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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).

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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)
Interval act	The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band with The Lee Jackson Dancers
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      Participating 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
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Ireland "What's Another Year"
1979 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1981

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

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 holiday, which meant that Israel could not even participate at all, marking the only 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 the first minister 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.

Format

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, the soundtrack 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.

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.

Germany were the runner-up for this year. They would finish in second place again the following year, before finally winning in 1982. Germany would go on to finish second again in 1985 and 1987, making the 1980s their most successful decade in the contest. After relatively poor placings in the two previous years, the United Kingdom returned to form by coming third.

Song presenters

Each of the 19 contestants was presented by a presenter from that country.[4] Five countries took advantage and used their commentators from their respective broadcasters present in The Hague and they had the responsibility to also perform these function (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Portugal used their television commentators, while Turkey chose their radio commentator). Each of the songs was introduced in one of the official languages ​​of the competing country.The UK presenter was incorrectly identified in the onscreen caption as 'Noel Edmunds' and the Finnish presenter as 'Heikki Haarma'.

Participating countries

After Israel announced its non-participation, Morocco entered into the contest instead. Monaco also withdrew from the contest, and would not return until 2004.

Conductors

With the exception of Belgium, each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[5][4] This was the only contest to feature a Black conductor conducting an entry, that being Italy's conductor Del Newman.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Paola del Medico	Switzerland	1969
Katja Ebstein	Germany	1970, 1971
Maggie MacNeal	Netherlands	1974 (part of Mouth and MacNeal)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[6][7]	Points	Place[8]
1	Austria	Blue Danube	"Du bist Musik"	German	64	8
2	Turkey	Ajda Pekkan	"Pet'r Oil"	Turkish	23	15
3	Greece	Anna Vissi and the Epikouri	"Autostop" (Ωτοστόπ)	Greek	30	13
4	Luxembourg	Sophie and Magaly	"Papa Pingouin"	French	56	9
5	Morocco	Samira Bensaïd	"Bitaqat Hub" (بطاقة حب)	Arabic	7	18
6	Italy	Alan Sorrenti	"Non so che darei"	Italian	87	6
7	Denmark	Bamses Venner	"Tænker altid på dig"	Danish	25	14
8	Sweden	Tomas Ledin	"Just nu!"	Swedish	47	10
9	Switzerland	Paola	"Cinéma"	French	104	4
10	Finland	Vesa-Matti Loiri	"Huilumies"	Finnish	6	19
11	Norway	Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta	"Sámiid ædnan"	Norwegian[lower-alpha 1]	15	16
12	Germany	Katja Ebstein	"Theater"	German	128	2
13	United Kingdom	Prima Donna	"Love Enough for Two"	English	106	3
14	Portugal	José Cid	"Um grande, grande amor"	Portuguese[lower-alpha 2]	71	7
15	Netherlands	Maggie MacNeal	"Amsterdam"	Dutch	93	5
16	France	Profil	"Hé, hé M'sieurs dames"	French	45	11
17	Ireland	Johnny Logan	"What's Another Year"	English	143	1
18	Spain	Trigo Limpio	"Quédate esta noche"	Spanish	38	12
19	Belgium	Telex	"Euro-Vision"	French	14	17

Detailed voting results

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

Detailed voting results[9][10]

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

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
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

Spokespersons

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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1980 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

Broadcasts

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Each national broadcaster sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	FS2	Günther Ziesel [de]
	Hitradio Ö3	Walter Richard Langer [de]
Belgium	RTBF1	French: Jacques Mercier
	BRT TV1	Dutch: Luc Appermont
	RTBF La Première	French: Marc Danval
	BRT Radio 1	Dutch: Herwig Haes
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Erik Wiedemann [dk]
Finland	YLE TV1 and Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi]	Heikki Harma and Aarre Elo [fi]	[11][12]
France	TF1	Patrick Sabatier
	France Inter	Julien Lepers
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier [de]
	Deutschlandfunk/hr3	Roger Horné [de]
Greece	ERT	Mako Georgiadou [el]
	Proto Programma	Dimitris Konstantaras [el]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Larry Gogan
	RTÉ Radio 1	Pat Kenny
Italy	Rete 2	Michele Gammino
Luxembourg	RTL Télé Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic
	RTL	André Torrent [fr]
Morocco	TVM	TBC
Netherlands	Nederland 2	Pim Jacobs
	Hilversum 1	Willem van Beusekom
Norway	NRK	Knut Aunbu
	NRK P1	Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal	RTP1	Isabel Wolmar [pt]
Spain	TVE1	Miguel de los Santos [es]
Sweden	SVT TV1	Ulf Elfving	[11]
	SR P3	Kent Finell
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]	[13]
	TSR	French: Georges Hardy [fr]	[14]
	TSI[lower-alpha 3]	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
Turkey	Ankara Television	Bülend Özveren
	Radyo 3	Şebnem Savaşçı
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[4][15]
	BBC Radio 2	Steve Jones	[4]
	BFBS Radio	Andrew Pastouna	[4]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Hong Kong	TVB Jade (delayed broadcast on 20 April 1980)	Cantonese: Mary Hon (韓馬利), English: Tang Ying-mun (鄧英敏)	[16]
	TVB Pearl (delayed broadcast on 20 April 1980)	English: Melvin Wong Kam-sang (黃錦燊)	[16][17]
Yugoslavia	TVB 2	Serbo-Croatian: Milovan Ilić
	TVZ 1	Serbo-Croatian: Oliver Mlakar
	TVL 1	Slovene: Tomaž Terček [sl]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1980

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[ru] Евровидение-1980

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1980 — 25-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 19 апреля 1980 года в городе Гаага (Нидерланды), в местном Дворце конгрессов, несмотря на победу Израиля годом ранее. Нидерландский вещатель согласился принять конкурс после того, как Израиль заявил, что не сможет провести Евровидение второй год подряд.

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