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Eurovision Song Contest 1996

January 01, 1970

The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 May 1996 at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) and presented by Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket, the contest was held in Norway following the country's victory at the 1995 contest with the song "Nocturne" by Secret Garden.

Eurovision Song Contest 1996
Dates
Final18 May 1996
Host
VenueOslo Spektrum
Oslo, Norway
Presenter(s)
Musical directorFrode Thingnæs
Directed byPål Veiglum
Executive supervisorChristine Marchal-Ortiz
Executive producerOdd Arvid Strømstad
Host broadcasterNorsk rikskringkasting (NRK)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/oslo-1996
Participants
Number of entries23
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries
Non-returning countries
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Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their ten favourite songs
Winning song
1995 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1997

Thirty countries submitted entries to the contest, with a non-public, audio-only qualifying round held two months before the final to reduce the number of participants from 30 to 23. The entries from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, and Russia were subsequently eliminated, which resulted in Germany being absent from the contest for the first – and as of 2024 only – time.

The winner was Ireland with the song "The Voice", written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn. This gave the nation a record-extending seventh contest win, their fourth win in five years, with Graham also recording his second win as a songwriter in three years after having written the winning song at the 1994 contest. Norway, Sweden, Croatia, and Estonia took the remaining places in the top five, with Croatia, Estonia, and Portugal, which placed sixth, achieving their best results to date. This was the final contest where the results were determined solely by jury voting, with a trial use of televoting in the following year's event leading to widespread adoption from 1998 onwards.

Location edit

 
Oslo Spektrum, Oslo – host venue of the 1996 contest

The 1996 contest took place in Oslo, Norway, following the country's victory at the 1995 contest with the song "Nocturne", performed by Secret Garden. It was the second time that Norway had hosted the contest, following the 1986 contest staged in Bergen.[1] The chosen venue was the Oslo Spektrum, an indoor arena opened in 1990 and located in the Sentrum district of the city, which has hosted music concerts, ice hockey matches, and the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert.[2][3] Around 6,000 spectators were present in the venue during the contest.[4][5][6]

Participating countries edit

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1996 – Participation summaries by country
Countries in italics failed to progress from the qualifying round

A total of thirty countries submitted entries for the 1996 contest, however per the rules of the event only twenty-three countries would be allowed to participate. Norway, by virtue of being the host country, was guaranteed a place, with all remaining countries competing in the qualifying round in order to gain a spot in the event.[7] Initially broadcasters from thirty-three countries expressed an interest in participating, however planned entries from Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine failed to materialise; these nations would eventually make their contest debuts in the 2000s.[8]

Three representatives who had performed as lead artists in previous contests featured among the performers at this event. Marianna Efstratiou represented Greece for the second time, having previously competed in the 1989 contest, while Elisabeth Andreassen made her fourth contest appearance, having competed for Sweden in 1982 as a member of the band Chips, as well as representing Norway twice, winning the contest in 1985 as a member of Bobbysocks! and performing with Jan Werner Danielsen in 1994.[9] Additionally, Georgina Abela, who had represented Malta at the 1991 contest with Paul Giordimaina, returned as a backing singer for the Maltese entrant Miriam Christine.[10]

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996[9][11][12][13]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
  Austria ORF George Nussbaumer [de] "Weil's dr guat got" German[a]
  • Mischa Krausz
  • George Nussbaumer
 Mischa Krausz
  Belgium BRTN Lisa del Bo "Liefde is een kaartspel" Dutch
Bob Porter
  Bosnia and Herzegovina RTVBiH Amila Glamočak "Za našu ljubav" Bosnian
Sinan Alimanović
  Croatia HRT Maja Blagdan "Sveta ljubav" Croatian Zrinko Tutić Alan Bjelinski
  Cyprus CyBC Constantinos "Mono gia mas" (Μόνο για μας) Greek
  • Andreas Giorgallis
  • Rodoula Papalambrianou
 Stavros Lantsias
  Estonia ETV Maarja-Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna "Kaelakee hääl" Estonian
  • Priit Pajusaar
  • Kaari Sillamaa
 Tarmo Leinatamm
  Finland YLE Jasmine "Niin kaunis on taivas" Finnish Timo Niemi Olli Ahvenlahti
  France France Télévision Dan Ar Braz and l'Héritage des Celtes "Diwanit bugale" Breton Dan Ar Braz Fiachra Trench
  Greece ERT Marianna Efstratiou "Emis forame to himona anixiatika"
(Εμείς φοράμε το χειμώνα ανοιξιάτικα) 		Greek
Mihalis Rozakis
  Iceland RÚV Anna Mjöll "Sjúbídú" Icelandic
Ólafur Gaukur Þórhallsson
  Ireland RTÉ Eimear Quinn "The Voice" English Brendan Graham Noel Kelehan
  Malta PBS Miriam Christine "In a Woman's Heart" English
  • Paul Abela
  • Alfred Sant
 Paul Abela
  Netherlands NOS Maxine and Franklin Brown "De eerste keer" Dutch
Dick Bakker
  Norway NRK Elisabeth Andreassen "I evighet" Norwegian Torhild Nigar Frode Thingnæs
  Poland TVP Kasia Kowalska "Chcę znać swój grzech" Polish
Wiesław Pieregorólka
  Portugal RTP Lúcia Moniz "O meu coração não tem cor" Portuguese
  • José Fanha
  • Pedro Osório
 Pedro Osório
  Slovakia STV Marcel Palonder "Kým nás máš" Slovak
  • Juraj Burian
  • Jozef Urban
 Juraj Burian
  Slovenia RTVSLO Regina "Dan najlepših sanj" Slovene Aleksander Kogoj Jože Privšek
  Spain TVE Antonio Carbonell "Ay, qué deseo" Spanish
Eduardo Leiva
  Sweden SVT One More Time "Den vilda" Swedish
Anders Berglund
   Switzerland SRG SSR Kathy Leander "Mon cœur l'aime" French Régis Mounir Rui dos Reis
  Turkey TRT Şebnem Paker "Beşinci Mevsim" Turkish
  United Kingdom BBC Gina G "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" English
Ernie Dunstall
Entires which failed to progress from the qualifying round[8][12]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s)
  Denmark DR Dorte Andersen [dk] and Martin Loft [dk] "Kun med dig" Danish
  Germany NDR[b] Leon "Planet of Blue" German
  Hungary MTV Gjon Delhusa "Fortuna" Hungarian Gjon Delhusa
  Israel IBA Galit Bell "Shalom Olam" (שלום עולם) Hebrew
  • Eyal Madan
  • Doron Vitenberg
  Macedonia MRT Kaliopi "Samo ti" (Само ти) Macedonian Kaliopi
  Romania TVR Monica Anghel and Sincron "Rugă pentru pacea lumii" Romanian
  • Cornel Fugaru
  • Mirela Voiculescu
  Russia RTR Andrey Kosinskiy "Ya eto ya" (Я это я) Russian
  • Nikolai Denisov
  • Andrey Kosinskiy

Production edit

 
Oslo City Hall, location of the welcome reception
 
In addition to serving as co-presenter of the 1996 contest, Morten Harket (pictured in 2013) also performed as the show's opening act.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was produced by the Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK). Odd Arvid Strømstad served as executive producer, Pål Veiglum served as director, Bjarte Ulfstein served as designer, and Frode Thingnæs served as musical director, leading the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.[7][15] A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance, with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.[13][16]

