Eurovision Song Contest 2000

The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the 1999 contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven" by Charlotte Nilsson. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), the contest was held at the Globe Arena on 13 May 2000. The contest was presented by Swedish television presenters Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin.

Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Dates
Final13 May 2000 (2000-05-13)
Host
VenueGlobe Arena
Stockholm, Sweden
Presenter(s)
Directed byMarius Bratten
Executive supervisorChristine Marchal-Ortiz
Executive producerSvante Stockselius
Host broadcasterSveriges Television (SVT)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/stockholm-2000
Participants
Number of entries24
Debuting countries Latvia
Returning countries
Non-returning countries
Participation map
  • A coloured map of the countries of Europe
         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2000
Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song

Twenty-four countries took part in the contest. Latvia participated for the first time, while Slovakia, Greece and Hungary decided not to compete, citing financial reasons.[1] Finland, Macedonia, Romania and Switzerland returned after their relegation from the previous edition. Russia also returned, after their last participation in 1997. Meanwhile, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia were relegated due to having the lowest average scores over the previous five editions.

The winner was Denmark with the song "Fly on the Wings of Love", performed by the Olsen Brothers and written by the oldest brother Jørgen Olsen. This was Denmark's second victory in the contest, following their win in 1963 almost 4 decades earlier. Russia, Latvia, Estonia and Germany rounded out the top five. Both Russia and Estonia achieved their best result in the contest up to this point, while Latvia achieved the best placing for a debuting country since Poland's second-place finish in 1994. On the day of their victory, Jørgen Olsen was 50 years and 61 days of age, making him the oldest artist yet to win the contest. The combined ages of the Olsen Brothers make them the oldest aged act ever to win the contest.[2]

Sponsored by Microsoft, the contest was also broadcast in Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, and via the Internet for the first time.[1]

Location
Globe Arena, Stockholm – host venue of the 2000 contest.
Locations of the candidate cities: the chosen host city is marked in blue, the shortlisted city is marked in green, while the eliminated city is marked in red.

The 2000 contest took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the 1999 edition with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven", performed by Charlotte Nilsson. It was the fourth time that Sweden had staged the contest, following the editions held in 1975, 1985 and 1992, held in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, respectively. It was the first time since 1996 that the contest was held on mainland Europe, having in the interim been held in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Israel.

Three cities were considered as host city of the contest: Stockholm, which named the Globe Arena as its venue; Gothenburg, which decided to bid with the venue of the 1985 contest, Scandinavium; and Malmö, which bid with the 1992 contest venue, the Isstadion.[3] As on previous occasions, the decision was preceded by an analysis of the possibilities of arranging the event in different places in Sweden, with the organisers eliminating the possibility of hosting the contest in Malmö, due to the proposed venue being outdated and having a comparatively small audience capacity.[3]

As Gothenburg and Stockholm progressed in the bidding phase, the selection of the host city was entrusted to television producer Sam Nilsson, who selected Stockholm for the role on 7 July 1999.[3] It was said to be chosen due to the size of the Globe Arena, accommodating a record-breaking audience of 16,000 (although the capacity was reduced to 13,000 for the show),[1] as well as due to Stockholm's last hosting being in 1975. It was also argued that it would be somewhat cheaper than the other options.[3]

Participating countries
Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Per the rules of the contest twenty-four countries were allowed to participate in the event. Finland, Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Switzerland returned after being relegated from the previous year's event. 1999 participants Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia were absent from this edition. In addition to this, Latvia debuted in the contest this year. Slovakia, Greece and Hungary decided not to compete this year, citing financial reasons.[1]

