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| Dates | May 12, 2007 Final May 10, 2007 Semi-final |
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| Presenters | Jaana Pelkonen Mikko Leppilampi Krisse Salminen (Guest Host) |
| Host broadcaster | YLE |
| Venue | Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, Finland |
| Winning song | Molitva (Serbia) |
| Voting system | Each country votes by tele-vote or SMS. The country's 10 favourites are awarded 12, 10, then 8 through 1 points based on votes. All participating countries present their awarded points, totalling to determine a winner. |
| Number of entries | 42 Total - 28 in the Semi-Final; 24 in the final, 10 of which came from the semi-final. |
| Countries making a debut | Czech Republic, Georgia, Montenegro, Serbia |
| Returning Countries | Austria, Hungary |
| Withdrawing Countries | Monaco |
| Null points | None |
| Interval acts | Apocalyptica, Lordi |
The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was won by Serbia [1] and was held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland from May 10 (semi-final) to May 12 (final). The hosting broadcaster of the contest was YLE.
Finland earned the right to host the event thanks to the Heavy Metal band Lordi winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as Finland's representatives. The victory in Athens, Greece on the May 20 2006 was Finland's first in their history of competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. It also meant that the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the first Eurovision Song Contest to be arranged in Finland. The hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki were popular Finnish television personality Jaana Pelkonen and Finnish musician, stage performer, and actor, Mikko Leppilampi, with Krisse Salminen in the green room.
The official logo of the contest remained the same with the flag in the center of the heart being changed to the Finnish. The EBU and YLE announced that the theme for this years contest will be “True Fantasy”, which embraced Finland and Finnish-ness in terms of the polarities associated with the country.[2] The design agency “Dog Design” is responsible for the design of the visual theme of the contest which incorporated vibrant kaleidoscopic patterns formed from various symbols including exclamation marks and the letter "F".[3] On February 20, 2007 a reworked official website for the contest was launched marking the first public exhibition of this year's theme. An official CD was released, while the DVD will be released after the contest. A new introduction to Eurovision merchandise was a board game, which mimics the contest in the process of creating and establishing an entry and then undergoing an interesting voting procedure in the games conclusion. An official fan book was also released.
The Hartwall Areena, Finland's largest ice hockey arena, was always the favorite to be chosen to host the contest. The city of Helsinki has the best connections and facilities in the country, therefore allowing as many people as possible to experience the Eurovision Song Contest. A budget of €13 million was also presented for arranging the contest. Other bids to host the contest came from the other Finnish cities such as Espoo, Turku, and Tampere.
A record of 42 countries participated. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) put aside its former maximum of 40 countries, which would have necessitated excluding some countries using a ranking order scheme, to accept all applicants.
On March 12, 2007, the official draws for the running order for the semi-final, final, and voting procedure took place. A new feature introduced during the draw allowed five wildcard countries from the semi-final and three countries from the final to choose their starting position. The head of the delegation would go on stage and choose the number they wished to take. In the semi-final, Austria, Andorra, Turkey, Slovenia, and Latvia were able to choose their positions. In the final, Armenia, Ukraine, and Germany were able to use this privilege. Ultimately, all countries opted for spots in the second half of both evenings. Shortly after the draw, all of the entries were approved by the EBU, ending controversy surrounding the possible disqualification of the Israeli song. The United Kingdom chose their entry after the deadline because they were granted special dispensation from the EBU.
The event was sponsored by European communications group TeliaSonera, and — as with several previous contests — Nobel Biocare.
Individual entries
Template:Entries of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
Participating countries
Participating countries in a Eurovision Song Contest must be active members of the EBU.
42 countries submitted preliminary applications. Despite the fact that in previous years the maximum number of participating countries was 40, the EBU stated that all will be allowed to participate in 2007. Though they did not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Montenegro, Georgia, Austria and Hungary all confirmed that they would enter the contest in 2007. [4] Monaco announced its withdrawal on December 12, 2006, [5] and the EBU announced the final lineup of 42 countries on December 15, 2006.
Final
The participating countries of the final were:
- the four automatic qualifiers (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom);
- the top 10 placed countries from the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 final (other than the automatic qualifiers)
- the top 10 placed countries from the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 semi-final;
The final was held on May 12, 2007, 19:00 UTC/GMT.
