Croatia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Croatia

Croatia

Member station HRT
National selection events National Selection (2003–2006)
Internal Selection (2014)
Appearances
Appearances 5
First appearance 2003
Last appearance 2014
Best result 1st: 2003
Worst result Last: 2014
External links
Croatia's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see
Croatia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014

Croatia has entered the Junior Eurovision Song Contest five times, first entering in 2003. Croatia was the first winner of the contest, with Dino Jelusić winning for Croatia with "Ti si moja prva ljubav" in Copenhagen.

History

Location of Croatia.

Croatia are one of the sixteen countries to have made their debut at the inaugural Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003, which took place on 15 November 2003 at the Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1] After problems occurred with the prospective host for the 2004 contest, Croatian broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) stepped in to host the contest.[2] However, this was later abandoned after it was revealed the venue HRT had planned on using for the contest was to be in use during the period of the contest.[3] HRT was one of six other broadcasters to enter a bid to host the 2005 contest, however this was unsuccessful.[4] Croatia also expressed an interest in hosting the 2006 contest[5] and made another unsuccessful bid to host the 2007 contest.[6] HRT withdrew from the 2007 contest, due to expense and difficulties in broadcasting the contest live.[7]

On 23 September 2014, it was announced that Croatia could possibly return to the 2014 contest in Marsa, Malta due to a tweet composed by the Executive Supervisor of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Vladislav Yakovlev.[8] Their return was officially confirmed by the EBU on 26 September 2014, with the 2014 contest being scheduled to be broadcast on HRT 2.[9] On 23 June 2015, it was announced that HRT would withdraw from the 2015 contest, leaving Croatia out of the edition which took place in Bulgaria.[10] On 17 August 2016, HRT announced that they have no plans to return to the contest in 2016.[11]

Participation

Table key

 1st place   2nd place   3rd place   Last place 

Year Artist Song Language Place Points
2003 Dino Jelusić "Ti si moja prva ljubav" Croatian 1 134
2004 Nika Turković "Hej mali" Croatian 3 126
2005 Lorena Jelusić "Rock Baby" Croatian 12 36
2006 Mateo Đido "Lea" Croatian 10 50
Did not participate between 2007 and 2013
2014 Josie "Game Over" Croatian, English 16 13
Did not participate between 2015 and 2016

Broadcasts and voting

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[12] The Croatian broadcaster, HRT, sent their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Croatian language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Croatia. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2003.

Year(s) Commentator Spokesperson
2003 TBC TBC
2004 TBC TBC
2005 TBC Nika Turković
2006 TBC Lorena Jelusić
2007-2013 No broadcast Did not participate
2014 Ivan Planinić and Aljoša Šerić Sarah
2015-2016 No broadcast Did not participate

Voting history

The tables below shows Croatia's top-five voting history rankings up until their most recent participation in 2014:

Most points given
Rank Points Country
1 30  Belarus
2 28  Spain
3 22
4 19  Belgium
5 16

Most points received
Rank Points Country
1 44  Macedonia
2 26  Netherlands
3 25
4 19
5 18  Denmark

See also

References

  1. ↑ García, Belén (7 September 2015). "#BestOfJESC – Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003". esc-plus.com. ESC+Plus. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Bakker, Sietse (2004-06-01). "Junior 2004 in Croatia!". ESCToday. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
  3. ↑ Bakker, Sietse (2004-06-17). "'Junior contest moves to Norway'". ESCToday. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
  4. ↑ Philips, Roel (2004-03-04). "Belgium organises Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005!". ESCToday.
  5. ↑ 'Croatia and Romania want to host junior 2006'
  6. ↑ West-Soley, Richard (17 September 2006). "Dutch JESC decision 'took ten minutes'". ESCToday.com. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  7. ↑ Klier, Marcus (2007-01-20). "HRT Withdraw from JESC 2007". ESCToday. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  8. ↑ Garcia, Belen (23 September 2014). "Junior Eurovision: Looks like Croatia is back!". ESC+Plus. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Fisher, Luke James (26 September 2014). "Croatia returns to Junior Eurovision!". junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Granger, Anthony (23 June 2015). "Croatia withdraws from Junior Eurovision". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Granger, Anthony (17 August 2016). "Croatia will not return Junior Eurovision 2016". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  12. ↑ Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.

External links

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