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000[4][5]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s)
 Austria ORF The Rounder Girls "All to You" English Dave Moskin
 Belgium RTBF Nathalie Sorce "Envie de vivre" French Silvio Pezzuto
 Croatia HRT Goran Karan "Kad zaspu anđeli" Croatian
 Cyprus CyBC Voice "Nomiza" (Νόμιζα) Greek, Italian
 Denmark DR Olsen Brothers "Fly on the Wings of Love" English Jørgen Olsen
 Estonia ETV Ines "Once in a Lifetime" English
 Finland YLE Nina Åström "A Little Bit" English
  • Luca Genta
  • Gerrit aan 't Goor
 France France Télévision Sofia Mestari "On aura le ciel" French
  • Benoît Heinrich
  • Pierre Legay
 Germany NDR[lower-alpha 1] Stefan Raab "Wadde hadde dudde da?" German, English Stefan Raab
 Iceland RÚV August and Telma "Tell Me!" English
 Ireland RTÉ Eamonn Toal "Millennium of Love" English
  • Gerry Simpson
  • Raymond J. Smyth
 Israel IBA PingPong "Sameach" (שמח) Hebrew[lower-alpha 2]
 Latvia LTV Brainstorm "My Star" English Renārs Kaupers
 Macedonia MRT XXL "100% te ljubam" (100% те љубам) Macedonian, English
  • Dragan Karanfilovski
  • Orče Zafirovski
 Malta PBS Claudette Pace "Desire" English[lower-alpha 3]
 Netherlands NOS Linda "No Goodbyes" English
  • Ellert Driessen
  • John O'Hare
 Norway NRK Charmed "My Heart Goes Boom" English
  • Morten Henriksen
  • Tore Madsen
 Romania TVR Taxi "The Moon"[lower-alpha 4] English Dan Teodorescu
 Russia ORT Alsou "Solo" English
 Spain TVE Serafín Zubiri "Colgado de un sueño" Spanish José María Purón
 Sweden SVT Roger Pontare "When Spirits Are Calling My Name" English
  • Peter Dahl
  • Thomas Holmstrand
  • Linda Jansson
  Switzerland SRG SSR Jane Bogaert "La vita cos'è?" Italian
  • Thomas Marin
  • Bernie Staub
 Turkey TRT Pınar and the SOS "Yorgunum Anla" Turkish, English
 United Kingdom BBC Nicki French "Don't Play That Song Again" English
  • Gerry Shephard
  • John Springate

Qualification

Due to the high number of countries wishing to enter the contest a relegation system was introduced in 1993 in order to reduce the number of countries which could compete in each year's contest. Any relegated countries would be able to return the following year, thus allowing all countries the opportunity to compete in at least one in every two editions. The relegation rules introduced for the 1997 contest were again utilised ahead of the 2000 contest, based on each country's average points total in previous contests. The twenty-four participants were made up of the previous year's winning country, "Big Four" countries, the thirteen countries which had obtained the highest average points total over the preceding five contests, and any eligible countries which did not compete in the 1999 contest. In cases where the average was identical between two or more countries the total number of points scored in the most recent contest determined the final order.[7]

A new addition to the relegation rules specified that for the 2000 contest and future editions the four largest financial contributors to the contest – Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Spain – would automatically qualify each year and be exempt from relegation. This new "Big Four" group of countries was created to ensure the financial viability of the event and was prompted by a number of poor results in previous years for some of the countries, which if occurred again in 1999 could have resulted in those countries being relegated from 2000 contest.[7]

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia were therefore excluded from participating in the 2000 contest, to make way for the return of Finland, Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Switzerland, and debuting country Latvia.

The calculations used to determine the countries relegated for the 2000 contest are outlined in the table below.[7]

Table key

  Automatic qualifier
  Qualifier
Calculation of average points to determine qualification for the 2000 contest[lower-alpha 5]
Rank Country Average Yearly point totals[8][9][10][11][12]
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
1  United Kingdom 116.80 767722716638
2  Israel 115.33 81DNQ17293
3  Sweden 90.40 1001003653163
4  Ireland 89.00 441621576418
5  Croatia 84.60 91982413179[lower-alpha 6]
6  Malta 81.40 76686616532
7  Netherlands 76.00 78515071
8  Estonia 75.50 94823690
9  Norway 75.20 14811407935
10  Denmark 62.67 92DNQ2571
11  Germany 62.25 1DNQ2286140
12  Iceland 61.50 315118146
13  Cyprus 57.60 797298372
14  Austria 53.00 67681265
15  Spain 50.80 1191796211
16  Turkey 49.00 21571212521
17  Belgium 47.50 82212238
18  Slovenia 45.40 8416601750
19  France 44.80 941895314
20  Bosnia and Herzegovina 33.75 14132286
21  Portugal 29.00 59203612
22  Poland 27.20 1531541917
23  Lithuania 13.00 13

Returning artists

The contest featured three representatives who had previously performed as lead artists. Members of duet Voice, representing Cyprus, both took part in the contest in the past – Alexandros Panayi made a second appearance in the contest, having previously represented Cyprus in 1995, also previously serving as the backing singer for Fani Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis in 1989 and Elena Patroklou in 1991; while his partner Christina Argyri provided him with backing vocals when he took part in the 1995 contest.[14] Sweden selected Roger Pontare, who previously competed in the 1994 contest together with Marie Bergman,[15] while Serafin Zubiri previously represented Spain in 1992.[16] In addition, German entrant Stefan Raab was the conductor for his country's entry in 1998,[17] while Ireland's representative Eamonn Toal provided backing vocals for Eddie Friel in 1995.

