Junior Eurovision Forum

Pacha · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:40 am Post subject:

There is a doubt that I have...

Will be Croatia on JESC2007?

I said that because of this notice

(extracted from esctoday.com)

The EBU will investigate Croatian broadcaster HRT's decision not to broadcast the Junior Eurovision Song Contest on a national channel. HRT reneged on its promise to the EBU to broadcast the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest live on a national station and thus broke the rules of competition. The show was live only on Satelite channel HRT Plus, leaving many Croatians unable to see the show or to watch on Bosnian or Serbian stations.
Speaking exclusively to esctoday.com immediately after the show, Svante Stockselius told esctoday.com:
"This is a violation of the rules and we will have to see what happened and what is to be done".
esctoday.com asked if there could be a punishment for breaking this rule and was told:
"The steering committee of the Eurovision Song Contest will look at this matter, but there is a clear violation of the rules and a penalty or punishment of some kind is possible, yes".
esctoday.com then asked whether these penalties could apply at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, or whether it would only apply to the Junior Eurovision Contest. Mr. Stockselius explained:
"No the two competitions are completely separate, any punishment would only apply to the Junior competition".
It also remains to be confirmed whether or not enough people were able to watch the show fo rthe televote to be valid, or whether the Croatian vote came from the back-up jury.
esctoday.com will investigate this matter further with our partner-site www.eurovision-croatia.com, who raised the alarm bells earlier this week. esctoday.com immediately contacted HRT and were told on Tuesday by the international relations department that HRT would broadcast the show live on their main channel!
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Charr-jesf-freak · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

I hope England come back,
BTW I hope Letland end France come back to.
It would be cool if Deutschland enterd someone to.
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Wikulinka-POLAND:D · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject:

i want Poland Crying or Very sad

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eliisa · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject:

I want all the countries to come back!
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JulyY* · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

Caroline · Si On Voulait Bien Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2195

A little better with 13 of course. I don`t hope and I don`t think Scandinavia returns. They were fighting for new rules. EBU didn`t agree and that was why they withdrew. Why should they suddenly do it next year?

Martina · Rock Baby Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 131 Location: Poland

What's a rules? I supposed they gived up...
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Caroline · Si On Voulait Bien Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2195

20 I think..

cool kid · Tantsui Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 1988

SASDG · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:28 am Post subject:

Caroline · Si On Voulait Bien Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2195

oh maybe 20 was an older number because I am sure I read that in an interweiw with Svante Stockselius after jesc 2004.
They have a limit because it is a kid program and they doesn´t want it to be too big and the program to be too long. I think it is good.

cool kid · Tantsui Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 1988

Or maybe that was the old limit and 20 is the new one??
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Caroline · Si On Voulait Bien Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2195

yeah that maybe because I found it again now it was after jesc 2005 he said it "next year we may have 20 countries but that will also be the limit"

Isabella · Site Admin Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 1928

yeh i agree, there shouldn't be more than 20 countries participating, if they don't put a limit to it, maybe someday they'll have to do a semi-final thing like esc

but i don't think there will be 20 countries in jesc next year

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