Eurovision Song Contest 1992

Malmö Isstadion, Malmö – host venue of the 1992 contest.

Malmö is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania. The metropolis is a gamma world city (as listed by the GaWC) and is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of above 300,000.[2]

Malmö Isstadion, a 4,800-seat indoor sports arena, was chosen as the host venue for the contest. Opened in 1968, it is the former home arena of the Malmö Redhawks ice hockey team, and underwent major renovation in 2013 in time for the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

The contest took place at Malmö Isstadion, where the stage set was in the shape of a Viking ship's bow with a dragon in the centre and stars on each side. The opening sequence included women dressed in the Swedish colours of yellow and blue, twirling ribbons. The filmic postcard tradition was continued with clips based on each country. Last year's winner, Carola, appeared on stage in a white dress with sheer sleeves, a rhinestone collar and cuffs and sang “All The Reasons To Live”.

The 1992 Eurovision was the biggest contest at that time, with 23 countries competing. Only Monaco and Morocco failed to compete out of all the countries which had entered the contest in the past.

This contest marked the last participation of Yugoslavia, although it was not the same country that had participated from 1961 to 1991, but actually, Serbia and Montenegro, formally known as the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia". That was the country's last entry until 2004, as it was banned from the contest following the sanctions on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, following the Bosnian War and Croatian War of Independence.

After scoring second place consecutively (1988, 1989) and scoring some disappointing results (1990, 1991), the United Kingdom sent Michael Ball with a contemporary pop song "One Step Out Of Time", which was the hot favourite to win the contest. The British delegation was greeted in Malmö with a banner reading "Welcome Untied Kingdom".[3]

However, the Irish sent Linda Martin, who had the past experience of coming in 2nd place in the 1984 contest and as then paired up once again with Johnny Logan, who had won the contest twice before as a performer. In the end, Linda the contest won for Ireland with a 16-point lead over the United Kingdom, starting the chain of Irish wins in the 1990s. Malta with "Little Child", performed by Mary Spiteri, also scored very well coming in 3rd place with 123 points. This was the first time that the three highest-placed songs had all been in English. Sweden, the host country, finished 2nd last.

Switzerland had to replace its original choice of entry, "Soleil, soleil" which was to have been performed by Géraldine Olivier. The song did not comply with some of the rules of the national selection contest and so, despite having won, it did not go to Malmö.

The top three songs were all performed in English which led to some delegations complaining that English-speaking countries had an unfair advantage.

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs.

12 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
4	Italy	Finland,  France,  Netherlands,  Norway
	Malta	Luxembourg,  Portugal,  Spain,  Sweden
	United Kingdom	Austria,  Belgium,  Denmark,  Germany
3	Ireland	Greece,  Malta,  Turkey
2	France	Israel,   Switzerland
	Greece	Cyprus,  Italy
1	Austria	Ireland
	Iceland	United Kingdom
	Israel	Yugoslavia
	Switzerland	Iceland

National broadcasters were able to send a commentary team 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	FS1	Ernst Grissemann	[20]
	Hitradio Ö3	Martin Blumenau
Belgium	RTBF1	French: Claude Delacroix	[21]
	BRTN TV1	Dutch: André Vermeulen	[22]
	RTBF La Première	French: Stéphane Dupont and Patrick Duhamel
	BRTN Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put
Cyprus	RIK 1	Evi Papamichail	[16]
	RIK Deftero	Pavlos Pavlou
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius	[23]
	DR P3	Jørgen de Mylius, Jesper Bæhrenz and Andrew Jensen
Finland	YLE TV1	Erkki Pohjanheimo and Kati Bergman	[24]
	Radiomafia	Sanna Kojo
France	Antenne 2	Thierry Beccaro	[21]
	France Inter	Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Jan Hofer	[25]
	Deutschlandfunk/WDR 4	Horst Senker
Greece	ET1	Dafni Bokota	[26]
	ERA 1	Giorgos Mitropoulos
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Árni Snævarr	[27]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Pat Kenny
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Yitzhak Shim'oni
Italy	Rai Due	Peppi Franzelin	[28]
	Rai Radio 2	Antonio De Robertis
Luxembourg	RTL Hei Elei	Maurice Molitor
Malta	TVM	Anna Bonanno
Netherlands	Nederland 3	Willem van Beusekom	[29]
	Radio 2	Daniël Dekker
Norway	NRK	John Andreassen	[30]
	NRK P1	Nadia Hasnaoui
Portugal	RTP Canal 1	Eládio Clímaco	[15]
Spain	La 2	José Luis Uribarri	[31]
Sweden	TV2	Jesper Aspegren and Björn Kjellman	[14]
	SR P3	Kalle Oldby and Lotta Engberg
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Mariano Tschuor
	TSR	French: Ivan Frésard	[32]
	TSI	Italian: Emanuela Gaggini
Turkey	TV1	Bülend Özveren
	TRT Radyo 3	Canan Kumbasar
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[5]
	BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce	[5]
Yugoslavia	TVB 1	Mladen Popović
	Radio Belgrade 1	Dina Čolić

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV	Unknown	[5]
Hungary	MTV1	István Vágó
Macedonia	MTV 1	Jon Ilija Apelgrin
New Zealand	TVNZ	Unknown	[5]
Poland	TVP1	Artur Orzech and Maria Szabłowska
Russia	RTR	Unknown	[33]
South Korea	KBS	Unknown	[5]
Slovenia	SLO1	Miša Molk	[34]

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