The show was presented by the Norwegian journalist and television presenter Ingvild Bryn and the Norwegian singer Morten Harket, lead vocalist of the Norwegian band a-ha.[7][17][18] The contest underwent a re-brand for this edition, as NRK set out to improve the image of the competition and broaden its audience appeal.[19] The event was referred to by the hosts and through on-screen captions as Eurosong '96, the only occasion in which this contraction was officially used to refer to the event.[4][7]

Rehearsals in the contest venue for the competing acts began on 13 May 1996. Each country had two technical rehearsals in the week approaching the contest, with countries rehearsing in the order in which they would perform. The first rehearsals took place on 13 and 14 May, with each country allowed 40 minutes total on stage, followed by 20 minutes to review recordings with producers and to consult on suggested changes, and then a 20-minute press conference. Each country's second rehearsals took place on 15 and 16 May, with 30 minutes total on stage followed by another 20 minute press conference. A full technical rehearsal with all artists took place on the afternoon of 17 May, followed by two dress rehearsals with an audience on the evening of 17 May and the following afternoon.[4] The competing delegations were invited to a welcome reception during the week in the build-up to the event, hosted by the Mayor of Oslo at Oslo City Hall on the evening of 13 May, as well as to events during the rehearsal week including a sailing trip on the Oslofjord and a trip to the Norsk Folkemuseum in Bygdøy where a special Eurovision-themed exhibition had been installed.[4][6][20]

NRK introduced visual effects to the contest for the first time.[21] Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was featured as overlays during the broadcast of the competing entries, and the voting segment was conducted via chroma key technology built by Silicon Graphics; during this segment host Ingvild Bryn was situated in the "blue room", a special area to the side of the stage with a blue-coloured background, which allowed the contest scoreboard to be rendered virtually using CGI.[17][22][21] The chroma key virtual display also included live footage of the artists in the green room backstage, as well as the video feeds of each country's spokespersons as they delivered their country's points.[7][23]

Format edit

Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented.[24][25] A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance, and all participants were required to have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest.[24][26] Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental-only backing tracks, however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers.[26][27]

New qualification system edit

In 1996, a trial qualification process replaced the relegation system used from 1993 to 1995, whereby the lowest-ranked countries in each final were eliminated from the following year's contest. Under the new procedure, an audio preselection was organised for all participating countries, apart from the host country Norway, which received an automatic right to compete in the final, to be joined by an additional 22 countries. National juries in all competing countries, including Norway, listened to the submitted entries on audio tape, with juries required to listen to all songs three times before voting. Each of the eight members on each country's jury awarded their favourite song twelve points, their second-favourite ten points, their third-favourite eight points, with subsequent points being awarded consecutively down to each juror's tenth-favourite song being awarded one point, with the points awarded by all jurors being totalled to determine each country's top ten songs which were awarded points in the same manner. Jury members who voted in the qualifying round were not allowed to sit on the jury for the final.[8][17]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) required all entries to be submitted by 20 March 1996.[8] Jury voting was held on 20 and 21 March, with the qualifying countries publicly revealed on 22 March, at the same time as the running order draw for the final was conducted.[28][29] The full results of how individual juries had voted was not intended to be revealed publicly, but the full breakdown has since become available.[5][8]

Voting procedure edit

Further information: Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest

The results of the 1996 contest were determined using the scoring system 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.[30] The points awarded by each country were determined by an assembled jury of sixteen individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, between men and women, and by age. 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.[31][32] This was the last occasion that juries alone decided the result of the contest, as five nations introduced public televoting as a trial in 1997, and almost all other countries followed suit the next year.[7][27]

Postcards edit

The "postcards" were 70-second video introductions shown on television whilst the stage is being prepared for the next contestant to perform their entry; the postcards for each country at the 1996 contest was made up of three segments. In the first segment the participating country was highlighted geographically on a map of Europe, followed by video footage of that country's competing artist or artists in their home country during their day-to-day lives, which also featured each artist packing a branded backpack with important items which they would take with them to Oslo. The second segment featured footage of nature scenes in Norway as well as Norwegian people in everyday life, often accompanied by music from Norwegian electronic group Subgud. The final segment consisted of a pre-recorded good luck message from a representative of each respective country in the language of that country.[33][34] The seniority of these figures varied between the different countries; among the contributors were then-President of Turkey Süleyman Demirel, who survived an assassination attempt on the day of the contest, and then-Prime Minister of Portugal António Guterres, who would later become the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2017.[4][35][36] The individuals who provided messages for each country are shown below, alongside the position which they held at the time of the contest and the language in which they provided their message.[33]

Contest overview edit

Qualifying round edit

The qualifying round took place on 20 and 21 March 1996, and the results were announced on 22 March.[28][29] The table below outlines the participating countries, the order in which the juries listened to the entries, the competing artists and songs, and the results of the voting. Countries were ordered alphabetically by ISO two-letter country code.[8]

The entries from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, and Russia were eliminated following the qualifying round.[5][7][8] This marked the first time that Germany was absent from the contest and remains the only occasion to date where the nation has not participated in the contest final.[7][37] Additionally Macedonia's first attempt to compete in the contest is not considered a debut entry by the EBU, with the nation eventually going on to make their official televised debut in 1998.[38]

Hungary and Finland tied on the same score for the final qualification place, however Finland qualified for the contest due to them having received the highest individual score (8 points) compared to Hungary (7 points).[8]

Results of the qualifying round of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996[8][39]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1   Austria George Nussbaumer "Weil's dr guat got" 80 6
2   Bosnia and Herzegovina Amila Glamočak "Za našu ljubav" 29 21
3   Belgium Lisa del Bo "Liefde is een kaartspel" 45 12
4    Switzerland Kathy Leander "Mon cœur l'aime" 67 8
5   Cyprus Constantinos "Mono gia mas" 42 15
6   Germany Leon "Planet of Blue" 24 24
7   Denmark Dorthe Andersen and Martin Loft "Kun med dig" 22 25
8   Estonia Maarja-Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna "Kaelakee hääl" 106 5
9   Spain Antonio Carbonell "Ay, qué deseo" 43 14
10   Finland Jasmine "Niin kaunis on taivas" 26 22
11   France Dan Ar Braz and l'Héritage des Celtes "Diwanit bugale" 55 11
12   United Kingdom Gina G "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" 153 3
13   Greece Marianna Efstratiou "Emis forame to himona anixiatika" 45 12
14   Croatia Maja Blagdan "Sveta ljubav" 30 19
15   Hungary Gjon Delhusa "Fortuna" 26 23
16   Ireland Eimear Quinn "The Voice" 198 2
17   Israel Galit Bell "Shalom Olam" 12 28
18   Iceland Anna Mjöll "Sjúbídú" 59 10
19   Macedonia Kaliopi "Samo ti" 14 26
20   Malta Miriam Christine "In a Woman's Heart" 138 4
21   Netherlands Maxine and Franklin Brown "De eerste keer" 63 9
22   Poland Kasia Kowalska "Chcę znać swój grzech" 42 15
23   Portugal Lúcia Moniz "O meu coração não tem cor" 32 18
24   Romania Monica Anghel and Sincron "Rugă pentru pacea lumii" 11 29
25   Russia Andrey Kosinskiy "Ya eto ya" 14 26
26   Sweden One More Time "Den vilda" 227 1
27   Slovenia Regina "Dan najlepših sanj" 30 19
28   Slovakia Marcel Palonder "Kým nás máš" 38 17
29   Turkey Şebnem Paker "Beşinci Mevsim" 69 7