Production

The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). Svante Stockselius served as executive producer, Mattias Bratten served as director and Christine Marchal-Ortiz served as Executive Supervisor. Television presenters Kattis Åhlström and Anders Lundin were the presenters of the 2000 contest.[18]

The graphic design for this year's contest was developed by Stockholm Design Lab and was centred around a stylised mouth logo. It was given the Excellent Swedish Design award later that year.[19] It was described by its designers as "a sensual, yet stylistically pure mouth representing song, dialogue and speech", and was later one of the possible choices for the generic logo introduced at the 2004 contest.[1] The softness of the mouth was contrasted with a pointy typeface, made specifically for the contest. During each performance, a distorted version of each performing country's flag would be shown within the mouth next to the stage. Logo for 2000 contest was presented on 17 February 2000.[20]

The draw to the determine the running order of competing countries was held on 21 November 1999.[7][21]

Cover art of the official album

A compilation album featuring all 24 competing entries was released on 13 May 2000, the day of the contest, by EMI Records and CMC International.[22][23]

Format

Entries

Each participating broadcaster was represented in the contest by one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration. A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance, and all performers must have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest. Selected entries were not permitted to be released commercially before 1 January 2000, and were then only allowed to be released in the country they represented until after the contest was held. Entries were required to be selected by each country's participating broadcaster by 28 February, and the final submission date for all selected entries to be received by the contest organisers was set for 10 March. This submission was required to include a sound recording of the entry and backing track for use during the contest, a video presentation of the song on stage being performed by the artists, and the text of the song lyrics in its original language and translations in French and English for distribution to the participating broadcasters, their commentators and juries.[7]

Voting procedure
Further information: Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest

The results of the 2000 contest were determined through the same scoring system as had first been introduced in 1975: each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry. Each participating country was required to use televoting to determine their points. Viewers had a total of five minutes to register their vote by calling one of twenty-three different telephone numbers to represent the twenty-four competing entries except that which represented their own country, with voting lines opening following the performance of the last competing entry. Once phone lines were opened a video recap containing short clips of each competing entry with the accompanying phone number for voting was shown in order to aid viewers during the voting window. Systems were also put in place to prevent lobby groups from one country voting for their song by travelling to other countries.[7]

Countries which were unable to hold a televote due to technological limitations were granted an exception, and their points were determined by an assembled jury of eight individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, comprised additionally of an equal number of men and women, and below and above 30 years of age. Countries using televoting were also required to appoint a back-up jury of the same composition which would be called into action upon technical failure preventing the televote results from being used. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and ten votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country's performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded. In any cases where two or more songs in the top ten received the same number of votes, a show of hands by all jury members was used to determine the final placing; if a tie still remained, the youngest jury member would have the deciding vote.[7]

Postcards

Each entry was preceded by a video postcard which served as an introduction to the competing artists from each country, as well as providing an opportunity to showcase the running artistic theme of the event and creating a transition between entries to allow stage crew to make changes on stage.[24][25] The postcards used to introduce each country participating involved themes that incorporated each nation in some respect. All the postcards were filmed in Stockholm, except for the Swedish postcard, which was filmed in Germany. The following locations and themes were used:

