Eurovision Song Contest 1980 (Redirected from 1980 Eurovision Song Contest)

Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Dates
Final19 April 1980
Host
VenueNederlands Congresgebouw
The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s)
Musical directorRogier van Otterloo
Directed byTheo Ordeman
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Executive producerFred Oster
Host broadcasterNederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries19
Debuting countries Morocco
Returning countries Turkey
Non-returning countries
Participation map
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Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song Ireland
"What's Another Year"
1979 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1981

The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague, Netherlands, and was organised by host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) – which agreed to stage the event after Israel, having won in both 1978 and 1979, declined to host it for a second successive year – and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest was held at the Nederlands Congresgebouw on 19 April 1980 and was hosted by Dutch actress Marlous Fluitsma, although each song was introduced by a presenter from the participating nation (in some cases, this was the same person providing the commentary).

Nineteen countries took part this year, with Monaco and the previous year's winner Israel deciding not to participate, and Turkey returning. Morocco, notably, made its only appearance in the contest.

The winner was Ireland with the song "What's Another Year", sung by Johnny Logan and written by Shay Healy.

Location

Nederlands Congresgebouw, host venue of the 1980 contest

Israel, the winner of the 1979 contest, declined to host it for the second time in a row, as the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) could not fund another international production without extra resources, and the Israeli government turned down a request to extend the IBA budget. The EBU also scheduled the broadcast for the same day as the Yom HaZikaron holiday, which meant that Israel could not even participate at all, marking the first time that the previous year's winning country did not compete the following year. After Spain – the second-placed country of 1979 – and (reportedly) the United Kingdom both declined to host, the Netherlands ultimately agreed to host the show in a small-scale production. According to the first minister Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid who was then the IBA director general, his father called his then counterpart at NOS and convinced him to take the "undesired honour", when he realised that the extra cost could paralyse the regular work of the IBA.

The contest took place in The Hague at the Congresgebouw (presently known as the World Forum). The venue was constructed in 1969 and had previously hosted the contest in 1976.

Participating countries

Katja Ebstein
Maggie MacNeal

After Israel announced its non-participation, Morocco entered into the contest instead. Monaco also withdrew from the contest, and would not return until 2004.

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
 Austria ORF Blue Danube "Du bist Musik" German Klaus-Peter Sattler Richard Oesterreicher
 Belgium RTBF Telex "Euro-Vision" French No conductor
 Denmark DR Bamses Venner "Tænker altid på dig" Danish
Allan Botschinsky
 Finland YLE Vesa-Matti Loiri "Huilumies" Finnish Ossi Runne
 France TF1 Profil "Hé, hé m'sieurs dames" French
  • Richard de Bordeaux
  • Richard Joffo
  • Sylvano Santorio
Sylvano Santorio
 Germany BR Katja Ebstein "Theater" German Wolfgang Rödelberger
 Greece ERT Anna Vissi and the Epikouri "Autostop" (Ωτοστόπ) Greek
  • Jick Nacassian
  • Rony Sofou
Jick Nacassian
 Ireland RTÉ Johnny Logan "What's Another Year" English Shay Healy Noel Kelehan
 Italy RAI Alan Sorrenti "Non so che darei" Italian Alan Sorrenti Del Newman
 Luxembourg CLT Sophie and Magaly "Papa Pingouin" French
Norbert Daum
 Morocco RTM Samira Bensaïd "Bitakat Hob" (بطاقة حب) Arabic
  • Abdel Ati Amenna
  • Malou Rouanne
Jean Claudric
 Netherlands NOS Maggie MacNeal "Amsterdam" Dutch
Rogier van Otterloo
 Norway NRK Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta "Sámiid ædnan" Norwegian
Sigurd Jansen
 Portugal RTP José Cid "Um grande, grande amor" Portuguese José Cid Jorge Machado
 Spain TVE Trigo Limpio "Quédate esta noche" Spanish José Antonio Martín Javier Iturralde
 Sweden SVT Tomas Ledin "Just nu" Swedish Tomas Ledin Anders Berglund
  Switzerland SRG SSR Paola "Cinéma" French Peter Reber
 Turkey TRT Ajda Pekkan "Pet'r Oil" Turkish
Attila Özdemiroğlu
 United Kingdom BBC Prima Donna "Love Enough for Two" English
John Coleman

Returning artists

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Paola del Medico   Switzerland 1969
Katja Ebstein  Germany 1970, 1971
Maggie MacNeal  Netherlands 1974 (part of Mouth and MacNeal)

Format

For security reasons, NOS decided that the same scheme applied during the 1976 contest, the Congresgebouw, was again chosen to stage the contest.But this time with a smaller scale.As they had a little time available and a lower budget.This led the production to recycle several elements of the that contest such as opening video sequence and various scenic elements that comes from another NOS departments productions. Again, Roland de Groot took charge of the design. As with the 1977 and 1978 contests, there were no pre-filmed postcards between the songs, with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the entries. Apart from this, the presenter, Marlous Fluitsma practically presented the contest almost entirely in Dutch, with exceptions in the protocol parts and in the voting where she used French and English according to tradition.Thus, the broadcaster host spent only US$725,000 on production.

Song presenters

Each of the 19 contestants was presented by a persons who come from that respective country.In some cases,the respective broadcaster used theircommentator who was in The Hague for the contest,as the Netherlands were presented by the own Marlous. Each of the songs was introduced in one of the official languages of the competing country. The UK presenter was incorrectly identified in the onscreen caption as 'Noel Edmunds' and the Finnish presenter as 'Heikki Haarma'.

Contest overview

During the live interval act performance of San Fernando by The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band with the Lee Jackson dancers, Hans van Willigenburg intercut brief interviews with some of the participants backstage in the green room, speaking to the singers from Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands, each in their own language.