Final edit

 
Eimear Quinn, the winning artist of the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest

The contest took place on 18 May 1996 at 21:00 (CEST) and lasted 3 hours and 7 minutes.[7][9] In addition to his role as host, Harket also performed the song "Heaven's Not for Saints" as the show's opening act.[4] The interval act, entitled "Vardebrenning" or "Beacon Burning", was created by Petter Skavlan. The act featured a film montage created by Nils Gaup which combined stev, jazz, and Norwegian folk music as part of a musical tour of Norway, followed by a dance number performed live in the Oslo Spektrum by the Oslo Danse Ensemble, composed by Egil Monn-Iversen and choreographed by Runar Borge. The film section featured performances by Torbjørg Aamlid Paus, Bukkene Bruse, Bendik Hofseth, Håvard Gimse, Helge Kjekshus, the Brazz Brothers, Mari Boine and Terje Rypdal.[33][40]

The winner was Ireland, represented by the song "The Voice", written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn.[41] This was Ireland's seventh contest win, extending their record achieved in 1994, as well as their fourth contest win in five years following their victories in the 1992, 1993 and 1994 contests.[42] Graham recorded his second contest win in three years as a songwriter, having written the winning song of the 1994 contest "Rock 'n' Roll Kids", and thus became one of five individuals to have won the contest more than once as an artist or songwriter up to that point in time, alongside Willy van Hemert, Yves Dessca, Johnny Logan and Rolf Løvland.[17][43] Croatia, Estonia and Portugal achieved their highest placings to date by finishing fourth, fifth and sixth respectively, while Finland finished in last place for the eighth time.[44][45][46][47]

During the announcement of the Spanish votes, the Spanish spokesperson Belén Fernández de Henestrosa referred to the Netherlands as "Holland", which was misheard by Ingvild Bryn as "Poland" and which resulted in the Spanish six points being incorrectly attributed to the latter country.[33] The results of the contest were amended after the event to correct this error, and the tables in this article present the corrected results as published by the EBU.[48]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996[9][49]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1   Turkey Şebnem Paker "Beşinci Mevsim" 57 12
2   United Kingdom Gina G "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" 77 8
3   Spain Antonio Carbonell "Ay, qué deseo" 17 20
4   Portugal Lúcia Moniz "O meu coração não tem cor" 92 6
5   Cyprus Constantinos "Mono gia mas" 72 9
6   Malta Miriam Christine "In a Woman's Heart" 68 10
7   Croatia Maja Blagdan "Sveta ljubav" 98 4
8   Austria George Nussbaumer "Weil's dr guat got" 68 10
9    Switzerland Kathy Leander "Mon cœur l'aime" 22 16
10   Greece Marianna Efstratiou "Emis forame to himona anixiatika" 36 14
11   Estonia Maarja-Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna "Kaelakee hääl" 94 5
12   Norway Elisabeth Andreassen "I evighet" 114 2
13   France Dan Ar Braz and l'Héritage des Celtes "Diwanit bugale" 18 19
14   Slovenia Regina "Dan najlepših sanj" 16 21
15   Netherlands Maxine and Franklin Brown "De eerste keer" 78 7
16   Belgium Lisa del Bo "Liefde is een kaartspel" 22 16
17   Ireland Eimear Quinn "The Voice" 162 1
18   Finland Jasmine "Niin kaunis on taivas" 9 23
19   Iceland Anna Mjöll "Sjúbídú" 51 13
20   Poland Kasia Kowalska "Chcę znać swój grzech" 31 15
21   Bosnia and Herzegovina Amila Glamočak "Za našu ljubav" 13 22
22   Slovakia Marcel Palonder "Kým nás máš" 19 18
23   Sweden One More Time "Den vilda" 100 3

Spokespersons edit

 
Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft, the Norwegian spokesperson

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country.[24] As had been the case since the 1994 contest, the spokespersons were connected via satellite and appeared in vision during the broadcast, with the exception of the Norwegian spokesperson, Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft, who appeared in person in the Oslo Spektrum.[17][50] Spokespersons at the 1996 contest are listed below.[33]

  1.   Turkey – Ömer Önder [tr]
  2.   United Kingdom – Colin Berry[48]
  3.   Spain – Belén Fernández de Henestrosa[48]
  4.   Portugal – Cristina Rocha
  5.   Cyprus – Marios Skordis
  6.   Malta – Ruth Amaira
  7.   Croatia – Daniela Trbović [hr]
  8.   Austria – Martina Rupp [de]
  9.    Switzerland – Yves Ménestrier
  10.   Greece – Niki Venega
  11.   Estonia – Annika Talvik[51]
  12.   Norway – Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft[17]
  13.   France – Laurent Broomhead
  14.   Slovenia – Mario Galunič [sl]
  15.   Netherlands – Marcha[52]
  16.   Belgium – An Ploegaerts
  17.   Ireland – Eileen Dunne[53]
  18.   Finland – Solveig Herlin
  19.   Iceland – Svanhildur Konráðsdóttir
  20.   Poland – Jan Chojnacki
  21.   Bosnia and Herzegovina – Segmedina Srna
  22.   Slovakia – Alena Heribanová [sk]
  23.   Sweden – Ulla Rundqvist[54]

Detailed voting results edit

Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries.[48] 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.[33] The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below.

Qualifying round edit

Detailed voting results in the qualifying round[55]
Total score
Austria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belgium
Switzerland
Cyprus
Germany
Denmark
Estonia
Spain
Finland
France
United Kingdom
Greece
Croatia
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Iceland
Macedonia
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Sweden
Slovenia
Slovakia
Turkey
Contestants
 Austria 80 6 1 6 1 2 5 2 12 6 3 10 12 5 2 7
Bosnia and Herzegovina 29 2 3 3 1 6 2 12
Belgium 45 8 4 7 4 6 2 4 6 2 2
Switzerland 67 3 3 3 7 5 7 8 5 6 3 7 4 6
Cyprus 42 4 2 12 5 5 4 4 6
Germany 24 5 5 10 3 1
Denmark 22 4 3 1 2 2 1 4 5
Estonia 106 5 5 4 8 8 8 1 6 5 1 10 10 5 5 3 12 7 3
Spain 43 2 4 4 8 8 1 4 8 4
Finland 26 6 8 5 7
France 55 6 8 3 5 6 10 6 4 4 3
United Kingdom 153 10 7 10 5 7 2 7 10 1 7 8 12 3 7 8 1 10 8 12 1 5 12
Greece 45 12 7 7 2 5 5 7
Croatia 30 1 7 2 1 3 1 1 8 6
Hungary 26 1 2 1 6 2 3 3 7 1
Ireland 198 12 12 8 7 8 3 10 2 10 8 12 10 2 10 12 6 6 10 3 7 10 10 10 10
Israel 12 3 4 5
Iceland 59 5 7 5 6 7 12 6 8 3
Macedonia 14 2 4 2 1 5
Malta 138 6 10 8 7 6 1 12 4 7 10 8 6 4 7 2 12 3 6 12 7
Netherlands 63 4 3 10 2 12 3 3 7 12 5 2
Poland 42 7 10 3 1 1 8 10 2
Portugal 32 4 6 6 5 1 4 3 2 1
Romania 11 4 1 6
Russia 14 5 4 5
Sweden 227 8 10 12 12 1 12 12 12 12 7 8 10 12 8 8 12 12 7 12 8 10 6 8 8
Slovenia 30 2 1 4 3 5 10 1 2 2
Slovakia 38 2 5 6 3 12 10
Turkey 69 8 10 10 6 4 4 4 4 7 8 1 3

12 points edit

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another in the qualifying round.[55]

Distribution of 12 points awarded at the qualifying round[55]
N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
10   Sweden   Belgium,   Denmark,   Estonia,   Finland,   Germany,   Ireland,   Macedonia,   Netherlands,   Poland,    Switzerland
4   Ireland   Austria,   Bosnia and Herzegovina,   Iceland,   United Kingdom
3   Malta   Romania,   Slovakia,   Spain
  United Kingdom   Israel,   Sweden,   Turkey
2   Austria   France,   Malta
  Netherlands   Hungary,   Portugal
1   Bosnia and Herzegovina   Slovenia
  Cyprus   Greece
  Estonia   Russia
  Greece   Cyprus
  Iceland   Norway
  Slovakia   Croatia

Final edit

Detailed voting results in the final[48][56][57]
Total score
Turkey
United Kingdom
Spain
Portugal
Cyprus
Malta
Croatia
Austria
Switzerland
Greece
Estonia
Norway
France
Slovenia
Netherlands
Belgium
Ireland
Finland
Iceland
Poland
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovakia
Sweden
Contestants
 Turkey 57 6 8 10 1 6 4 7 5 5 5
United Kingdom 77 3 12 1 6 7 3 4 2 8 12 3 4 6 6
Spain 17 2 5 4 6
Portugal 92 5 2 12 10 1 10 5 12 5 6 6 3 10 1 4
Cyprus 72 12 7 3 2 8 2 5 12 2 1 6 10 2
Malta 68 10 10 12 8 1 4 6 12 5
Croatia 98 8 4 5 10 8 7 1 1 6 7 3 5 4 6 5 2 10 5 1
Austria 68 4 5 12 2 7 12 1 8 8 6 3
Switzerland 22 3 2 4 2 4 4 3
Greece 36 7 10 1 2 3 1 1 8 3
Estonia 94 10 4 7 5 8 1 8 3 2 12 12 10 12
Norway 114 2 8 2 3 5 8 7 5 7 10 10 8 7 7 8 4 3 10
France 18 1 1 3 4 7 2
Slovenia 16 1 6 1 8
Netherlands 78 1 6 7 5 12 3 4 10 5 1 5 2 7 2 8
Belgium 22 5 12 2 1 2
Ireland 162 12 8 6 4 7 12 10 12 10 6 12 12 3 10 12 12 7 7
Finland 9 2 7
Iceland 51 3 6 6 3 8 5 6 10 3 1
Poland 31 7 4 4 7 7 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 6 3 3 1
Slovakia 19 2 8 4 5
Sweden 100 4 10 8 10 6 3 7 8 10 12 8 6 4 4

12 points edit

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another in the final. The winning country is shown in bold.[56][57]

Distribution of 12 points awarded at the final[56][57]
N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
7   Ireland   Bosnia and Herzegovina,   Estonia,   Netherlands,   Poland,   Slovenia,    Switzerland,   Turkey
3   Estonia   Finland,   Iceland,   Sweden
2   Austria   France,   Malta
  Cyprus   Greece,   United Kingdom
  Malta   Croatia,   Slovakia
  Portugal   Cyprus,   Norway
  United Kingdom   Belgium,   Portugal
1   Belgium   Spain
  Netherlands   Austria
  Sweden   Ireland

Broadcasts edit

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.[26] 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 ORF 1 Ernst Grissemann [58][59]
FM4 Stermann & Grissemann [60]
  Belgium BRTN TV1 Michel Follet and Johan Verstreken [61][62]
Radio 2 Guy De Pré [nl] and Bart Pieters [63]
RTBF RTBF1 Jean-Pierre Hautier and Sandra Kim [64][65]
  Bosnia and Herzegovina RTVBiH
  Croatia HRT HRT1 Aleksandar Kostadinov [66]
  Cyprus CyBC RIK 1 Evi Papamichail [67]
  Estonia ETV [68]
  Finland YLE TV1 Erkki Pohjanheimo, Sanna Kojo and Minna Pentti [68][69][70]
Radio Suomi Iris Mattila and Pasi Hiihtola [70]
  France France Télévision France 2 Olivier Minne [58][71]
  Greece ERT Dafni Bokota [72]
  Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið Jakob Frímann Magnússon [73]
  Ireland RTÉ RTÉ One Pat Kenny [74]
RTÉ Radio 1 Larry Gogan [74][75]
  Malta PBS TVM Charles Saliba [76]
  Netherlands NOS TV2 Willem van Beusekom [61]
Radio 2
  Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet Jostein Pedersen [77][78]
NRK P1 Stein Dag Jensen [no] and Anita Skorgan [77][79]
  Poland TVP TVP1 Dorota Osman [80][81]
  Portugal RTP RTP1, RTP Internacional [58][82]
  Slovakia STV
  Slovenia RTVSLO SLO 1 [sl] Miša Molk [83]
  Spain TVE La Primera, TVE Internacional José Luis Uribarri [84][85]
  Sweden SVT SVT2 Björn Kjellman [54][77]
SR SR P3 Claes-Johan Larsson and Lisa Syrén [54]
   Switzerland SRG SSR Schweiz 4 Sandra Studer [86]
TSR Pierre Grandjean [87]
  Turkey TRT TRT 1 [88]
  United Kingdom BBC BBC1, BBC Prime Terry Wogan [9][58][89]
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce [9][90]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
  Australia SBS SBS TV[c] [91]
  Denmark DR DR TV Jørgen de Mylius [77][92]
DR P3 Katrine Nyland Sørensen, Martin Loft and Marianne Dinesen [92]
  Germany NDR N3[d] Ulf Ansorge [de] [61][93]
  Hungary MTV MTV 2 István Vágó [94]
  Israel IBA Channel 1 [95]
  Lithuania LRT LTV [81]
  Romania TVR TVR 1 Doina Caramzulescu and Costin Grigore [96]

Notes and references edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Specifically Vorarlbergisch, a High Alemannic dialect
  2. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[14]
  3. ^ Deferred broadcast on 19 May at 20:30 AEST (10:30 UTC)[91]
  4. ^ The contest was broadcast live on the Third Program [de] of Germany's ARD, with a deferred broadcast on Das Erste at 00:35 CEST.[61][86]

