Eurovision Song Contest 1963

The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and took place in London, United Kingdom. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which agreed to stage the event after Template:Esccnty's {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (RTF), which had won the Template:Escyr, declined to host it due to financial shortcomings, also having hosted the competition in Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr. The contest was held at the BBC Television Centre on Saturday 23 March 1963 and was hosted by Katie Boyle for a second time.

Sixteen countries participated in the contest, the same countries that had also participated the previous two years.

The contest this year was won by Template:Esccnty with the song "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}", performed by Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann. This was the first victory for any of the Nordic countries. Four countries got nul points, with Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty failing to score any points for the first time and the Template:Esccnty for the second time, becoming the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a single point.<ref name="ESC1963">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Location

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BBC Television Centre, London - host venue of the 1963 contest.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was willing to host the contest instead of the previous year's winner Template:Esccnty's {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (RTF), as was the case in Template:Escyr. They would do so again in Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, and Template:Escyr because the winning broadcasters of the previous year declined to produce the contest. The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. It remained one of the largest broadcasting facilities in the world until the property was redeveloped in March 2013.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

Participants

Template:Further Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1963 participants All countries which participated in the Template:Escyr edition also participated in the 1963 edition.

Only one of the performing artists had previously competed representing the same country in past editions: Ronnie Carroll had represented the Template:Esccnty.

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Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	ORF	Carmela Corren	lang}}"	German, English	Template:Hlist	Erwin Halletz
Template:Esc	BRT	Jacques Raymond	lang}}"	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Francis Bay
Template:Esc	DR	Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann	lang}}"	Danish	Template:Hlist	Kai Mortensen
Template:Esc	YLE	Laila Halme	lang}}"	Finnish	Börje Sundgren	George de Godzinsky
Template:Esc	RTF	Alain Barrière	lang}}"	French	Alain Barrière	Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc	HRTemplate:Efn	Heidi Brühl	"Marcel"	German	Template:Ill	Willy Berking
Template:Esc	RAI	Emilio Pericoli	lang}}"	Italian	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	CLT	Nana Mouskouri	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Eric Robinson
Template:Esc	TMC	Françoise Hardy	lang}}"	French	Françoise Hardy	Raymond Lefèvre
Template:Esc	NTS	Annie Palmen	lang}}"	Dutch	Pieter Goemans	Eric Robinson
Template:Esc	NRK	Anita Thallaug	lang}}"	Norwegian	Template:Ill	Øivind Bergh
Template:Esc	TVE	José Guardiola	lang}}"	Spanish	Template:Hlist	Rafael Ibarbia
Template:Esc	SR	Monica Zetterlund	lang}}"	Swedish	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Esther Ofarim	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Eric Robinson
Template:Esc	BBC	Ronnie Carroll	"Say Wonderful Things"	English	Template:Hlist	Eric Robinson
Template:Esc	JRT	Vice Vukov	lang}}" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	Serbo-Croatian	Mario Nardelli	Miljenko Prohaska

Production and format

The production mode was unusual in comparison with other Eurovision Song Contests: In contrast to most previous and following editions which were filmed in concert halls or theatres, the staging of 1963 was done in television studios.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> Two studios (TC3 and TC4) were used: one for the mistress of ceremonies Katie Boyle, the audience, and the scoreboard (TC3); the other for the performers and the orchestra accompanying them (TC4). Unusually, a boom microphone (normally used for drama and comedy shows) was employedTemplate:Sndthe viewer could not see this, so it appeared as if the artists were miming to their vocals. This was not the case, but this innovation was to create a new look for the contest.<ref name=ESC1963/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The use of television studios allowed a broader variety of staging elements not seen before in the contest, and the use of close-ups so to create an atmosphere of intimacy for television viewers.<ref name=":0" />

After the Template:Escyr was the only one to be held on a Sunday, the contest was held on a Saturday again in 1963.

Contest overview

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Template:Abbr	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Say Wonderful Things"	28	4
2	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	0	13
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Marcel"	5	9
4	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	16	7
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	0	13
6	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	37	3
7	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	0	13
8	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	42	1
9	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	3	11
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	40	2
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	25	5
12	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	2	12
13	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	0	13
14	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	4	10
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	25	5
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	13	8

Spokespersons

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Template:Ill announcing the points from Finland

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1963 contest are listed below.

