Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the seventh edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was scheduled for 21 November.[1] 13 countries were confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to compete in the Contest.[4] The contest was won by Ralf Mackenbach for the Netherlands with the song "Click Clack". At the age of 14, he is the oldest person to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in its 7 year History. Luara Hayrapetyan achieved Armenia another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for Russia.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009
"For The Joy Of People"
Dates
Final21 November 2009[1]
Host
VenuePalace of Sports, Kyiv, Ukraine[1]
Presenter(s)Ani Lorak
Timur Miroshnichenko
Dmytro Borodin (Green Room)[2]
Directed bySven Stojanovic[3]
Executive supervisorSvante Stockselius
Host broadcasterNational Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)
Websitejunioreurovision.tv/event/kyiv-2009
Participants
Number of entries13
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries Sweden
Non-returning countries Bulgaria
 Greece
 Lithuania
Vote
Voting systemCitizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS message, which counts for 50%. Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. Results 1-5 are automatically displayed on-screen, then each country announces 6-8, 10 and 12 points. A jury in each country also has a 50% say in the outcome.
Winning song Netherlands
"Click Clack"

Final

Each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Sweden have only 100% jury.

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01  Sweden Swedish Mimmi Sandén "Du" You 6 68
02  Russia Russian Ekaterina Ryabova "Malenkiy prints" (Маленький принц) The little prince 2 116
03  Armenia Armenian Luara Hayrapetyan "Barcelona" (Բարսելոնա) - 2 116
04  Romania Romanian Ioana Anuța "Ai puterea în mâna ta" You got the power in hand 13 19
05  Serbia Serbian Ništa Lično "Onaj pravi" (Онаj прави) The right one 10 34
06  Georgia Georgian Group Princesses "Lurji prinveli" (ლურჯი ფრინველი) The blue bird 6 68
07  Netherlands Dutch, English Ralf Mackenbach "Click Clack" - 1 121
08  Cyprus Greek Rafaella Kosta "Thalassa, ilios, aeras, fotia"
(Θάλασσα, ήλιος, αέρας, φωτιά)
Sea, sun, air, fire 11 32
09  Malta English Francesca & Mikaela "Double Trouble" - 8 55
10  Ukraine Ukrainian Andranik Alexanyan "Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми) Three poplars, three trumpets 5 89
11  Belgium Dutch Laura Omloop "Zo verliefd (Yodelo)" So in love 4 113
12  Belarus Russian Yuriy Demidovich "Volshebniy krolik" (Волшебный кролик) The magic rabbit 9 48
13  Macedonia Macedonian Sara Markovska "Za ljubovta" (За љубовта) For love 12 31
  • The rules says that the participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they are permitted to have a few lines in a different language - as seen in the winning entry.

Score sheet

Results
Total Score Sweden Russia Armenia Romania Serbia Georgia (country) Netherlands Cyprus Malta Ukraine Belgium Belarus Republic of Macedonia
Contestants Sweden 68452536254758
Russia 11661081077107128127
Armenia 1161012671210126101081
Romania 191123
Serbia 34213323314
Georgia 68356714710652
Netherlands 1211288128888812710
Cyprus 3273211123
Malta 5524444841642
Ukraine 894712102105543105
Belgium 11381075126126125612
Belarus 48613531746
Macedonia 31562321
All countries automatically receive 12 points

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

N.Recipient nationVoting nation
4 BelgiumMacedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Serbia
3  NetherlandsBelgium, Romania, Sweden
 ArmeniaCyprus, Georgia, Russia
2 RussiaBelarus, Ukraine
1 UkraineArmenia
  • All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This is so no country gets nul points.

International broadcasts

 Azerbaijan
İctimai TV.[5]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
BHRT.[6]
 Australia
SBS1 [7]
Worldwide
A live broadcast of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was available worldwide via satellite through European streams such as TVRi, RIK Sat, RTS Sat and MKTV Sat. The official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary via the peer to peer medium Octoshape.

Commentators

  •  Armenia - Gohar Gasparyan, Tigran Danirlyan
  •  Netherlands - Sipke Jan Bousema
  •  Ukraine - Pavlo Shylko (DJ Pasha)
  •  Belgium - André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys and Jean-Louis Lahaye (RTBF)
  •  Russia - Olga Shelest

Spokespersons

References

  1. "Ukrainian broadcaster NTU has officially confirmed the date of Junior Eurovision 2009". ESCKaz. 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-20.
  2. Siim, Jarmo (2009-10-22). "Hosts for Junior 2009 chosen!". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  3. "Names of presenters of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 are known". ESCKaz. 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  4. Bakkar, Sietse (2009-06-08). "13 countries to be represented at Junior 2009!". EBU. Archived from the original on 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
  5. "İctimai Televiziya və Radio Yayımları Şirkətinin həftəlik proqramı" (in Azerbaijani). İctimai TV. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2009. (21 noyabr - Uşaq avroviziyası 2009)
  6. "BHRT to air the 2009 Junior Eurovision". Oikotimes. 2009-11-12. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  7. "SBS1 Schedule April 14, 2010". Retrieved 24 April 2010.

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