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January 01, 1970
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest held on 18 May 1996 at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo Norway Organised by the European Broadcasting Union EBU and host broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting NRK and presented by Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket the contest was held in Norway following the country s victory at the 1995 contest with the song Nocturne by Secret Garden Eurovision Song Contest 1996DatesFinal18 May 1996HostVenueOslo Spektrum Oslo NorwayPresenter s Ingvild BrynMorten HarketMusical directorFrode ThingnaesDirected byPal VeiglumExecutive supervisorChristine Marchal OrtizExecutive producerOdd Arvid StromstadHost broadcasterNorsk rikskringkasting NRK Websiteeurovision wbr tv wbr event wbr oslo 1996ParticipantsNumber of entries23Debuting countriesNoneReturning countries Estonia Finland Netherlands Slovakia SwitzerlandNon returning countries Denmark Germany Hungary Israel RussiaParticipation map Finalist countries Countries eliminated in the qualifying round Countries that participated in the past but not in 1996VoteVoting systemEach country awarded 12 10 8 1 points to their ten favourite songsWinning song Ireland The Voice 1995 Eurovision Song Contest 1997 Thirty countries submitted entries to the contest with a non public audio only qualifying round held two months before the final to reduce the number of participants from 30 to 23 The entries from Denmark Germany Hungary Israel Macedonia Romania and Russia were subsequently eliminated which resulted in Germany being absent from the contest for the first and as of 2024 only time The winner was Ireland with the song The Voice written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn This gave the nation a record extending seventh contest win their fourth win in five years with Graham also recording his second win as a songwriter in three years after having written the winning song at the 1994 contest Norway Sweden Croatia and Estonia took the remaining places in the top five with Croatia Estonia and Portugal which placed sixth achieving their best results to date This was the final contest where the results were determined solely by jury voting with a trial use of televoting in the following year s event leading to widespread adoption from 1998 onwards Contents 1 Location 2 Participating countries 3 Production 4 Format 4 1 New qualification system 4 2 Voting procedure 4 3 Postcards 5 Contest overview 5 1 Qualifying round 5 2 Final 5 2 1 Spokespersons 6 Detailed voting results 6 1 Qualifying round 6 1 1 12 points 6 2 Final 6 2 1 12 points 7 Broadcasts 8 Notes and references 8 1 Notes 8 2 References 9 External linksLocation edit nbsp Oslo Spektrum Oslo host venue of the 1996 contest The 1996 contest took place in Oslo Norway following the country s victory at the 1995 contest with the song Nocturne performed by Secret Garden It was the second time that Norway had hosted the contest following the 1986 contest staged in Bergen 1 The chosen venue was the Oslo Spektrum an indoor arena opened in 1990 and located in the Sentrum district of the city which has hosted music concerts ice hockey matches and the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2 3 Around 6 000 spectators were present in the venue during the contest 4 5 6 Participating countries editFurther information List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1996 Participation summaries by countryAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaCroatiaCyprusDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandIrelandIsraelMacedoniaMaltaNetherlandsNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited KingdomCountries in italics failed to progress from the qualifying round A total of thirty countries submitted entries for the 1996 contest however per the rules of the event only twenty three countries would be allowed to participate Norway by virtue of being the host country was guaranteed a place with all remaining countries competing in the qualifying round in order to gain a spot in the event 7 Initially broadcasters from thirty three countries expressed an interest in participating however planned entries from Bulgaria Moldova and Ukraine failed to materialise these nations would eventually make their contest debuts in the 2000s 8 Three representatives who had performed as lead artists in previous contests featured among the performers at this event Marianna Efstratiou represented Greece for the second time having previously competed in the 1989 contest while Elisabeth Andreassen made her fourth contest appearance having competed for Sweden in 1982 as a member of the band Chips as well as representing Norway twice winning the contest in 1985 as a member of Bobbysocks and performing with Jan Werner Danielsen in 1994 9 Additionally Georgina Abela who had represented Malta at the 1991 contest with Paul Giordimaina returned as a backing singer for the Maltese entrant Miriam Christine 10 Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 9 11 12 13 Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter s Conductor nbsp Austria ORF George Nussbaumer de Weil s dr guat got German a Mischa KrauszGeorge Nussbaumer Mischa Krausz nbsp Belgium BRTN Lisa del Bo Liefde is een kaartspel Dutch Siirak BrogdenDaniel DitmarJohn Terra Bob Porter nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina RTVBiH Amila Glamocak Za nasu ljubav Bosnian Sinan AlimanovicAdnan BajramovicAida Frljak Sinan Alimanovic nbsp Croatia HRT Maja Blagdan Sveta ljubav Croatian Zrinko Tutic Alan Bjelinski nbsp Cyprus CyBC Constantinos Mono gia mas Mono gia mas Greek Andreas GiorgallisRodoula Papalambrianou Stavros Lantsias nbsp Estonia ETV Maarja Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna Kaelakee haal Estonian Priit PajusaarKaari Sillamaa Tarmo Leinatamm nbsp Finland YLE Jasmine Niin kaunis on taivas Finnish Timo Niemi Olli Ahvenlahti nbsp France France Television Dan Ar Braz and l Heritage des Celtes Diwanit bugale Breton Dan Ar Braz Fiachra Trench nbsp Greece ERT Marianna Efstratiou Emis forame to himona anixiatika Emeis forame to xeimwna anoi3iatika Greek Kostas BigalisIro Trigoni Mihalis Rozakis nbsp Iceland RUV Anna Mjoll Sjubidu Icelandic Anna Mjoll olafsdottirolafur Gaukur THorhallsson olafur Gaukur THorhallsson nbsp Ireland RTE Eimear Quinn The Voice English Brendan Graham Noel Kelehan nbsp Malta PBS Miriam Christine In a Woman s Heart English Paul AbelaAlfred Sant Paul Abela nbsp Netherlands NOS Maxine and Franklin Brown De eerste keer Dutch Peter van AstenPiet Souer Dick Bakker nbsp Norway NRK Elisabeth Andreassen I evighet Norwegian Torhild Nigar Frode Thingnaes nbsp Poland TVP Kasia Kowalska Chce znac swoj grzech Polish Robert AmirianKasia Kowalska Wieslaw Pieregorolka nbsp Portugal RTP Lucia Moniz O meu coracao nao tem cor Portuguese Jose FanhaPedro Osorio Pedro Osorio nbsp Slovakia STV Marcel Palonder Kym nas mas Slovak Juraj BurianJozef Urban Juraj Burian nbsp Slovenia RTVSLO Regina Dan najlepsih sanj Slovene Aleksander Kogoj Joze Privsek nbsp Spain TVE Antonio Carbonell Ay que deseo Spanish Antonio CarmonaJose Miguel CarmonaJuan Carmona Eduardo Leiva nbsp Sweden SVT One More Time Den vilda Swedish Nanne GronvallPeter Gronvall Anders Berglund nbsp Switzerland SRG SSR Kathy Leander Mon cœur l aime French Regis Mounir Rui dos Reis nbsp Turkey TRT Sebnem Paker Besinci Mevsim Turkish Levent CokerSelma Cuhaci Selma CuhaciLevent Coker nbsp United Kingdom BBC Gina G Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit English Steve RodwaySimon Tauber Ernie Dunstall Entires which failed to progress from the qualifying