Eurovision Song Contest 1980

International song competition

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Eurovision Song Contest 1980

Dates
Final| 19 April 1980
Host
Venue| Nederlands Congresgebouw
The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s)|

* Marlous Fluitsma
* Hans van Willigenburg (green room)

Musical director| Rogier van Otterloo
Directed by| Theo Ordeman
Executive supervisor| Frank Naef
Executive producer| Fred Oster
Host broadcaster| Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Website| eurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980
Participants
Number of entries| 19
Debuting countries|  Morocco
Returning countries|  Turkey
Non-returning countries|

* Israel
* Monaco

Participation map

* Competing countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1980

Vote
Voting system| Each 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.[1][2]

## Location

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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 memorial day, 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 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.[3]

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

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Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1980 - Participation summaries by country

* Austria
* Belgium
* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Ireland
* Italy
* Luxembourg
* Morocco
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Portugal
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* United Kingdom

Katja Ebstein Maggie MacNeal

After Israel announced its absence, Morocco entered into the contest instead for its only ever participation. Monaco also withdrew from the contest, and would not return until 2004.

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1980[4][5][6][7] Country  | Broadcaster  | Artist  | Song  | Language  | Songwriter(s)  | Conductor

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Austria | ORF | Blue Danube | "Du bist Musik"  | German | Klaus-Peter Sattler  | Richard Oesterreicher
Belgium | RTBF | Telex | "Euro-Vision"  | French |

* Dan Lacksman
* Michel Moers
* Marc Moulin

| No conductor
Denmark | DR | Bamses Venner | "Tænker altid på dig"  | Danish |

* Bjarne Gren Jensen
* Flemming Jørgensen

| Allan Botschinsky
Finland | YLE | Vesa-Matti Loiri | "Huilumies"  | Finnish |

* Aarno Raninen
* Vexi Salmi

| Ossi Runne
France | TF1 | Profil | "Hé, hé m'sieurs dames"  | French  |

* Richard de Bordeaux
* Richard Joffo
* Sylvano Santorio

| Sylvano Santorio
Germany | BR[a] | Katja Ebstein | "Theater"  | German  |

* Bernd Meinunger
* Ralph Siegel

| 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  |

* Jean-Paul Cara
* Pierre Delanoë
* Bernd Meinunger
* Ralph Siegel

| Norbert Daum
Morocco | RTM | Samira Bensaïd | "Bitakat Hob" (بطاقة حب) | Arabic |

* Abdel Ati Amenna
* Malou Rouanne

| Jean Claudric
Netherlands | NOS | Maggie MacNeal | "Amsterdam"  | Dutch |

* Alex Alberts
* Frans Smit
* Sjoukje Smit
* Robert Verwey

| Rogier van Otterloo
Norway | NRK | Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta | "Sámiid ædnan"  | Norwegian |

* Sverre Kjelsberg
* Ragnar Olsen

| 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  |

* Véronique Müller
* Peter Reber

| Peter Reber
Turkey | TRT | Ajda Pekkan | "Pet'r Oil"  | Turkish |

* Attila Özdemiroğlu
* Şanar Yurdatapan

| Attila Özdemiroğlu
United Kingdom | BBC | Prima Donna | "Love Enough for Two"  | English  |

* Stephanie De Sykes
* Stuart Slater

| John Coleman

### Returning artists

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Artist  | Country  | Previous year(s)

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Paola del Medico |  Switzerland | 1969
Katja Ebstein |  Germany | 1970, 1971
Maggie MacNeal |  Netherlands | 1974 (part of Mouth and MacNeal)

## Format

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The venue that had hosted the 1976 contest, the Congresgebouw, was again chosen to stage the contest. Because of the limited budget and time available, NOS decided to recycle several elements of the 1976 production such as several opening video sequences and many pieces and elements that were being used in other broadcaster shows since then. 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 staging the show.

### Song presenters

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Each of the 19 contestants was presented by a presenter from that country.[5] Each of the songs was introduced in the same language as the competing country's song, with the exception of the Irish introduction, which was made in the Irish language, whereas the song was performed in English. The UK presenter was incorrectly identified in the onscreen caption as 'Noel Edmunds' and the Finnish presenter as 'Heikki Haarma'.

