Eurovision Song Contest 1980

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Eurovision Song Contest 1980

Date and venue
Final|

* 19 April 1980

Venue| Nederlands Congresgebouw
The Hague, Netherlands
Organisation
Organiser| European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
EBU scrutineer| Frank Naef
Production
Host broadcaster| Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Director| Theo Ordeman
Executive producer| Fred Oster
Musical director| Rogier van Otterloo
Presenter| Marlous Fluitsma
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

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Event page at eurovision.tv

The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 19 April 1980 at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague, Netherlands, and presented by Marlous Fluitsma. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), who staged the event after the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which had won the 1979 contest for Israel, declined hosting responsibilities as it had staged the competition in 1979. Although Fluitsma was the main presenter, each song was introduced by a presenter appointed by each participating broadcaster, that in some cases was the same person providing the commentary.

Broadcasters from nineteen countries took part this year, with Monaco and the previous year's winner Israel deciding not to participate, and Turkey returning. Morocco made its only appearance in the contest. It was the last Eurovision Song Contest not to be hosted in the previous edition's winning country until 2023.

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

The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which won the contest in 1979, renounced its right to host the 1980 edition 13 August 1979. The resignation was the result of failed negotiations between the broadcaster and the Knesset, after lawmakers did not authorize extra budget allocations for another international production hosted by IBA in a short space of time.[3][4]

However, some days later rumours emerged that the resignation was actually the result of a controversy related to the date of the contest which had been provisionally confirmed for 19 April 1980, coinciding with the Yom HaZikaron holiday. The issue itself became controversial in Israel, thanks to a translation error in several documents sent by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to IBA at the end of 1979, when negotiations regarding the holding of the contest would begin. However, IBA tried to negotiate several times with the EBU the possibility of changing the date. However, none of them were fruitful and on 10 December 1979, the Israeli withdrawal was confirmed, following confirmation that the date chosen for the competition was 19 April 1980.[5]

Following these incidents, the EBU apologised to IBA, but even with their arguments, the date of the competition could not be changed, since the schedule for the participating broadcasters was tight and many of them already had their participation plans and programming schedules set up. This caused an atypical situation, because it was the only time in history that the country that had won the previous year could not defend its title.

Upon learning of the decision taken by the IBA, the EBU sent a public apology, claiming that "the lack of employees with knowledge of the Hebrew language has placed it in a strained situation". The issue was resolved when the IBA publicly accepted the apologies and confirmed that regardless of what happened in the 1980 contest, it would return in 1981.[6]

Many years later, Yair Lapid, son of the late Tommy Lapid who was the general director of the IBA at the time, told in his father's biography, "that when his father discovered that holding the contest for two years in a row by IBA could result in unexpected bankruptcy. In December 1979, when this argument was presented to the other broadcasters, only NOS immediately accepted".[7]

As news arrived, the EBU triggered an emergency protocol and invited the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as reserve host broadcaster, something that had already happened four other times (1960, 1963, 1972, and 1974). However, this time alleging the same financial problems that delayed the 1977 contest, the BBC ended up not taking over production. The third option was Televisión Española (TVE), due to the fact that the Spanish entry had finished second the previous year. However, with the period of the Spanish transition to democracy having already started, TVE also declined, despite the fact that the tourism board of the Costa del Sol was already working in a bid with the Convention Center of Torremolinos as the venue with the aim of harnessing the area's touristic potential.[8]

With negative responses from the reserve options, the EBU and the IBA decided to offer hosting rights to any of the other 15 broadcasters which had participated in the previous edition. 14 of them also gave negative responses to the situation, as no one expected the IBA to give up the rights. The situation only calmed down at the end of 1979, when Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) confirmed the date of the competition and its location, which was decided on 23 October.[9] As it accepted the responsibility with little time to organize and produce the event, NOS allocated a smaller budget and reused many elements of the stage design from the 1976 contest.

## Production

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As in 1970 and 1976, the stage design was the work of Roland de Groot [nl].[10] The main platform was decorated with a five-step staircase and three curved horizontal panels, in front of which participants performed their songs. The technique included a series of geometric elements suspended by cables that accompanied each performance, transforming into totally different images accompanied by colored lights that also changed with each song.[11]

Given the short time for production, the Dutch art team ended up opting to recycle several elements from the 1976 contest stage, but with different uses. They chose to rescue several pieces from sets from other productions by the broadcaster, a warehouse and also a scrapyard, observing the conditions of use. Recycling also involved the contest's visual identity, in the same way that the opening video was a reissue of the one used four years earlier.[12]

## Participants

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Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

This section contains numerous links to pages on foreign language Wikipedias. They are shown as red links with the language codes in [small blue letters] in brackets. Click on the language code to see the page in that language.

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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

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

Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Paola del Medico had represented Switzerland in 1969, Katja Ebstein had represented Germany in 1970 and in 1971, and Maggie MacNeal had represented the Netherlands in 1974 as part of Mouth and MacNeal.

