the next year.

Map

References

core sheet

		Results
	Russia		12	12	10	12	12	12	10	12	12	4	10	10	10	4
	Belarus	12		10	8	6	10	6	6	10	8	12	4	8	12	5
	Sweden	10	10		4	8	7	10	7	8	2	10	12	6	8	2
	Spain	5	7	8		3	8	7	5	6	1	1	7	5	7	8
	Serbia	7	5	4	2		5	5	4	7	5	7	5	1	2	10
	Romania	2	3	7	12	4		2	8	4	4	2	1	7	6	6
	Belgium	4	4	1	5	2	3		3	10	6	3	8	2	4	1
	Cyprus	6	6	3	3	0	3	0		0	5	0	2	12	3	3
	Ukraine	8	8	0	6	0	4	1	2		3	5	5	0	4	5
	Croatia	1	1	1	6	0	10	0	0	0		2	0	0	6	12
	Malta	0	2	5	1	1	0	4	1	1	7		3	3	1	7
	Netherlands	3	0	2	0	5	0	8	0	0	6	8		0	0	0
	Greece	0	0	0	0	7	1	3	12	0	0	0	0		0	0
	Portugal	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
	FYR Macedonia	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY ORDER OF PLACING

External links

Official websites

* [http://www.junioreurovision.tv/ Official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website]
* [http://www.tvr.ro/jesc/ TVR website]

Fan sites and news sites

* [http://jesc.esckaz.com/ Junior Eurovision coverage by ESCKaz, in English and Russian]
* [http://www.eurovision-fr.net/ French site about Eurovision Song Contest and Junior ESC]
* [http://www.esctoday.com esctoday.com]
* [http://www.euromusic.ro/ Romanian site about Eurovision Song Contest and Junior ESC, in Romanian (www.euromusic.3x.ro)]
* [http://www.ogaemalta.com Maltese Official Eurovision fan club's site with latest news from Maltese Junior Song for Europe selection]
* [http://www.eurovisionclub.3x.com/ Cypriot site about Eurovision Song Contest and Junior ESC, in Greek]
* [http://www.esc-romania.tk/ The new Romanian site on ESC and JESC]