Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the seventh edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was scheduled for 21 November 2009.[1] 13 countries were confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to compete in the contest.[3]

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 Miroshnychenko
Dmytro Borodin (Green Room)
Directed bySven Stojanovic[2]
Executive supervisorSvante Stockselius[1]
Executive producerRuslan Tkachenko[2]
Host broadcasterNational Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)[1]
Websitejunioreurovision.tv/event/kyiv-2009
Participants
Number of entries13
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries Sweden
Non-returning countries
Participation map
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Vote
Voting systemEach country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song Netherlands
"Click Clack"

The contest was won by Ralf Mackenbach for the Netherlands with the song "Click Clack". At the age of 14, he was the oldest person to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in its seven-year history. He was joined by Italy's Vincenzo Cantiello who won the 2014 contest also at the age of 14. Luara Hayrapetyan achieved Armenia another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for Russia.

Both Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko were present during the final; Tymoshenko was also present and speeched during the opening ceremony on 16 November 2009.[4]

Location
Further information on the host city: Kyiv
Locations of the bidding countries. The eliminated cities are marked in red. The chosen host country is marked in blue.

Bidding phase and host selection

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited broadcasters to bid for the rights to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009; three bids were received from Belarus, Serbia, and Ukraine.[5] TV4 of Sweden had originally sent in a bid during summer 2007, but soon withdrew its bid after deciding to completely withdraw from the contest.[6]

On 6 June 2008, after deliberations by the EBU, the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) was granted the rights to the 2009 contest and confirmed they would host it in Kyiv.[7] Ukraine also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 at the same venue.

On 12 November 2009, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk declared that the contest would not be postponed; (earlier) Party of Regions member of parliament Hanna Herman had called on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to cancel the song contest because of the 2009 flu pandemic in Ukraine.[8]

Participating countries
Cover art of the official album

The EBU announced the complete list of participating countries in the 2009 contest on 8 June 2009. 13 countries competed in the contest. Sweden returned after missing the previous year's contest, while Bulgaria, Greece and Lithuania withdrew from the contest.[3]

According to the rules of the contest, participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they are permitted to have up to 25% of the song in a different language.

Prior to the event, a compilation album featuring all the songs from the 2009 contest, along with karaoke versions, was put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by Universal Music Group on 21 November 2009.

Participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009[3][9]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language[lower-alpha 1] Songwriter(s)
 Armenia AMPTV Luara Hayrapetyan "Barcelona" (Բարսելոնա) Armenian Luara Hayrapetyan
 Belarus BTRC Yury Demidovich "Volshebnyy krolik" (Волшебный кролик) Russian Yury Demidovich
 Belgium VRT Laura Omloop "Zo verliefd (Yodelo)" Dutch
 Cyprus CyBC Rafaella Costa "Thalassa, helios, aeras, fotia" (Θάλασσα, ήλιος, αέρας, φωτιά) Greek
  • Rafaella Costa
  • Martha Paradisioti
 Georgia GPB Princesses "Lurji prinveli" (ლურჯი ფრინველი) Georgian, English
  • Elene Makashvili
  • Liza Kenia
  • Irina Sanikidze
  • Zaza Tsurtsumia
 Macedonia MRT Sara Markoska "Za ljubovta" (За љубовта) Macedonian Sara Markoska
 Malta PBS Francesca and Mikaela "Double Trouble" English
  • Mikaela Bajada
  • Francesca Sciberras
 Netherlands AVRO Ralf Mackenbach "Click Clack" Dutch, English Ralf Mackenbach
 Romania TVR Ioana Anuța "Ai puterea în mâna ta" Romanian Ioana Anuța
 Russia VGTRK Ekaterina Ryabova "Malenkiy prints" (Маленький принц) Russian Ekaterina Ryabova
 Serbia RTS Ništa Lično "Onaj pravi" (Онаj прави) Serbian
  • Anica Cvetković
  • Aleksandar Graić
 Sweden TV4 Mimmi Sandén "Du" Swedish
 Ukraine NTU Andranik Alexanyan "Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми) Ukrainian
  • Andranik Alexanyan
  • Anastasiya Kravchenko
  • Maria Kravchenko
  • Sophia Zlotnyk

Format

Logo of the contest titled "Tree of life" is based on the artwork "Sunflower of life" by Maria Primachenko, a well known Ukrainian folk art painter.[10] Creative design of the show was based on the logo of the contest, works and ideas of Primachenko as well as on the concept of the show, titled "For the joy of people".[11]