Countries in bold automatically qualified for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Final.
Serbia won[6] the 2007 Eurovison Song Contest, with 268 points. Ukraine came in second and Russia third.
Semi-final
The semi-final was held on Thursday May 10, 2007, 19:00 UTC/GMT. For the first time, up to 28 countries were allowed to participate.
With those who qualified for the final in bold, the contestants were:
Non-participating regions where the contest will be broadcast
- Australia
- Of the countries which cannot participate,
Australia will broadcast the event on SBS[7]. It will not however broadcast it live due to the difference in Australian time zones. The semi-final was screened on 12 May, and the final on May 13. Australia gets the United Kingdom's broadcast, including commentary from Paddy O'Connell and Terry Wogan. - Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan were willing to enter the contest but since AzTV only became an EBU member on January 1 2007, they missed the deadline for entries (December 2006) and were instructed to wait for another year [4]. Another Azerbaijan broadcaster, ITV, broadcast the contest. It was the only non-participating broadcaster this year to send its own commentators to the contest.- Monaco
Monaco broadcast the final on TMC after having withdrawn from this competition in December 2006. A return is possible next year.- Slovakia
Slovakia broadcast the final on their national television in 2007. STV is in the process of examining their budget to re-enter the contest in 2008.- Worldwide
- A live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast worldwide by satellite through European streams such as ERT World, TVE Internacional, TVP Polonia, RTP Internacional and TVR i. The official Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary using the peer to peer transport Octoshape.
- Possible Broadcasts
Japan, 
Kazakhstan, the 
Netherlands Antilles, 
Suriname and 
Vietnam may broadcast as well, as they have also broadcast the contest in the past. While 
Liechtenstein has no television broadcaster of its own, Liechtensteiners can watch the contest on Swiss, Austrian or German television. 
Gibraltar will broadcast only the final.
High-definition broadcast
YLE produced the event in 1080i HD and 5.1 Surround Sound.[8] This was the first year that the event was broadcast live in HD. The BBC in the United Kingdom showed the final in high definition on BBC HD.[9] The Swedish broadcaster SVT broadcast both the Semi Final and the Final on their HD-channel SVT HD.[10]
Score sheet
All countries participating in the contest were required to use televoting and/or SMS voting during both evenings of the contest. In the event of technical difficulties, or if the votes of the country did not meet the EBU threshold, then a back-up jury's results were used. A draw was held in Helsinki to establish the order in which each country presented their votes during the final.
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| Contestants | Bosnia-Herzegovina |  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Spain | 0 |  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Belarus | 4 | 0 |  |
0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FYR Macedonia | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Slovenia | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 5 |  |
4 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 |  |
8 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 |  |
6 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Latvia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 10 |  |
0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russia | 2 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 |  |
0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
0 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serbia | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 8 |  |
6 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 12 | |
| Ukraine | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 |  |
1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Romania | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |  |
0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bulgaria | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 |  |
6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
| Turkey | 10 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 |  |
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| Armenia | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 |  |
2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | |
| Moldova | 0 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |  |
0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rows are ordered by appearance in the final. Columns are ordered by a pre-determined draw. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commentators
Austria - Andi Knoll- Belarus - Denis Kurian
Belgium - Jean-Pierre Hautier (RTBF) / André Vermeulen & Anja Daems (VRT)- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Dejan Kukrić
- Bulgaria - Georgi Kushvaliev & Elena Rosberg
Croatia - Duško Ćurlić
Cyprus - Vasso Komninou
Czech Republic - Kateřina Kristelová
Denmark - Søren Nystrøm Rasted & Adam Duvå Hall [11]
Estonia - Marko Reikop- Finland - Heikki Paasonen & Ellen Jokikunnas & Asko Murtomäki (fi) / Thomas Lundin (sv)
- France - Julien Lepers & Tex
- FYR Macedonia - Milanka Rašić
- Germany - Peter Urban
- Greece - Fotis Sergoulopoulos & Maria Bakodimou
- Hungary - Gábor Gundel Takács & Éva Novodomszky
Iceland - Sigmar Guðmundsson- Ireland - Marty Whelan
- Latvia - Kārlis Streips
- Lithuania - Darius Užkuraitis
Malta - Antonia Micallef
Montenegro - Dražen Bauković, Tamara Ivanković
Netherlands - Cornald Maas (both evenings) & Paul de Leeuw (final only)
Norway - Per Sundnes
Poland - Artur Orzech
Portugal - Isabel Angelino and Jorge Gabriel- Romania - Andreea Demirgian
- Russia - Yuri Aksyuta and Yelena Batinova
- Serbia - Duška Vučinić-Lučić
- Slovenia - Mojca Mavec
Switzerland - Bernhard Thurnheer(SF), Jean-Marc Richard (TSR), Claudio Lazzarino and Sandy Altermatt (RTSI)- Spain - Beatriz Pécker
- Sweden - Kristian Luuk and Josef Sterzenbach
- Turkey - Hakan Urgancı
- Ukraine - Tymur Miroshnychenko
- United Kingdom - Paddy O'Connell & Sarah Cawood (semi-final) & Terry Wogan (final)
Spokespersons
Andorra - Marian van de Wal- Armenia - Sirusho
- Belgium - Maureen Louys
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Vesna Andree Zaimović
- Bulgaria - Mira Dobreva
- Croatia - Barbara Kolar
- Czech Republic - Andrea Savane
- Denmark - Susanne Georgi
- Estonia - Laura Põldvere
- Finland - Laura Voutilainen
- France - Vanessa Dolmen
- Macedonia - Elena Risteska
- Germany - Thomas Hermanns
- Greece - Alexis Kostalas
- Hungary - Éva Novodomszky
- Iceland - Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
- Ireland - Linda Martin
Israel - Jason Danino-Holt- Latvia - Jānis Šipkēvics
- Lithuania - Lavija Šurnaitė
- Malta - Mireille Bonello
- Netherlands - Paul de Leeuw (the 12 points were announced by Edsilia Rombley)
- Norway - Synnøve Svabø
- Poland - Maciej Orłoś
- Portugal - Francisco Mendes
- Romania - Andreea Marin Bănică
- Russia - Yana Churikova
- Serbia - Maja Nikolić
- Slovenia - Peter Poles
- Spain - Ainhoa Arbizu
- Sweden - André Pops
- Switzerland - Sven Epiney
- Turkey - Meltem Yazgan
- Ukraine - Yuriy Hromnytsky
- United Kingdom - Fearne Cotton
Map
Before contest
* Dark Green = The "Big 4" countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain) which qualify automatically for the final
* Light Green = Countries qualified for the final
* Red = Countries in the semi-final
* Purple = Countries that are participating for the first time and are in the semi-final
* Orange = Countries that are returning to the contest and are in the semi-final
* Yellow = Countries that have participated in the past but will not this year
After semi-final
* Dark Green = The "Big 4" countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain) which qualify directly to the final
* Light Green = Countries that qualified directly into the final due to their performance in Eurovision 2006
* Purple = Countries that qualified for the final by finishing in the top 10 in the semi-final
* Red = Countries that failed to qualify from the semi-final
* Yellow = Countries that have participated in the past but will not this year
References
- ^ SERBIA WINS 2008 CONTEST!, Eurovision.tv
- ^ The 2007 Eurovision Song Contest theme is True Fantasy, 27 November 2006, YLE
- ^ Eurovision.tv meets dog design, Eurovision.tv
- ^ a b ESC 2007 Event page, ESCKaz.com
- ^ EXCLUSIVE: Monaco withdraws, December 12 2006, ESCtoday.com
- ^ Eurovision Song Contest - Helsinki 2007
- ^ Eurovision to be aired in Australia, 1 April 2007, ESCtoday.com
- ^ Technical Partners Appointed for Eurovision Song Contest, 16 March 2007
- ^ Eurovision Song Contest 2007 schedule, BBC
- ^ Nu storsatsar SVT på hd-tv, SVT.se
- ^ Vi tager MGP dødsens alvorligt, BT.dk
External links
- Official Eurovision Site
- Official Helsinki Tourist Information
- Official Tickets for Eurovision 2007
- Semi-Final Results (ESC)
- Serbia celebrates the victory of "Molitva" at Eurovision 2007 at the streets of Belgrade