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Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster assembled a 20-member jury panel who awarded their five favourite songs 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 points in order. All those points would then be added up and the five songs with the most points got 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 votes in order. Errors in the Norwegian (see below) and the Monegasque votes meant their scores had to be announced twice, with an adjustment to the scores being made in each case before the final score was verified.

One controversy this year was during the voting. When it was Template:Esccnty's turn to announce their votes, the spokesman in Oslo did not use the correct procedure in that the song number, followed by the name of the country, should have been announced before awarding the points. Boyle asked Norway to repeat their results, but the Norwegian spokesman asked Boyle to return to them after all the other results were in. When Boyle went back to Norway again the votes had been altered, thus changing the outcome of the contest and giving the victory to Template:Esccnty at Template:Esccnty's expense. In fact, the Norwegian spokesman had not given the correct votes on the first occasion, because votes from the 20 jury members were still being tallied.<ref name=ESC1963/> The Swiss participating broadcaster, SRG SSR, reportedly intended to appeal and following numerous complaints, checked the transmissions of the votes made.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was confirmed a month after the contest that the Norwegian jury didn't change their votes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Monaco was also asked to repeat their voting a second time as initially Monaco gave one point to both the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. However, when Boyle went back to Monaco to receive the votes again Monaco's one vote to Luxembourg was efficiently discarded (although this did not have any effect on the positions of the countries).<ref name=ESC1963/>

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rowspan="16" Template:Vert header	United Kingdom	28		3			5		3	3	3		3	5	2		1
Netherlands	0
Germany	5					2										3
Austria	16	4						4	1			2		3	2
Norway	0
Italy	37	2	1			3		2	5	4	5		3		3	5	4
Finland	0
Denmark	42	3	5	2	3	4	2	5			3			5	5		5
Yugoslavia	3											1	2
Switzerland	40	5		4	5	1	5		4				4	1	4	4	3
France	25		4	1	2		4			5	4		1		1	2	1
Spain	2									2
Sweden	0
Belgium	4				4
Monaco	25	1	2	5	1		3			1	1	5		4			2
Luxembourg	13			3			1	1	2		2	4

5 points

Below is a summary of all 5 points received:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 5 points
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3	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
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2	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc
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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reports estimate that 50 million people would see the contest.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	ORF	ORF	Hanns Joachim Friedrichs	<ref name="Roxburgh">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	BRT	BRT	Template:Ill and Denise Maes	<ref name="DeS">Template:Cite news</ref>
	RTB	RTB	Pierre Delhasse	<ref name="DeS" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	DR	lang}}, Program 1	Template:Ill	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	YLE	lang}}	Template:Ill	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref name="HS">Template:Cite news</ref>
		lang}}	Template:Ill
		lang}}	Jan Sederholm
Template:Flagu	RTF	RTF	Pierre Tchernia	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ARD	lang}}	Hanns Joachim Friedrichs	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RAI	lang}}	Template:Ill	<ref name="Radiocorriere">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	CLT	lang}}	Pierre Tchernia	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref name="Luxemburger">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}		Pierre Tchernia	<ref name="Roxburgh" />
Template:Flagu	NTS	NTS	Willem Duys	<ref name="Limburgs">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	NRU	Hilversum 1	Coen Serré	<ref name="Limburgs" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NRK	lang}}, NRK	Øivind Johnssen	<ref name="Oppland">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVE	TVE	Template:Ill	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref name="Vanguardia">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	RNE	RNETemplate:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Vanguardia" />
Template:Flagu	SR	lang}}, SR P1	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Template:Ill	<ref name="Schweiz">Template:Cite news</ref>
		TSR	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		TSI	Renato Tagliani	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref name="SwissItalian">Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio BeromünsterTemplate:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Beromünster">Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio Sottens	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		Radio Monte Ceneri	Template:N/A	<ref name="SwissItalian" />
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC TV	David Jacobs	<ref name="Radio Times">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	JRT	lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Saša Novak	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref>Template:Unbulleted list citebundle</ref>

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	RÉ	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTP	RTP	Federico Gallo	<ref name="Roxburgh" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

External links

• Template:Official website