  1.  Israel – Amos Oz, Stockholm Public Library
  2.  Netherlands – Scientists from the Netherlands , Microbiology Centre In Stockholm
  3.  United Kingdom – Stuart Baxter, Råsunda Stadium
  4.  Estonia – Choir from Estonia, an Apartment in Stockholm
  5.  France – Club music from France, a Night-club in Stockholm
  6.  Romania – Dracula, Royal Opera in Stockholm
  7.  Malta – A ship with the Maltese cross on its sail, Stockholm harbour
  8.  Norway – Petrol from Norway, Stockhom City Centre
  9.  Russia – "Three Sisters" by Chekhov, Royal Dramatic Theatre
  10.  Belgium – chien de Saint-Hubert, a neighbourhood in Stockholm
  11.  Cyprus – Oranges from Cyprus, an underground station in Stockholm
  12.  Iceland – Horses from Iceland, a forest outside Stockholm
  13.  Spain – Rafael Moneo, Moderna Museet
  14.  Denmark – A lamp from Denmark, an apartment build in Stockholm
  15.  Germany – Knackwurst, a street in Stockholm
  16.   Switzerland – Timing, Eriksdalsbadet swimming arena
  17.  Croatia – Fausto Veranzio, an airplance flying above Stockholm
  18.  Sweden – Eurovision Song Contest, Expo 2000
  19.  Macedonia – Before the Rain, a cinema in Stockholm
  20.  Finland – A ferry from Finland, Stockholm Archipelago
  21.  Latvia – Pickled mushrooms, a restaurant in Stockholm
  22.  Turkey – Mahir Çağrı, an internet office in Stockholm
  23.  Ireland – Irish stepdance, a dance studio in Stockholm
  24.  Austria – Suntan from a ski holiday, Arlanda Airport

Contest overview
Olsen Brothers brought Denmark its second Eurovision Song Contest victory.

The contest took place on 13 May 2000. The table below outlines the participating countries, the order in which they performed, the competing artists and songs, and the results of the voting.[18]

The opening of the competition began with a video about contemporary Sweden. The mouth of the logo, superimposed on the images, spelled out the names of the twenty-four participating countries. The video ended with an aerial view of the Globen. The camera then showed the interior of the Globen Arena plunged into darkness, then made a close-up on the stage. Caroline Lundgren, violinist of the Stockholm Youth Symphony Orchestra, dressed in a traditional Swedish costume, appeared and exclaimed: "Welcome Europe!" The stage then lit up and the spectators began to applaud. The five decorative pillars moved apart to give way to Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin. They concluded the opening with the customary greetings, which they pronounced by mixing the national languages of the participating countries.

The interval-act began with a violin solo, performed by Caroline Lundgren. Then came a video titled "Once Upon a Time Europe Was Covered With Ice", a movie/song directed, composed and edited by Johan Söderberg and produced by John Nordling.[26] After the video, violinist Caroline Lundgren reappeared on the stage with drummer Strängnäs Trumkorps plus street musicians from Stockholm and dancers from the Bounce Streetdance Company.

The winner was Denmark represented by the song "Fly on the Wings of Love", composed and written by Jørgen Olsen and performed by Olsen Brothers. This marked Denmark's second victory in the contest, following its first win in 1963.[27] Belgium meanwhile finished in last place for the eighth time.[28]

Prior to the contest Estonia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands were the favorites to win, with internet polls topped by the last two entries. It therefore came as a surprise to many when Denmark ended up winning, because Denmark was not a pre-contest favorite. Russia finished second and after the contest the Russian delegation petitioned for the disqualification of the winner because a vocoder had been used during the performance. This was not upheld by the EBU.[18]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000[29][30]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1  Israel PingPong "Sameach" 7 22
2  Netherlands Linda "No Goodbyes" 40 13
3  United Kingdom Nicki French "Don't Play That Song Again" 28 16
4  Estonia Ines "Once in a Lifetime" 98 4
5  France Sofia Mestari "On aura le ciel" 5 23
6  Romania Taxi "The Moon"[lower-alpha 4] 25 17
7  Malta Claudette Pace "Desire" 73 8
8  Norway Charmed "My Heart Goes Boom" 57 11
9  Russia Alsou "Solo" 155 2
10  Belgium Nathalie Sorce "Envie de vivre" 2 24
11  Cyprus Voice "Nomiza" 8 21
12  Iceland August and Telma "Tell Me!" 45 12
13  Spain Serafín Zubiri "Colgado de un sueño" 18 18
14  Denmark Olsen Brothers "Fly on the Wings of Love" 195 1
15  Germany Stefan Raab "Wadde hadde dudde da?" 96 5
16   Switzerland Jane Bogaert "La vita cos'è?" 14 20
17  Croatia Goran Karan "Kad zaspu anđeli" 70 9
18  Sweden Roger Pontare "When Spirits Are Calling My Name" 88 7
19  Macedonia XXL "100% te ljubam" 29 15
20  Finland Nina Åström "A Little Bit" 18 18
21  Latvia Brainstorm "My Star" 136 3
22  Turkey Pınar and the SOS "Yorgunum Anla" 59 10
23  Ireland Eamonn Toal "Millennium of Love" 92 6
24  Austria The Rounder Girls "All to You" 34 14