Presenters

On 22 October 2009, it was revealed that Ani Lorak, Timur Miroshnychenko and Dmytro Borodin would be hosting the contest, with Borodin serving as the green room host.[12]

Contest overview

The event took place on 21 November 2009 at 21:15 EET (20:15 CET).[1][13] Thirteen countries participated, with the running order published on 13 October 2009.[14] All the countries competing were eligible to vote with the jury and televote. The Netherlands won with 121 points, with Armenia and Russia, both of whom came second, completing the top three.[15] Cyprus, Macedonia, and Romania occupied the bottom three positions.[16]

The show was opened by the children's ballet A6 and the Jazz-Step Dance Class of Volodymyr Shpudeyko; they were followed by the children's sports dancing ensemble Pulse. The interval acts included young acrobats Karyn Rudnycka and Yuriy Kuzynsky accompanied all participating contestants on stage,[2] whilst Ani Lorak performed her Eurovision 2008 entry "Shady Lady".[17]

R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1  Sweden Mimmi Sandén "Du" 68 6
2  Russia Ekaterina Ryabova "Malenkiy prints" 116 2
3  Armenia Luara Hayrapetyan "Barcelona" 116 2
4  Romania Ioana Anuța "Ai puterea în mâna ta" 19 13
5  Serbia Ništa Lično "Onaj pravi" 34 10
6  Georgia Princesses "Lurji prinveli" 68 6
7  Netherlands Ralf Mackenbach "Click Clack" 121 1
8  Cyprus Rafaella Costa "Thalassa, helios, aeras, fotia" 32 11
9  Malta Francesca and Mikaela "Double Trouble" 55 8
10  Ukraine Andranik Alexanyan "Try topoli, try surmy" 89 5
11  Belgium Laura Omloop "Zo verliefd (Yodelo)" 113 4
12  Belarus Yury Demidovich "Volshebnyy krolik" 48 9
13  Macedonia Sara Markoska "Za ljubovta" 31 12

Spokespersons
  1.  Sweden – Elise Mattison
  2.  Russia – Philip Masurov
  3.  Armenia – Razmik Arghajanyan
  4.  Romania – Iulia Ciobanu
  5.  Serbia – Nevena Božović
  6.  Georgia – Ana Davitaia
  7.  Netherlands – Marissa
  8.  Cyprus – Yiorgos Ioannides
  9.  Malta – Daniel Testa
  10.  Ukraine – Marietta
  11.  Belgium – Oliver
  12.  Belarus – Arina Aleshkevich
  13.  Macedonia – Jovana Krstevska

Detailed voting results

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. Since Sweden did not broadcast the show until the morning after, their points were made up solely by their national jury.

Voting results[18]
Voting procedure used:
  50% jury and televote
  100% jury vote
Total score
Sweden
Russia
Armenia
Romania
Serbia
Georgia
Netherlands
Cyprus
Malta
Ukraine
Belgium
Belarus
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

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received. All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting to ensure that no country finished with nul points.

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
4  Belgium Macedonia,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Serbia
3  Armenia Cyprus,  Georgia,  Russia
 Netherlands Belgium,  Romania,  Sweden
2  Russia Belarus,  Ukraine
1  Ukraine Armenia

Broadcasts

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.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
 Armenia Armenia 1 Gohar Gasparyan
 Belarus Belarus 1 Denis Kurian
 Belgium VRT Kristien Maes and Ben Roelants
 Cyprus CyBC Kyriakos Pastides
 Georgia GPB Sophia Avtunashvili
 Macedonia MTV 1 Dime Dimitrovski
 Malta TVM Valerie Vella
 Netherlands AVRO Sipke Jan Bousema
 Romania TVR Ioana Isopescu and Alexandru Nagy
 Russia Russia-1 Olga Shelest
 Serbia RTS2, RTS Sat Duška Vučinić-Lučić [19]
 Sweden TV4 Johanna Karlsson
 Ukraine NTU Mariya Orlova
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
 Australia SBS One (14 April 2010) No commentary [20]
 Azerbaijan Ictimai TV Unknown [21]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina BHT 1 Dejan Kukrić [22][23]

See also

Notes
  1. The rules stated that the participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they were permitted to have up to 25% in a different language, as seen in some entries.

References
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