round 8 12 Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter s nbsp Denmark DR Dorte Andersen dk and Martin Loft dk Kun med dig Danish Keld HeickJascha Richter nbsp Germany NDR b Leon Planet of Blue German Hanne HallerAnna Rubach nbsp Hungary MTV Gjon Delhusa Fortuna Hungarian Gjon Delhusa nbsp Israel IBA Galit Bell Shalom Olam שלום עולם Hebrew Eyal MadanDoron Vitenberg nbsp Macedonia MRT Kaliopi Samo ti Samo ti Macedonian Kaliopi nbsp Romania TVR Monica Anghel and Sincron Rugă pentru pacea lumii Romanian Cornel FugaruMirela Voiculescu nbsp Russia RTR Andrey Kosinskiy Ya eto ya Ya eto ya Russian Nikolai DenisovAndrey KosinskiyProduction edit nbsp Oslo City Hall location of the welcome reception nbsp In addition to serving as co presenter of the 1996 contest Morten Harket pictured in 2013 also performed as the show s opening act The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was produced by the Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting NRK Odd Arvid Stromstad served as executive producer Pal Veiglum served as director Bjarte Ulfstein served as designer and Frode Thingnaes served as musical director leading the Norwegian Radio Orchestra 7 15 A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor 13 16 The show was presented by the Norwegian journalist and television presenter Ingvild Bryn and the Norwegian singer Morten Harket lead vocalist of the Norwegian band a ha 7 17 18 The contest underwent a re brand for this edition as NRK set out to improve the image of the competition and broaden its audience appeal 19 The event was referred to by the hosts and through on screen captions as Eurosong 96 the only occasion in which this contraction was officially used to refer to the event 4 7 Rehearsals in the contest venue for the competing acts began on 13 May 1996 Each country had two technical rehearsals in the week approaching the contest with countries rehearsing in the order in which they would perform The first rehearsals took place on 13 and 14 May with each country allowed 40 minutes total on stage followed by 20 minutes to review recordings with producers and to consult on suggested changes and then a 20 minute press conference Each country s second rehearsals took place on 15 and 16 May with 30 minutes total on stage followed by another 20 minute press conference A full technical rehearsal with all artists took place on the afternoon of 17 May followed by two dress rehearsals with an audience on the evening of 17 May and the following afternoon 4 The competing delegations were invited to a welcome reception during the week in the build up to the event hosted by the Mayor of Oslo at Oslo City Hall on the evening of 13 May as well as to events during the rehearsal week including a sailing trip on the Oslofjord and a trip to the Norsk Folkemuseum in Bygdoy where a special Eurovision themed exhibition had been installed 4 6 20 NRK introduced visual effects to the contest for the first time 21 Computer generated imagery CGI was featured as overlays during the broadcast of the competing entries and the voting segment was conducted via chroma key technology built by Silicon Graphics during this segment host Ingvild Bryn was situated in the blue room a special area to the side of the stage with a blue coloured background which allowed the contest scoreboard to be rendered virtually using CGI 17 22 21 The chroma key virtual display also included live footage of the artists in the green room backstage as well as the video feeds of each country s spokespersons as they delivered their country s points 7 23 Format editEach participating broadcaster submitted one song which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language or one of the languages of the country which it represented 24 25 A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country s performance and all participants were required to have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest 24 26 Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental only backing tracks however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers 26 27 New qualification system edit In 1996 a trial qualification process replaced the relegation system used from 1993 to 1995 whereby the lowest ranked countries in each final were eliminated from the following year s contest Under the new procedure an audio preselection was organised for all participating countries apart from the host country Norway which received an automatic right to compete in the final to be joined by an additional 22 countries National juries in all competing countries including Norway listened to the submitted entries on audio tape with juries required to listen to all songs three times before voting Each of the eight members on each country s jury awarded their favourite song twelve points their second favourite ten points their third favourite eight points with subsequent points being awarded consecutively down to each juror s tenth favourite song being awarded one point with the points awarded by all jurors being totalled to determine each country s top ten songs which were awarded points in the same manner Jury members who voted in the qualifying round were not allowed to sit on the jury for the final 8 17 The European Broadcasting Union EBU required all entries to be submitted by 20 March 1996 8 Jury voting was held on 20 and 21 March with the qualifying countries publicly revealed on 22 March at the same time as the running order draw for the final was conducted 28 29 The full results of how individual juries had voted was not intended to be revealed publicly but the full breakdown has since become available 5 8 Voting procedure edit Further information Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest The results of the 1996 contest were determined using the scoring system 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 30 The points awarded by each country were determined by an assembled jury of sixteen individuals which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals between men and women and by age 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 31 32 This was the last occasion that juries alone decided the result of the contest as five nations introduced public televoting as a trial in 1997 and almost all other countries followed suit the next year 7 27 Postcards edit The postcards were 70 second video introductions shown on television whilst the stage is being prepared for the next contestant to perform their entry the postcards for each country at the 1996 contest was made up of three segments In the first segment the participating country was highlighted geographically on a map of Europe followed by video footage of that country s competing artist or artists in their home country during their day to day lives which also featured each artist packing a branded backpack with important items which they would take with them to Oslo The second segment featured footage of nature scenes in Norway as well as Norwegian people in everyday life often accompanied by music from Norwegian electronic group Subgud The final segment consisted of a pre recorded good luck message from a representative of each respective country in the language of that country 33 34 The seniority of these figures varied between the different countries among the contributors were then President of Turkey Suleyman Demirel who survived an assassination attempt on the day of the contest and then Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Guterres who would later become the Secretary General of the United Nations in 2017 4 35 36 The individuals who provided messages for each country are shown below alongside the position which they held at