Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Infobox Eurovision
name = Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005


final = 26 November 2005
presenters = Marcel Vanthilt
Maureen Louys
conductor =
director =
host = flagicon|Belgium RTBF, VRT
venue = Ethias Arena, Hasselt, Belgium
winner = flag|Belarus
"My Vmeste"
vote = Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
entries = 16
debut = flag|Russia
flag|Serbia and Montenegro
return = None
withdraw = flag|Cyprus
flag|France
flag|Poland
flag|Switzerland

null = None
interval = María Isabel
opening =
con = Junior Eurovision Song Contest
pre = ◄2004
nex = 2006►

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was the third Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged 8 to 15. On November 26, 2005, the contest was broadcast live from the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium, in a joint effort by the national broadcasters VRT and RTBF, in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union. Belgium won the right to hold the contest over five other countries including HRT of Croatia and AVRO of the Netherlands. [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/2299 'Belgium organises Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005!'] ] Marcel Vanthilt and Maureen Louys hosted the event.

The show was not only broadcast live in the competing countries, it was also available on satellite worldwide and the Australian television channel SBS who acquired the rights to broadcast the show one month later.

As many as twenty countries could have participated in this contest: Cyprus should have taken part but on October 13, Cypriot broadcaster CyBC announced their withdrawal [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/5252 Information on Cyprus withdrawal] ] for internal reasons (complaints were being sent to the broadcaster stating that the song they had chosen appeared to be plagiarism). This did not affect their ability to take part in the voting. In addition, Lithuania and Ukraine had planned on entering [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/4806 'Lithuania and Ukraine join in Hasselt'] ] but later withdrew. Georgia had also wanted to appear but missed the participation deadline for the contest. [ [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/4859 'Georgia won't participate'] ] Lithuania, Ukraine and Georgia would eventually appear at later contests.

The public broadcasters of Switzerland and Poland didn't send candidates for financial reasons. France didn't join because of restructuring within the channel. Russia and Serbia and Montenegro made their debut in the competition this year.

The theme of the show was 'Let's Get Loud', standing for the new generation on the stage.

The show was watched by 8,500 people in the Arena, including the Belgian Prince Laurent and 20-25 million people around Europe

Belarus was the winner of this edition, with 10-year old Ksenia Sitnik singing her song 'My Vmeste'.

Acts

The show opened with fireworks and bungee jumpers.

As surprise act the young Vladik Myagkostupov from the famous Cirque du Soleil showed his juggling abilities in a 4 minute performance while people were voting during the interval. While the votes were being counted, the Spanish María Isabel, performed a medley from the song with which she won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and some of the numbers from the album she had recently released. She also presented the trophy to the winner.

Participants

Viewers

[http://www.belgovision.com Belgovision.com] could exclusively look at the EBU's official viewing figures. Around 21 million people watched the show live. Data for Serbia and Montenegro, Belarus, Malta, and FYR Macedonia are not available.

{|class="wikitable" Country Broadcaster Viewers

BEL VRT 1,014,079 RTBF 238,900 CRO HRT 642,681 CYP CyBC 37,142 DEN DR 865,000 GRE ERT 865,000 LAT LTV 300,900 NED AVRO 1,031,000 NOR NRK 930,000 ROU TVR 2,458,000 RUS RTR 4,083,400 ESP TVE 5,744,000 SWE SVT 1,020,000 UK ITV2 171,000 ITV [ITV broadcast the contest live on ITV2, and then repeated it in a shortened version the following day on ITV. They also broadcast the 2004 contest in this way.] 700,000

Facts

*Lorena Jelusić, the Croatian entrant, is the sister of Dino Jelusić, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003.
*Tess lives in Belgium but is able to compete for the Netherlands because she has a Dutch nationality.
*Greece opened the show, and Sweden came in fifteenth place, both for the third time in a row.
*Spain maintained their record of never finishing below the top 2, having now finished 2nd in 2003 and 2005 and 1st in 2004.
*For the third year in a row,Malta received their highest set of points from Denmark.
*Before selecting "Doroga k solntsu" Russian broadcaster RTR has selected songs "Ivana Kupala" and "Nahodka-Moskva" for the contest which were ineligible as they were written by adult songwriters. "Doroga k solntsu" was written by son of many-times Eurovision Song Contest lyricist Karen Kavaleryan Artyom, and composed by grand-son of another Eurovision Song Contest composer Kim Breitburg Jr. However, even if two kids-authors were present in Hasselt, agaist the rules they were not involved in stage presentation. Triple change of the entry also caused official CD to be delayed, but EBU has not set any punishement for the Russian broadcaster. [cite web|url=http://esckaz.com/2006/jesc_russia.htm|title=Russia at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005|publisher=ESCKaz.com]

Map

References

External links

* [http://www.junioreurovision.tv Official site]
* [http://esckaz.com/2006/jesclyr.htm Lyrics of Junior Eurovision 2005 entries at ESCKaz.com]
* [http://belarus.esckaz.com/index4.htm Belarus at JESC 2005, Eurovision-Belarus project]

Artists' sites

* [http://www.denisdimoski.com Denis Dimoski Official site]
* [http://www.kseniya.by Kseniya Sitnik's Official site]
* [http://www.nicolaikielstrup.dk Nicolai Official Site]
* [http://www.jonifuller.com Joni Fullers Official site]
* [http://thea.di-ve.com Thea & Friends Official Site]
* [http://www.antonio-jose.esp.st Antonio José's Official Site]
* [http://www.volshebnikidvora.ru Vlad Krutskih & Street Magic Official site]