The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fourth edition of the annual

Junior Eurovision Song Contest The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong) is an international song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003. It is held in a diff ...

for young singers aged 8 to 15. On 2 December 2006, the contest was broadcast live from

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making it the second time the contest had been held in a capital city. It was organised by the Romanian national broadcaster,

Romanian Television Televiziunea Română (), more commonly referred to as TVR , is the short name for Societatea Română de Televiziune ("Romanian Television Society"; SRTV), the Romanian public television. It operates six channels: TVR1, TVR2, TVR3, TVR Info, T ...

(TVR), in co-operation with the

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(EBU). The show was broadcast live in the competing countries, as well as

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and the Australian television channel

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(SBS) that acquired the rights for broadcasting the show, which was broadcast on 1 January 2007. This was

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's first participation in a Eurovision event as an independent nation. The contest was won by

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from with the song "

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Location

Bidding phase and host selection

On 5 October 2005, it was confirmed that TVR had won the rights of hosting the contest over

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of the

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(who hosted the next contest).

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also expressed an interest in hosting this contest.

Venue

Polyvalent Hall from Bucharest ( ro, Sala Polivalentă din București) is a multi-purpose hall in

, located in the

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. It is used for

concert A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety a ...

s, indoor sports such as

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

combat sport A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat. In many combat sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent, submitting the opponent with a hold, disabling the oppon ...

s and

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. The hall was opened in 1974 but has since been renovated. It has a maximum seating capacity of 12,000 for concerts and 6,000 for handball.

Format

Presenters

The presenters in charge of conducting the event were

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and Ioana Ivan, who also appeared in the green room. Marin has been a presenter at the host broadcaster since 1994 and achieved national fame as the host of '' Surprize, Surprize'', the Romanian version of British light entertainment show '' Surprise Surprise'', on

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. Marin has twice appeared on the

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, reading out the Romanian televote results in and . Ivan is an actress and television personality and the first child presenter of the event.

Opening and interval acts

The show was opened by various circus style dancers and performers including fifteen children, champions from the

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, plus characters from the

Bucharest State Circus The Bucharest Metropolitan Circus ( ro, Circul Metropolitan București), also known as ''Bucharest State Circus'', or ''Globus Circus'', is a circus located at 15 Circului Alley in Bucharest, Romania. Built in 1960-1961 by architects Nicolae Por ...

and an on-stage appearance by

Mihai Trăistariu Mihai Trăistariu (; born December 16, 1979 in Constanța, Romania), also known as simply Mihai (stylized as M I H A I or MIHAI), is a Romanian singer and songwriter. He is best known for representing Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 20 ...

, dressed as

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and was followed by the traditional flag parade introducing the 15 participating countries. The interval act included a performance by last year's winner

Ksenia Sitnik Ksenia Mikhailovna Sitnik, translit. ''Ksienija Michajlaŭna Sitnik''; russian: Ксения Михайловна Ситник, translit. ''Kseniya Mikhaylovna Sitnik'' (born 15 May 1995), sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik or Xen ...

, a "fight" between

street dance Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, waacking etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created organically from a culture, ...

and traditional Romanian dance in addition to a remix of songs by the last three Romanian participants at the contest.

Participation

Originally 16 countries had initially signed up for the contest but one unspecified country later dropped out.

Broadcasting in Belgium

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(RTBF) of the French-speaking

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in Belgium left the contest this year after co-hosting the previous edition with Flemish broadcaster

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(VRT). They claimed that continuing with the contest was not in their interests financially. The viewing figures for the 2005 contest for RTBF were also low. Belgium continued to be represented at the contest by VRT.

2007 Croatian withdrawal

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(HRT) of Croatia announced that they would withdraw from the 2007 edition and future contests, as otherwise they would have faced a fine from the EBU as they did not screen this year's event live and did not broadcast it on a nationally available network, instead airing it on satellite-only channel

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. Broadcasters previously had to screen the event live and on a channel available to the majority of the public however this rule was scrapped in 2007. Croatia withdrew the following year and would not participate for seven years until they returned in

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Withdrawn countries

The Scandinavian broadcasters; DR of

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(NRK) of

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and

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(SVT) of

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; decided to withdraw from the contest for various reasons, one being that the content put too much pressure on the participating children. Instead they staged a solely Scandinavian contest called

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in Stockholm, as they did in

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. However, Sweden did participate, which was quite unexpected since they placed 15th all earlier years, with commercial broadcaster

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supplying Sweden's entry. This meant that Sweden participated in both contests.

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, the

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broadcaster of the contest from 2003 up until and including 2005, withdrew from the contest, after they were originally given the rights to broadcast it when the

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Location

Bidding phase and host selection

Venue

Format

Presenters

Opening and interval acts

Participation

Broadcasting in Belgium

2007 Croatian withdrawal

Withdrawn countries

Participants and results

Detailed voting results

12 points

Spokespersons

Other countries

Broadcasts

Official album

See also

Notes

References

External links