Australian-born Johnny Logan, representing his parents' country Ireland, was ultimately crowned the winner with the song "What's Another Year". This was Ireland's second victory in the competition, having previously won in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", coincidentally also held on Dutch soil. It was also the first time that a male solo artist (albeit with backing vocals) had won the contest since Udo Jürgens won for Austria in 1966.

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1980
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1  Austria Blue Danube "Du bist Musik" 64 8
2  Turkey Ajda Pekkan "Pet'r Oil" 23 15
3  Greece Anna Vissi and the Epikouri "Autostop" 30 13
4  Luxembourg Sophie and Magaly "Papa Pingouin" 56 9
5  Morocco Samira Bensaïd "Bitakat Hob" 7 18
6  Italy Alan Sorrenti "Non so che darei" 87 6
7  Denmark Bamses Venner "Tænker altid på dig" 25 14
8  Sweden Tomas Ledin "Just nu" 47 10
9   Switzerland Paola "Cinéma" 104 4
10  Finland Vesa-Matti Loiri "Huilumies" 6 19
11  Norway Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta "Sámiid ædnan" 15 16
12  Germany Katja Ebstein "Theater" 128 2
13  United Kingdom Prima Donna "Love Enough for Two" 106 3
14  Portugal José Cid "Um grande, grande amor" 71 7
15  Netherlands Maggie MacNeal "Amsterdam" 93 5
16  France Profil "Hé, hé m'sieurs dames" 45 11
17  Ireland Johnny Logan "What's Another Year" 143 1
18  Spain Trigo Limpio "Quédate esta noche" 38 12
19  Belgium Telex "Euro-Vision" 14 17

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1980 contest are listed below.

  •  Denmark – Bent Evold
  •  Italy – Mariolina Cannuli [it]
  •  Sweden – Arne Weise
  •  Turkey – Başak Doğru [tr]
  •  United Kingdom – Ray Moore

Detailed voting results

Johnny Logan performing his winning song "What's Another Year"

The scoring system implemented in 1975 remained the same; each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. However this year for the first time, countries were required to declare their scores in ascending order, 1,2,3 etc. This change made for the added excitement of waiting for each country to award their highest 12 points at the end of each voting round.

For the voting sequence, Marlous Fluitsma used a unique telephone to speak to the nineteen jury spokespersons, although the phones were simply props and were not connected.

Detailed voting results
Total score
Austria
Turkey
Greece
Luxembourg
Morocco
Italy
Denmark
Sweden
Switzerland
Finland
Norway
Germany
United Kingdom
Portugal
Netherlands
France
Ireland
Spain
Belgium
Contestants
Austria 64 1 3 4 5 1 4 5 6 4 6 3 3 4 10 4 1
Turkey 23 3 12 8
Greece 30 5 1 2 2 4 3 1 8 4
Luxembourg 56 1 1 4 6 3 7 8 7 8 3 8
Morocco 7 7
Italy 87 2 6 2 3 10 8 6 2 7 4 12 1 2 2 10 10
Denmark 25 4 2 6 7 1 5
Sweden 47 8 10 10 6 5 5 2 1
Switzerland 104 6 2 5 7 3 8 2 12 10 10 7 6 10 12 2 2
Finland 6 5 1
Norway 15 4 6 2 3
Germany 128 8 10 3 10 12 7 5 7 2 10 8 12 10 5 12 7
United Kingdom 106 7 5 8 8 10 12 10 4 3 7 7 5 6 8 6
Portugal 71 4 5 4 10 6 8 2 1 8 1 5 6 7 4
Netherlands 93 12 12 6 12 3 3 10 8 2 4 12 1 5 3
France 45 3 7 2 1 1 4 1 3 5 4 3 6 5
Ireland 143 10 12 7 1 12 7 12 8 12 12 12 5 6 8 7 12
Spain 38 4 7 8 6 5 6 2
Belgium 14 3 1 10

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
7  Ireland  Belgium,  Denmark,  Germany,  Greece,  Norway,   Switzerland,  United Kingdom
4  Netherlands  Austria,  France,  Luxembourg,  Turkey
3  Germany  Italy,  Netherlands,  Spain
2   Switzerland  Finland,  Ireland
1  Italy  Portugal
 Turkey  Morocco
 United Kingdom  Sweden

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". 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 television viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF FS2 Ernst Grissemann
 Belgium RTBF RTBF1 Unknown
BRT TV1 Unknown
 Denmark DR DR TV Jørgen de Mylius
 Finland YLE TV1, Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi] Heikki Harma
 France TF1 Patrick Sabatier
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Ado Schlier [de]
 Greece ERT ERT Mako Georgiadou [el]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ 1 Larry Gogan
RTÉ Radio 1 Unknown
 Italy RAI Rete Due Michele Gammino
 Luxembourg CLT RTL Télé-Luxembourg Jacques Navadic
 Morocco RTM RTM Unknown
 Netherlands NOS Nederland 2 Pim Jacobs
Hilversum 1 Willem van Beusekom
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet Knut Aunbu
NRK Erik Heyerdahl [no]
 Portugal RTP RTP1 Unknown
RDP Programa 1 Unknown
 Spain TVE TVE 1 Miguel de los Santos [es]
 Sweden SVT TV1 Ulf Elfving
RR [sv] SR P3 Kent Finell
  Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Theodor Haller [de]
TSR Georges Hardy [fr]
TSI Unknown
 Turkey TRT TRT Televizyon Unknown
 United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Terry Wogan
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 Steve Jones
BFBS BFBS Radio Andrew Pastouna
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið Björn Baldursson
 Israel IBA Israeli Television Unknown
Reshet Bet [he], Reshet Gimel [he] Unknown

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