Eurovision Song Contest 1980 participants[13][14] Country  | Broadcaster  | Artist  | Song  | Language  | Songwriter(s)  | Conductor

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Austria | ORF | Blue Danube [de] | "Du bist Musik"  | German  | Klaus-Peter Sattler [de] | 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 [fr] | "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 [de]
Greece | ERT | Anna Vissi and the Epikouri [nl] | "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 [fr]
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 [no]

| Sigurd Jansen
Portugal | RTP | José Cid | "Um grande, grande amor"  | Portuguese  | José Cid | Jorge Machado [pt]
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 [de]

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

* Attila Özdemiroğlu
* Şanar Yurdatapan [tr]

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

* Stephanie De Sykes
* Stuart Slater

| John Coleman

## Format

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The venue that had hosted the 1976 contest, the Congresgebouw, was again chosen to stage the event. 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 had been used in other NOS 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 appointed by each participating broadcaster introducing the entries. Apart from this, Marlous Fluitsma presented the contest almost entirely in Dutch, with exceptions in the protocol parts and in the voting where she used French and English. Thus, the broadcaster host spent only NLG 900.000 on organizing the contest, from the overall amount of NLG 1.5 million.[16][17] At least 300 journalists were onsite to cover the event.[18]

### Song presenters

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Each of the 19 contestants was presented by a presenter from that country appointed by each participating broadcaster, in some cases the same person providing the commentary.[14] Each of the songs was introduced in the same language as the song was performed, with the exception of the Irish introduction, which was made in Irish, whereas the song was performed in English. The British 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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Katja Ebstein

Maggie MacNeal

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 United Kingdom, 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[19] 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 participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1980 contest are listed below.

* Denmark - Bent Evold[20]
* Finland - Kaarina Pönniö[21]
* Ireland - David Hefferman[22]
* Sweden - Arne Weise[23]
* United Kingdom - Ray Moore[14]

## Detailed voting results

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Johnny Logan performing "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, spokespersons 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 different telephone to speak to each of the nineteen jury spokespersons, although the phones were simply props and were not connected.

Detailed voting results[24][25] |

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.[26] The contest was also reportedly broadcast in Cyprus, Israel, Iceland, and Jordan; in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union via Intervision; and in Cuba, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates, with an estimated audience of 450 million viewers.[27][28][29] The contest was reportedly broadcast via radio in countries including Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.[27] 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 | [30][31]
Belgium  | RTBF | RTBF1 | Jacques Mercier | [32]
RTBF Radio 1 |  | [33]
BRT | TV1 | Luc Appermont | [32]
Denmark  | DR | DR TV | Jørgen de Mylius | [34]
Finland  | YLE | TV1, Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi] | Heikki Harma | [35][36]
France  | TF1 | Patrick Sabatier | [37]
Germany  | ARD | Deutsches Fernsehen | Ado Schlier [de] | [38][39]
Greece  | ERT | ERT | Mako Georgiadou [el] | [40][41]
Ireland  | RTÉ | RTÉ 1 | Larry Gogan | [22][42]
RTÉ Radio 1 | Pat Kenny
Italy  | RAI | Rete Due[b] | Michele Gammino | [43]
Luxembourg  | CLT | RTL Télé-Luxembourg | Jacques Navadic | [44]
Netherlands  | NOS | Nederland 2 | Pim Jacobs | [45][46]
Hilversum 1 | Willem van Beusekom
Norway  | NRK | NRK Fjernsynet | Knut Aunbu | [47]
NRK[c] | Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal  | RTP | RTP1 |  | [48]
RDP | RDP Programa 1 |  | [49]
Spain  | TVE | TVE 1 | Miguel de los Santos [es] | [50][51]
Sweden  | SVT | TV1 | Ulf Elfving | [52]
RR [sv] | SR P3 | Kent Finell | [53]
Switzerland  | SRG SSR | TV DRS | Theodor Haller [de] | [54]
TSR | Georges Hardy [fr] | [55]
TSI[d] |  | [56]
Turkey  | TRT | TRT Televizyon | Bülend Özveren | [57][58]
Radyo 3 | Şebnem Savaşçı  | [58]
United Kingdom  | BBC | BBC1 | Terry Wogan | [59]
BBC Radio 2[e] | Steve Jones | [67]
BFBS | BFBS Radio | Andrew Pastouna  | [14]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries  Country  | Broadcaster  | Channel(s)  | Commentator(s)  | Ref(s)

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Cyprus  | CyBC | RIK |  | [68]
Hong Kong  | TVB | TVB Jade[f] |  | [69]
TVB Pearl[f] |
Iceland  | RÚV | Sjónvarpið[g] | Björn Baldursson  | [70]
Israel  | IBA | Israeli Television[h] |  | [71]
Reshet Bet [he], Reshet Gimel [he] |  | [72]
Jordan  | JTV | JTV2  |  | [73]
Netherlands Antilles  | TeleAruba[i] |  | [74]
Romania  | TVR | Programul 1[j] |  | [75]
South Korea  | KBS | KBS[k] |  | [76]

## Notes

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1. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[15]
2. ^ Deferred broadcast at 22:00 (CEST)[43]
3. ^ Deferred broadcast at 22:40 (CET)[47]
4. ^ Broadcast through a second audio programme on TSR[54]
5. ^ Simulcast on BBC Radio 1,[60] BBC Radio Birmingham,[61] BBC Radio Blackburn,[62] BBC Radio Carlisle,[63] BBC Radio Cleveland,[63] BBC Radio Derby,[64] BBC Radio Manchester,[65] BBC Radio Merseyside,[66] and BBC Radio Newcastle.[63]
6. ^ a b Deferred broadcast the following day at 9:30 (HKT)[69]
7. ^ Delayed broadcast on 26 April 1980 at 21:30 (WET)[70]
8. ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 April 1980 at 21:30 (IST)[71]
9. ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 July 1980 at 16:00 (ADT)[74]
10. ^ Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 4 May 1980 at 14:40 (EET)[75]
11. ^ Delayed broadcast on 3 May 1980 at 22:30 (KST)[76]

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