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country.[31][7] As had been the case since the 1994 contest, the spokespersons were connected via satellite and appeared in vision during the broadcast.[32] Spokespersons at the 2000 contest are listed below.[33]

  1.  Israel – Yoav Ginai
  2.  Netherlands – Marlayne
  3.  United Kingdom – Colin Berry
  4.  Estonia – Evelin Samuel[34]
  5.  France – Marie Myriam
  6.  Romania – Andreea Marin
  7.  Malta – Valerie Vella[35]
  8.  Norway – Marit Åslein
  9.  Russia – Zhanna Agalakova[36]
  10.  Belgium – Thomas Van Hamme
  11.  Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos
  12.  Iceland – Ragnheiður Elín Clausen
  13.  Spain – Hugo de Campos
  14.  Denmark – Michael Teschl
  15.  Germany – Axel Bulthaupt
  16.   Switzerland – Astrid von Stockar
  17.  Croatia – Marko Rašica
  18.  Sweden – Malin Ekander[37]
  19.  Macedonia – Sandra Todorovska
  20.  Finland – Pia Mäkinen
  21.  Latvia – Lauris Reiniks[38]
  22.  Turkey – Osman Erkan
  23.  Ireland – Derek Mooney[39]
  24.  Austria – Dodo Roscic

Detailed voting results

According to the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, all participating countries should have used televoting, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s). In the televoting household shall not be permitted to vote more than three times. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible, a jury was used instead:[7] Russia, Macedonia, Turkey, Netherlands[lower-alpha 7], Romania and Latvia.[38] The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in ascending order.[7] The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below.

Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000[41][42]
Voting procedure used:
  100% televoting
  100% jury vote
Total score
Israel
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Estonia
France
Romania
Malta
Norway
Russia
Belgium
Cyprus
Iceland
Spain
Denmark
Germany
Switzerland
Croatia
Sweden
Macedonia
Finland
Latvia
Turkey
Ireland
Austria
Contestants
 Israel 761
Netherlands 4082585141231
United Kingdom 2812363436
Estonia 986746742654566810273
France 523
Romania 256712
Malta 733121728181338384532
Norway 5773337776104
Russia 155108105121287128564212575107
Belgium 22
Cyprus 8134
Iceland 455671287
Spain 1852101
Denmark 195121012871810121041210121012101211210
Germany 968510346612212128512
Switzerland 146521
Croatia 70881026610686
Sweden 8865145546108367126
Macedonia 29107210
Finland 185742
Latvia 1364471231211211078771031288
Turkey 5912121311051545
Ireland 922310442106472358541174
Austria 341238243542

12 points

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold. Denmark received the maximum score of 12 points from eight of the voting countries, with Latvia and Russia receiving four sets of 12 points each, Germany receiving three sets, Turkey receiving two, and Iceland, Romania and Sweden each receiving one maximum score.[41][42]

Distribution of 12 points awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000[41][42]
N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
8  Denmark Germany,  Iceland,  Ireland,  Israel,  Latvia,  Russia,  Sweden,  United Kingdom
4  Latvia Belgium,  Estonia,  Finland,  Norway
 Russia Croatia,  Cyprus,  Malta,  Romania
3  Germany Austria,  Spain,   Switzerland
2  Turkey France,  Netherlands
1  Iceland Denmark
 Romania Macedonia
 Sweden Turkey

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay live and in full the contest via television. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants"; any passive countries wishing to participate in the following year's event were also required to provide a live broadcast of the contest or a deferred broadcast within 24 hours.[7] Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators, are shown in the tables below.

Sponsored by Microsoft, the contest was also broadcast in Canada, Australia, Jordan, Japan, the United States, and via the Internet for the first time, through all 18 European MSN sites.[43]

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF ORF 1 Andi Knoll [44][45]
FM4 Stermann & Grissemann
 Belgium RTBF La Une Jean-Pierre Hautier [46]
VRT TV1 André Vermeulen and Anja Daems [47][48]
 Croatia HRT HRT 1 Unknown [49]
 Cyprus CyBC Unknown Evi Papamichail [50]
 Denmark DR DR1 Keld Heick [51][52]
 Estonia ETV Marko Reikop [34]
ER Raadio 2
 Finland YLE TV1 Jani Juntunen [34][53][54]
Radio Suomi Iris Mattila and Tarja Närhi
 France France Télévision France 3 Julien Lepers [55]
TV5[lower-alpha 8]
 Germany ARD Das Erste Peter Urban [56]
 Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið Gísli Marteinn Baldursson [57]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ One Marty Whelan [58][59][60]
RTÉ Radio 1 Larry Gogan
 Israel IBA Unknown Unknown [61]
 Latvia LTV Unknown Kārlis Streips [62]
 Macedonia MRT Unknown Unknown [63]
 Malta PBS TVM Unknown [64]
 Netherlands NPO Nederland 2[lower-alpha 9] Willem van Beusekom [47]
 Norway NRK NRK1 Jostein Pedersen [51][66][67]
NRK P1 Stein Dag Jensen
 Romania TVR Unknown Leonard Miron [68][69]
Radio România Actualități Ștefan Naftanailă
 Russia ORT Unknown [34][70]
 Spain TVE La Primera, TVE Internacional José Luis Uribarri [55][71][72]
 Sweden SVT SVT2, SVT Europa Pernilla Månsson Colt and Christer Lundh [37][51][73]
SR SR P4 Carolina Norén [37]
  Switzerland SRG SSR SF 2 Sandra Studer [44][55]
TSR 1 Jean-Marc Richard
TSI 1 Jonathan Tedesco
 Turkey TRT TRT 1, TRT Int Unknown [74]
 United Kingdom BBC BBC One, BBC Prime Terry Wogan [55][75][76]
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Australia SBS SBS TV[lower-alpha 10] Unknown [77]
 Greece ERT Unknown Dafni Bokota [78]
 Lithuania LRT LRT Darius Užkuraitis [79]
 Japan NHK NHK BS2[lower-alpha 11] Unknown [80]
 Poland TVP Unknown Artur Orzech [81]
 Portugal RTP RTP1,[lower-alpha 12] RTP Internacional Eládio Clímaco [55][82][83]
 Slovenia RTVSLO SLO 1 Unknown [49]

Incidents

There were some controversies concerning some participating countries. Israel, who opened the contest, entered a group who waved Israeli and Syrian flags advocating peace between the two nations. The two male singers in the group also ran up to each other and kissed for a brief moment.[84]

The Russian delegation petitioned for the winning Olsen Brothers to be disqualified, after they had used a vocoder to give Jørgen Olsen an electronic sound to his voice, during one of the verses of their performance. This issue was rejected by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).[1]

In the Netherlands, NOS decided to take the contest off air halfway through because of the Enschede fireworks disaster that happened earlier that day, so it could use the channel for continuous news broadcasts. Later, NOS declared that it was both for practical reasons as well as because they found it "inappropriate to broadcast a light entertainment programme on the night of such a catastrophic event". As a result, televoting had to be suspended and the Dutch votes were given by a stand-by jury instead.[1] The contest was later rebroadcast in full on 12 June 2000.[65]

Other awards

Barbara Dex Award

The Barbara Dex Award is the award, created by fansite House of Eurovision, was awarded to the performer deemed to have been the "worst dressed" among the participants.[85][86] The winner in 2000 was Belgium's representative Nathalie Sorce, as determined by the visitors of the website House of Eurovision.[87][88][89]

Notes and references

Notes
  1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[6]
  2. Contains some words in English
  3. Contains some words in Maltese
  4. Performed under the Romanian title "Luna"
  5. Determined by totalling all points awarded in the past five contests and dividing by the number of times that country had participated.[7]
  6. Croatia's score from the 1999 contest was reduced by 33% for the purposes of determining average scores due to the use of synthesised pre-recorded vocals in that year's Croatian entry.[13]
  7. The Dutch votes were provided by a backup jury following interruption to the broadcast of the contest in the Netherlands as a result of the fireworks disaster in the Dutch city of Enschede.[40]
  8. Deferred broadcast on 14 May at 01:05 CEST (00:05 UTC)[55]
  9. The live broadcast of the contest in the Netherlands was suspended partway through in order to provide emergency news coverage of the Enschede fireworks disaster.[1] The contest was later broadcast in a summary format lasting one hour and fifty minutes on 12 June 2000 at 13:50 CEST (11:50 UTC).[65]
  10. Deferred broadcast on 14 May at 20:30 AEST (10:30 UTC)[77]
  11. Delayed broadcast on 14 July 2000 at 19:35 JST (10:35 UTC)[80]
  12. Deferred broadcast on RTP1 at 23:00 WEST (22:00 UTC)[82]

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