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Latest comment: 2 years ago by Bray0829 in topic June 2024

New Zealand Television

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"Although New Zealand has never actually participated in this contest, colour television was introduced in that country for this particular occasion."

This sentence is fine as long as a source is provided, but seeing that there isn't one and the claim that the sentence makes, it should be omitted, so I will take it out now. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 02:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

On the subject of colour television - this was also the first thing Israeli television broadcast in colour - and it showed, as the pictures kept cutting to black-and-white at times.

Arthurvasey (talk) 11:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Three-language voting

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This was the first of three years in which three-language voting was tried. The female presenter spoke good French, the male presenter good English. Both were able to repeat the scores, not only in the other language but also in Hebrew. Most of the country names were recognisable in Hebrew, except France, Greece and Spain.

The attempts at three-language voting in 1983 and 1991 were not nearly as successful. EmleyMoor (talk) 20:59, 13 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Turkey

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Lies, lies. The reason that turkey did not participate was because it was held in jerusalem, which was an occupied city. The article claims that because turkey was a muslim singing not wanting to sing in a jewish country, nonsense. Greek, a christian country, did not participate for the same reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.87.42.232 (talk) 02:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Greece was at the Jerusalem contest. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 00:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Turkey withdrew less than a month before the final, supposedly due to pressure from the Arab world that it would not be suitable for a muslim nation to take part in an event in Israel.

"Gali Atari and Milk and Honey"

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Presently, the table here, as well as on Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest, lists "Gali Atari and Milk and Honey" as the Israeli entry. However, at the time of the competition, Gali Atari was part of Milk and Honey, and "Milk and Honey" was credited as the artist on the night. The same is currently the case for the contest's entry on the Eurovision website. Should the entry be revised? Lordtobi () 16:32, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

I agree. Let's wait a few days to see if anyone else has any input before changing it. Grk1011 (talk) 15:13, 31 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Been 14 days, going bold. Lordtobi () 22:45, 12 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
Done, and cleaned up a lot of links along the way. Honestly surprised people do not regularly confuse Milk and Honey (group) with Milk & Honey (group). Lordtobi () 00:11, 13 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

June 2024

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Flemish Radio 2 transmitted ESC 1979 too.
Commentators in the BRT studio in Brussels were Betty Mellaerts and Julien Put 80.115.9.74 (talk) 16:41, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Do you have the source for those details? Bray0829 (talk) 16:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply