Junior Eurovision 2009

Junior Eurovision 2009

Kiev - Ukraine - 21-Nov-2009

Live online via www.junioreurovision.tv

Location Ukraine
Host Broadcaster NTU
Venue Kyiv Sports Palace
Date Saturday, November 21, 2009
Participants 13
Executive Producer Ruslan Tkachenko
Director Sven Stojanovic

Voting method
Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS, which counts for 50%. Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of vote. A jury in each country also has a 50% say in the outcome.

The 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place on the 21st of November in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Participants

01 Sweden
TV4 Mimmi Sandén
Du

02 Russia
RTR Ekaterina Ryabova
Malenky Prints

03 Armenia
AMPTV Luara Hayrapetyan
Barcelona

04 Romania
TVR Ioana Anuþa
Ai Puterea în Mâna Ta - You Have The Power In Your Hand

05 Serbia
RTS Ništa Lièno
Onaj Pravi

06 Georgia
GPB Group Princesses
Blue Bird

07 The Netherlands
AVRO Ralf Mackenbach
Click Clack

08 Cyprus
CyBC Rafaella Costa
Thalassa, Helios, Aeras, Fotia

09 Malta
MTPBS Francesca & Mikaela
Double Trouble

10 Ukraine
NTU Andranik Aleksanyan
Try Topoli, Try Surmy

11 Belgium
VRT Laura
Zo Verliefd (Yodelo)

12 Belarus
BTRC Yury Demidovich
Volshebnyi Krolik

13 F.Y.R. Macedonia
MKRTV Sara Markoska
Za Ljubovta

didn't the UK pull out of this because it was crap? also is there UK channels showing it?

I'm sure Tumbler will be watching!

ITV was going to host this one year but when they saw how expensive it was going to be they bailed out.

Why thwy keep on creating these eurovision spinoffs I have no idea, as this and the dance contest are just awful.

7.15 UK time, not being shown in the UK hence the link to the Octoshape player.

sounds fun, what are the ages of the contestants

It looks like that weird thread thing has happened again.

I'm sure it's just a conspiracy to stop tumble tower from posting...

ITV pulled out because it flopped in the ratings. It was then relegated to ITV2 the following year, then IIRC "we" won, meaning the next competition was to be held here, and Granada complained because the budget that Junior Eurovision handed them was nowhere near enough to stage the event. It went off to Norway after that at very short notice and now isn't shown anywhere in the UK. Presumably on the basis it doesn't attract a big enough audience on ITV1 so what chance do smaller channels have.

Of course now we don't show the event we have no need for an entry, since nobody practically saw it on ITV2 so I can only presume it was a contractual agreement to air that year's event.

I watched it on ITV1 in 2003 and ITV2 in 2004 and 2005.

In 2006 it wasn't shown in the UK as the UK didn't enter that year, nor since. I would have liked to have seen the webcast online, but my computer of the time: Packard-Bell PB 1050 with 128 Mb RAM, 1GHz Athlon CPU and Windows 98SE wasn't powerful enough to run OctoShape, worse luck . I was still in the same situation in 2007.

Christmas 2007 I got my current PC, Acer M1100 which is much more powerful (loads more RAM, dual core processor, Windows Vista Home Premium), so last year (2008) I was able to download OctoShape and watch the webcast.

I was hoping to watch it tonight, but yesterday and today my AOL Broadband connection has been extremely slow, pushing my patience and tolerance to the limit. Last night I saw the posts appear one by one on the CIN 09 thread! BBC iPlayer and YouTube give me a few seconds, then a long delay for more buffering. I've so far only got a couple seconds of JESC before it ground to a halt. As far as I understand, JESC 09 will still be available to watch online from tomorrow onwards, so hopefully I'll be able to sit and watch it once my AOL Broadband speed is back up to full speed I should be getting here.

So basically, in 2006 and 2007 I didn't have a powerful enough PC to watch the web cast, this year I do have a powerful enough PC but the internet connection is running to slowly, worse luck!

Ironically last Saturday it was working well, I uploaded a batch of snaps from my recent holiday in Cornwall to Flickr, and had no problem watching YouTube videos. If only JESC 09 had been last Saturday.

The UK never won the Junior Eurovision in the three years it took part, and unlike the real Eurovision, the host country is decided in advance and is not last year's winner, supposedly in order to reduce the pressure on the participants. ITV were due to host the second contest in 2004, which went to Norway instead; ITV relegated it to ITV2 in the same year.

I endorse what you say there, sticking ANYTHING on ITV2 back in November 2004 or November 2005 was a recipe for disaster, as a lot of people still didn't have any form of digital then. If they'd put the FA Cup Final on ITV2 at the time there wouldn't have been many viewers. They should have kept it on ITV1, which everyone could get.