* Austria - Chris Lohner [de]
* Turkey - Şebnem Savaşçı
* Greece - Kelly Sakakou
* Luxembourg - Michèle Etzel [fr]
* Morocco - Mohammed Bouzidi
* Italy - Beatrice Cori
* Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius
* Sweden - Ulf Elfving
* Switzerland - Lyliam Stambac
* Finland - Heikki Harma
* Norway - Åse Kleveland
* Germany - Carolin Reiber
* United Kingdom - Noel Edmonds
* Portugal - Eládio Clímaco
* Netherlands - Marlous Fluitsma
* France - Évelyne Dhéliat
* Ireland - Thelma Mansfield
* Spain - Mari Cruz Soriano
* Belgium - Arlette Vincent [fr]

## Contest overview

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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[9] R/O | Country  | Artist  | Song  | Points  | Place

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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

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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[10]
* Sweden - Arne Weise[11]
* United Kingdom - Ray Moore[5]

## Detailed voting results

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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 each of the nineteen jury spokespersons, although the phones were simply props and were not connected.

Detailed voting results[12][13] |

Total score

Austria

Turkey

Greece

Luxembourg

Morocco

Italy

Denmark

Sweden

Switzerland

Finland

Norway

Germany

United Kingdom

Portugal

Netherlands

France

Ireland

Spain

Belgium

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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

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

N.  | Contestant  | Nation(s) giving 12 points

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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

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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.[14] 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)

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Austria  | ORF | FS2 | Ernst Grissemann | [15][16]
Belgium  | RTBF | RTBF1 |  | [17]
BRT | TV1 |
Denmark  | DR | DR TV | Jørgen de Mylius | [18]
Finland  | YLE | TV1, Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi] | Heikki Harma | [19][20]
France  | TF1 | Patrick Sabatier | [21][22]
Germany  | ARD | Deutsches Fernsehen | Ado Schlier [de] | [23][24]
Greece  | ERT | ERT |  | [25]
Ireland  | RTÉ | RTÉ 1 | Larry Gogan | [26]
RTÉ Radio 1 |  | [27]
Italy  | RAI | Rete Due[b] | Michele Gammino | [28]
Luxembourg  | CLT | RTL Télé-Luxembourg | Jacques Navadic | [21]
Netherlands  | NOS | Nederland 2 | Pim Jacobs | [29][30]
Hilversum 1 | Willem van Beusekom
Norway  | NRK | NRK Fjernsynet | Knut Aunbu | [31]
NRK | Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal  | RTP | RTP1 |  | [32]
RDP | RDP Programa 1 |  | [33]
Spain  | TVE | TVE 1 | Miguel de los Santos [es] | [34][35]
Sweden  | SVT | TV1 | Ulf Elfving | [11][31]
RR [sv] | SR P3 | Kent Finell
Switzerland  | SRG SSR | TV DRS | Theodor Haller [de] | [15][36]
TSR | Georges Hardy [fr]
TSI[c] |  | [37]
Turkey  | TRT | TRT Televizyon |  | [38]
United Kingdom  | BBC | BBC1 | Terry Wogan | [39]
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 | Steve Jones | [40][41]
BFBS | BFBS Radio | Andrew Pastouna  | [5]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries  Country  | Broadcaster  | Channel(s)  | Commentator(s)  | Ref(s)

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Cyprus  | CyBC | RIK |  | [42]
Iceland  | RÚV | Sjónvarpið[d] | Björn Baldursson  | [43]
Israel  | IBA | Israeli Television[e] |  | [44]
Reshet Bet [he], Reshet Gimel [he] |  | [45]
Netherlands Antilles  | TeleAruba[f] |  | [46]
Romania  | TVR | Programul 1[g] |  | [47]

## Notes

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1. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[8]
2. ^ Deferred broadcast at 22:00 CEST (20:00 UTC)[28]
3. ^ Broadcast through a second audio programme on TSR[15]
4. ^ Delayed broadcast on 26 April 1980 at 21:30 (WET)[43]
5. ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 April 1980 at 21:30 (IST)[44]
6. ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 July 1980 at 16:00 (ADT)[46]
7. ^ Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 4 May 1980 at 14:40 (EET)[47]

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