the time of the contest and the language in which they provided their message 33 nbsp Turkey Suleyman Demirel President of Turkey Turkish nbsp United Kingdom Virginia Bottomley Secretary of State for National Heritage English nbsp Spain Alberto Escudero Claramunt Spanish Ambassador to Norway Spanish nbsp Portugal Antonio Guterres Prime Minister of Portugal Portuguese nbsp Cyprus Glafcos Clerides President of Cyprus Greek nbsp Malta Edoardo Fenech Adami Prime Minister of Malta Maltese nbsp Croatia Zlatko Matesa Prime Minister of Croatia Croatian nbsp Austria Elisabeth Gehrer Federal Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs German nbsp Switzerland Michel Coquoz Swiss charge d affaires in Norway French nbsp Greece Caterina Dimaki Greek charge d affaires in Norway Greek nbsp Estonia Tiit Vahi Prime Minister of Estonia Estonian nbsp Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway Norwegian nbsp France Philippe Douste Blazy Minister of Culture French nbsp Slovenia Milan Kucan President of Slovenia Slovene nbsp Netherlands Aad Nuis State Secretary of Education Culture and Science Dutch nbsp Belgium Luc Van den Brande Minister President of Flanders Dutch nbsp Ireland John Bruton Taoiseach English nbsp Finland Riitta Uosukainen Speaker of the Parliament of Finland Finnish nbsp Iceland David Oddsson Prime Minister of Iceland Icelandic nbsp Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski President of Poland Polish nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian nbsp Slovakia Vladimir Meciar Prime Minister of Slovakia Slovak nbsp Sweden Goran Persson Prime Minister of Sweden Swedish Contest overview editQualifying round edit The qualifying round took place on 20 and 21 March 1996 and the results were announced on 22 March 28 29 The table below outlines the participating countries the order in which the juries listened to the entries the competing artists and songs and the results of the voting Countries were ordered alphabetically by ISO two letter country code 8 The entries from Denmark Germany Hungary Israel Macedonia Romania and Russia were eliminated following the qualifying round 5 7 8 This marked the first time that Germany was absent from the contest and remains the only occasion to date where the nation has not participated in the contest final 7 37 Additionally Macedonia s first attempt to compete in the contest is not considered a debut entry by the EBU with the nation eventually going on to make their official televised debut in 1998 38 Hungary and Finland tied on the same score for the final qualification place however Finland qualified for the contest due to them having received the highest individual score 8 points compared to Hungary 7 points 8 Results of the qualifying round of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 8 39 R O Country Artist Song Points Place 1 nbsp Austria George Nussbaumer Weil s dr guat got 80 6 2 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Amila Glamocak Za nasu ljubav 29 21 3 nbsp Belgium Lisa del Bo Liefde is een kaartspel 45 12 4 nbsp Switzerland Kathy Leander Mon cœur l aime 67 8 5 nbsp Cyprus Constantinos Mono gia mas 42 15 6 nbsp Germany Leon Planet of Blue 24 24 7 nbsp Denmark Dorthe Andersen and Martin Loft Kun med dig 22 25 8 nbsp Estonia Maarja Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna Kaelakee haal 106 5 9 nbsp Spain Antonio Carbonell Ay que deseo 43 14 10 nbsp Finland Jasmine Niin kaunis on taivas 26 22 11 nbsp France Dan Ar Braz and l Heritage des Celtes Diwanit bugale 55 11 12 nbsp United Kingdom Gina G Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit 153 3 13 nbsp Greece Marianna Efstratiou Emis forame to himona anixiatika 45 12 14 nbsp Croatia Maja Blagdan Sveta ljubav 30 19 15 nbsp Hungary Gjon Delhusa Fortuna 26 23 16 nbsp Ireland Eimear Quinn The Voice 198 2 17 nbsp Israel Galit Bell Shalom Olam 12 28 18 nbsp Iceland Anna Mjoll Sjubidu 59 10 19 nbsp Macedonia Kaliopi Samo ti 14 26 20 nbsp Malta Miriam Christine In a Woman s Heart 138 4 21 nbsp Netherlands Maxine and Franklin Brown De eerste keer 63 9 22 nbsp Poland Kasia Kowalska Chce znac swoj grzech 42 15 23 nbsp Portugal Lucia Moniz O meu coracao nao tem cor 32 18 24 nbsp Romania Monica Anghel and Sincron Rugă pentru pacea lumii 11 29 25 nbsp Russia Andrey Kosinskiy Ya eto ya 14 26 26 nbsp Sweden One More Time Den vilda 227 1 27 nbsp Slovenia Regina Dan najlepsih sanj 30 19 28 nbsp Slovakia Marcel Palonder Kym nas mas 38 17 29 nbsp Turkey Sebnem Paker Besinci Mevsim 69 7 Final edit nbsp Eimear Quinn the winning artist of the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest The contest took place on 18 May 1996 at 21 00 CEST and lasted 3 hours and 7 minutes 7 9 In addition to his role as host Harket also performed the song Heaven s Not for Saints as the show s opening act 4 The interval act entitled Vardebrenning or Beacon Burning was created by Petter Skavlan The act featured a film montage created by Nils Gaup which combined stev jazz and Norwegian folk music as part of a musical tour of Norway followed by a dance number performed live in the Oslo Spektrum by the Oslo Danse Ensemble composed by Egil Monn Iversen and choreographed by Runar Borge The film section featured performances by Torbjorg Aamlid Paus Bukkene Bruse Bendik Hofseth Havard Gimse Helge Kjekshus the Brazz Brothers Mari Boine and Terje Rypdal 33 40 The winner was Ireland represented by the song The Voice written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn 41 This was Ireland s seventh contest win extending their record achieved in 1994 as well as their fourth contest win in five years following their victories in the 1992 1993 and 1994 contests 42 Graham recorded his second contest win in three years as a songwriter having written the winning song of the 1994 contest Rock n Roll Kids and thus became one of five individuals to have won the contest more than once as an artist or songwriter up to that point in time alongside Willy van Hemert Yves Dessca Johnny Logan and Rolf Lovland 17 43 Croatia Estonia and Portugal achieved their highest placings to date by finishing fourth fifth and sixth respectively while Finland finished in last place for the eighth time 44 45 46 47 During the announcement of the Spanish votes the Spanish spokesperson Belen Fernandez de Henestrosa referred to the Netherlands as Holland which was misheard by Ingvild Bryn as Poland and which resulted in the Spanish six points being incorrectly attributed to the latter country 33 The results of the contest were amended after the event to correct this error and the tables in this article present the corrected results as published by the EBU 48 Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 9 49 R O Country Artist Song Points Place 1 nbsp Turkey Sebnem Paker Besinci Mevsim 57 12 2 nbsp United Kingdom Gina G Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit 77 8 3 nbsp Spain Antonio Carbonell Ay que deseo 17 20 4 nbsp Portugal Lucia Moniz O meu coracao nao tem cor 92 6 5 nbsp Cyprus Constantinos Mono gia mas 72 9 6 nbsp Malta Miriam Christine In a Woman s Heart 68 10 7 nbsp Croatia Maja Blagdan Sveta ljubav 98 4 8 nbsp Austria George Nussbaumer Weil s dr guat got 68 10 9 nbsp Switzerland Kathy Leander Mon cœur l aime 22 16 10 nbsp Greece Marianna Efstratiou Emis forame to himona anixiatika 36 14 11 nbsp Estonia Maarja Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna Kaelakee haal 94 5 12 nbsp Norway Elisabeth Andreassen I evighet 114 2 13 nbsp France Dan Ar Braz and l Heritage des Celtes Diwanit bugale 18 19 14 nbsp Slovenia Regina Dan najlepsih sanj 16 21 15 nbsp Netherlands Maxine and Franklin Brown De eerste keer 78 7 16 nbsp Belgium Lisa del Bo Liefde is een kaartspel 22 16 17 nbsp Ireland Eimear Quinn The Voice 162 1 18 nbsp Finland Jasmine Niin kaunis on taivas 9 23 19 nbsp Iceland Anna Mjoll Sjubidu 51 13 20 nbsp Poland Kasia Kowalska Chce znac swoj grzech 31 15 21 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Amila Glamocak Za nasu ljubav 13 22 22 nbsp Slovakia Marcel Palonder Kym nas mas 19 18 23 nbsp Sweden One More Time Den vilda 100 3 Spokespersons edit nbsp Ragnhild Saelthun Fjortoft the Norwegian spokesperson Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing in English or French the votes for their respective country 24 As had been the case since the 1994 contest the spokespersons were connected via satellite and appeared in vision during the broadcast with the exception of the Norwegian spokesperson Ragnhild Saelthun Fjortoft who appeared in person in the Oslo Spektrum 17 50 Spokespersons at the 1996 contest are listed below 33 nbsp Turkey Omer Onder tr nbsp United Kingdom Colin Berry 48 nbsp Spain Belen Fernandez de Henestrosa 48 nbsp Portugal Cristina Rocha nbsp Cyprus Marios Skordis nbsp Malta Ruth Amaira nbsp Croatia Daniela Trbovic hr nbsp Austria Martina Rupp de nbsp Switzerland Yves Menestrier nbsp Greece Niki Venega nbsp Estonia Annika Talvik 51 nbsp Norway Ragnhild Saelthun Fjortoft 17 nbsp France Laurent Broomhead nbsp Slovenia Mario Galunic sl nbsp Netherlands Marcha 52 nbsp Belgium An Ploegaerts nbsp Ireland Eileen Dunne 53 nbsp Finland Solveig Herlin nbsp Iceland Svanhildur Konradsdottir nbsp Poland Jan Chojnacki nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Segmedina Srna nbsp Slovakia Alena Heribanova sk nbsp Sweden Ulla Rundqvist 54 Detailed voting results editJury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries 48 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 33 The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below Qualifying round edit Detailed voting results in the qualifying round 55 Total score Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Belgium Switzerland Cyprus Germany Denmark Estonia Spain Finland France United Kingdom Greece Croatia Hungary Ireland Israel Iceland Macedonia Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Sweden Slovenia Slovakia Turkey Contestants Austria 80 6 1 6 1 2 5 2 12 6 3 10 12 5 2 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 29 2 3 3 1 6 2 12 Belgium 45 8 4 7 4 6 2 4 6 2 2 Switzerland 67 3 3 3 7 5 7 8 5 6 3 7 4 6 Cyprus 42 4 2 12 5 5 4 4 6 Germany 24 5 5 10 3 1 Denmark 22 4 3 1 2 2 1 4 5 Estonia 106 5 5 4 8 8 8 1 6 5 1 10 10 5 5 3 12 7 3 Spain 43 2 4 4 8 8 1 4 8 4 Finland 26 6 8 5 7 France 55 6 8 3 5 6 10 6 4 4 3 United Kingdom 153 10 7 10 5 7 2 7 10 1 7 8 12 3 7 8 1 10 8 12 1 5 12 Greece 45 12 7 7 2 5 5 7 Croatia 30 1 7 2 1 3 1 1 8 6 Hungary 26 1 2 1 6 2 3 3 7 1 Ireland 198 12 12 8 7 8 3 10 2 10 8 12 10 2 10 12 6 6 10 3 7 10 10 10 10 Israel 12 3 4 5 Iceland 59 5 7 5 6 7 12 6 8 3 Macedonia 14 2 4 2 1 5 Malta 138 6 10 8 7 6 1 12 4 7 10 8 6 4 7 2 12 3 6 12 7 Netherlands 63 4 3 10 2 12 3 3 7 12 5 2 Poland 42 7 10 3 1 1 8 10 2 Portugal 32 4 6 6 5 1 4 3 2 1 Romania 11 4 1 6 Russia 14 5 4 5 Sweden 227 8 10 12 12 1 12 12 12 12 7 8 10 12 8 8 12 12 7 12 8 10 6 8 8 Slovenia 30 2 1 4 3 5 10 1 2 2 Slovakia 38 2 5 6 3 12 10 Turkey 69 8 10 10 6 4 4 4 4 7 8 1 3 12 points edit The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another in the qualifying round 55 Distribution of 12 points awarded at the qualifying round 55 N Contestant Nation s giving 12 points 10 nbsp Sweden nbsp Belgium nbsp Denmark nbsp Estonia nbsp Finland nbsp Germany nbsp Ireland nbsp Macedonia nbsp Netherlands nbsp Poland nbsp Switzerland 4 nbsp Ireland nbsp Austria nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina nbsp Iceland nbsp United Kingdom 3 nbsp Malta nbsp Romania nbsp Slovakia nbsp Spain nbsp United Kingdom nbsp Israel nbsp Sweden nbsp Turkey 2 nbsp Austria nbsp France nbsp Malta nbsp Netherlands nbsp Hungary nbsp Portugal 1 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina nbsp Slovenia nbsp Cyprus nbsp Greece nbsp Estonia nbsp Russia nbsp Greece nbsp Cyprus nbsp Iceland nbsp Norway nbsp Slovakia nbsp Croatia Final edit Detailed voting results in the final 48 56 57 Total score Turkey United Kingdom Spain Portugal Cyprus Malta Croatia Austria Switzerland Greece Estonia Norway France Slovenia Netherlands Belgium Ireland Finland Iceland Poland Bosnia and Herzegovina Slovakia Sweden Contestants Turkey 57 6 8 10 1 6 4 7 5 5 5 United Kingdom 77 3 12 1 6 7 3 4 2 8 12 3 4 6 6 Spain 17 2 5 4 6 Portugal 92 5 2 12 10 1 10 5 12 5 6 6 3 10 1 4 Cyprus 72 12 7 3 2 8 2 5 12 2 1 6 10 2 Malta 68 10 10 12 8 1 4 6 12 5 Croatia 98 8 4 5 10 8 7 1 1 6 7 3 5 4 6 5 2 10 5 1 Austria 68 4 5 12 2 7 12 1 8 8 6 3 Switzerland 22 3 2 4 2 4 4 3 Greece 36 7 10 1 2 3 1 1 8 3 Estonia 94 10 4 7 5 8 1 8 3 2 12 12 10 12 Norway 114 2 8 2 3 5 8 7 5 7 10 10 8 7 7 8 4 3 10 France 18 1 1 3 4 7 2 Slovenia 16 1 6 1 8 Netherlands 78 1 6 7 5 12 3 4 10 5 1 5 2 7 2 8 Belgium 22 5 12 2 1 2 Ireland 162 12 8 6 4 7 12 10 12 10 6 12 12 3 10 12 12 7 7 Finland 9 2 7 Iceland 51 3 6 6 3 8 5 6 10 3 1 Poland 31 7 4 4 7 7 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 6 3 3 1 Slovakia 19 2 8 4 5 Sweden 100 4 10 8 10 6 3 7 8 10 12 8 6 4 4 12 points edit The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another in the final The winning country is shown in bold 56 57 Distribution of 12 points awarded at the final 56 57 N Contestant Nation s giving 12 points 7 nbsp Ireland nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina nbsp Estonia nbsp Netherlands nbsp Poland nbsp Slovenia nbsp Switzerland nbsp Turkey 3 nbsp Estonia nbsp Finland nbsp Iceland nbsp Sweden 2 nbsp Austria nbsp France nbsp Malta nbsp Cyprus nbsp Greece nbsp United Kingdom nbsp Malta nbsp Croatia nbsp Slovakia nbsp Portugal nbsp Cyprus nbsp Norway nbsp United Kingdom nbsp Belgium nbsp Portugal 1 nbsp Belgium nbsp Spain nbsp Netherlands nbsp Austria nbsp Sweden nbsp IrelandBroadcasts editEach 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 26 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 nbsp Austria ORF ORF 1 Ernst Grissemann 58 59 FM4 Stermann amp Grissemann 60 nbsp Belgium BRTN TV1 Michel Follet and Johan Verstreken 61 62 Radio 2 Guy De Pre nl and Bart Pieters 63 RTBF RTBF1 Jean Pierre Hautier and Sandra Kim 64 65 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina RTVBiH nbsp Croatia HRT HRT1 Aleksandar Kostadinov 66 nbsp Cyprus CyBC RIK 1 Evi Papamichail 67 nbsp Estonia ETV 68 nbsp Finland YLE TV1 Erkki Pohjanheimo Sanna Kojo and Minna Pentti 68 69 70 Radio Suomi Iris Mattila and Pasi Hiihtola 70 nbsp France France Television France 2 Olivier Minne 58 71 nbsp Greece ERT Dafni Bokota 72 nbsp Iceland RUV Sjonvarpid Jakob Frimann Magnusson 73 nbsp Ireland RTE RTE One Pat Kenny 74 RTE Radio 1 Larry Gogan 74 75 nbsp Malta PBS TVM Charles Saliba 76 nbsp Netherlands NOS TV2 Willem van Beusekom 61 Radio 2 nbsp Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet Jostein Pedersen 77 78 NRK P1 Stein Dag Jensen no and Anita Skorgan 77 79 nbsp Poland TVP TVP1 Dorota Osman 80 81 nbsp Portugal RTP RTP1 RTP Internacional 58 82 nbsp Slovakia STV nbsp Slovenia RTVSLO SLO 1 sl Misa Molk 83 nbsp Spain TVE La Primera TVE Internacional Jose Luis Uribarri 84 85 nbsp Sweden SVT SVT2 Bjorn Kjellman 54 77 SR SR P3 Claes Johan Larsson and Lisa Syren 54 nbsp Switzerland SRG SSR Schweiz 4 Sandra Studer 86 TSR Pierre Grandjean 87 nbsp Turkey TRT TRT 1 88 nbsp United Kingdom BBC BBC1 BBC Prime Terry Wogan 9 58 89 BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce 9 90 Broadcasters and commentators in non participating countries Country Broadcaster Channel s Commentator s Ref s 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