Eurovision 1994: Hat-tricks and new tricks | Super-cut with animated scoreboard
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- An edited down version of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with a scoreboard using today’s technology. Nothing but a fun lockdown project.
This edit will give a flavour of the evening (30th April) with Terry Wogan’s commentary, and what an evening it was for all Irishmen and women, including Terry!
In the past, I think I’ve been guilty of mixing up the Irish Contests in my head somewhat. Watching 1994 cold and then editing it, I think this programme comes across as the high point for Ireland in Eurovision. Yes, one headline result that can sound dull, but this show was full of interesting changes and great technical achievements. It feels like such a step-up from Millstreet: whereas 93 emphasised rural Ireland, 94 focused on Irish power. The emerging ‘Celtic Tiger’ was showing its teeth economically, but here we had Irish cultural power shown on every inch of the screen: from the impressive stage full of skyscrapers, to the intro and of course, the greatest interval act of all…RIVERDANCE (Terry’s reaction at the end is marvellous). It gave the impression that this might have felt like how Brits felt watching the London 2012 Opening Ceremony… Team GB went onto win Gold, here Ireland kept the trophy for a record breaking third time.
This contest was quite lopsided. The juries leant heavily on a few songs for much of the early part of the voting, leaving most of the right-hand side of the board with 0 on it. Points mounted up steadily for a reflective song that mourned the coming of change - at a time when a lot in the world was changing.
One could suggest that a record 7 (seven) new entrants might have damaged the quality of the competition, but three of the seven would end up in the top 10 (two in the top 5), but the other four went straight back down again, taking some regulars with them - keep an eye out for Spain’s last minute reprieve.
Together with some new camera toys (you might spot rail cameras at the back), we also get to see the faces of some of those voices we’ve been hearing since 1980! It’s surprising that this section went so smoothly. We also say goodbye to the traditional Eurovision ident and to the feeling that UK will consistently challenge the leader. We start the UK’s experimental phase in Eurovision, with this year’s entry being impressively modern sounding…perhaps that was one change too many for the juries.
DESIGN AND THE BOARD
I’d been dreading ‘the one with the stop-motion oil painting logo’ for a while but I’m glad I went with a considerably different look to 1993, even though the basis of the board is similar. I managed to play about (extensively) with paintbrushes and see what I could recreate of the logo. I think this logo sits less harmoniously with the other design direction of the show, but has a definite Celtic vibe to it and that’s fitting enough.
I was considering having skyscrapers in the background, to emulate the stage…but of course the voting is done from a neo-classical stage-ette (with added neon). If I tried to fit in with that, we’d have 1991 columns, and the return of Trajan Pro as a typeface (I used that in 91, but RTÉ use it in their 94 board).
I decided to pare down the ‘choppiness’ of the blue background to make the graphic a bit calmer as I had made the individual elements of the board quite busy. I had been using Book Antiqua (MS version of Palatino, as used in the logo) but the serif made the board even busier and I was crying out for something geometic and smooth. I found the board was transformed by using Techna Sans. (fontsarena.com/techna-sans-by-carl-enlund). I think all together adding the stop motion elements ties the branding of the Contest to the content of the show a little better.
TRANSFER NEWS (source: Wiki)
IN: 7! All the Kvalifikacija za Millstreet losers, plus new EBU members, Poland and Lithuania. The Soviet Union had attempted to enter the contest in 1980s, to show off about Gorbachev’s reforms, but 2 years after it’s dissolution, Russia would join…not as an ‘evil empire’, but as a nascent, and somewhat chaotic, democracy.
RELEGATED IN 93: Some big hitters in Denmark, Israel and Belgium, although Belgium probably saw it coming…ditto for Turkey. New boys Slovenia went straight back down. As Italy decided they weren’t interested in 94, Cyprus got a reprieve! Luxembourg, as discussed, were relegated, but left the Contest too.
INTERVAL ACT
Something about dancing in rivers?
CREDITS
A massive ‘Go raibh maith agat’ to Brendan M for helping with the Irish! Thank you!
Jugovizija for HQ ORF transmission, shame it’s closed!
Nicolas Baus for Wogan
Flags: Hopnguyen Mr on IconFinder (Cyprus altered), Bosnia: Wikipedia.
Satellite: flaticon.com
All Copyright goes to BBC for Wogan, and to RTÉ.
00:00 Intro
05:20 Song super-cut
32:55 Interval act
38:52 Voting intro
40:11 The reorder board 94
1:26:31 Recap & reprise 
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I love that you used the Irish language for each country as they were awarded points. Nice touch! :-)
One of the strongest years of Eurovision ever! I love Poland, Russia, Germany, Finland and Hungary. Surprised Ireland won in a landslide honestly.
The language rule should never have been a thing, and I say that as an Irish person.
@@occono3543 No, it should... Ireland should've been forced to sing in Gaelic.
@@artsed08 English is the official language in Ireland lol
A few bits of trivia:
- Michael D. Higgins, seen at 55:12 and mentioned at 55:20, was Minister for Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht at the time. He’s now President of Ireland.
- Sara Tavares, the entrant from Portugal, was one of the interval acts 24 years later in Lisbon.
- The references to NY and Orlando made by Gerry relate to the upcoming World Cup ‘94. Ireland’s first round games were in NY and Orlando.
Somehow I thought that was just because they were famous cities and Orlando connects to the whole "I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!" thing you hear football players say when they win the Super Bowl.
Another bit of trivia:
Gerry Ryan died 16 years later on the day of eurovision 1994 was held. He died of cocaine overdose.
My favorite this year is my homeland, 🇷🇺 Russia! I am very proud of Maria, wonderful performance, the best costume, amazing song! Also love her voice as Russian voice of Anastasia movie.
hello and loads of luck and love from Ireland
I just saw this video of the voting for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, and, in addition to Ireland's hat-trick of wins, seeing that scene when you see and hear the presenter from Bosnia and Herzegovina say ""Bonsoir, Dublin, ici Sarajevo"" and right away the roar of the audience greeting that war-ridden country, especially at this time when almost exactly the same is happening in Ukraine, gives goosebumps and tears to the eyes. Good job upgrading the leaderboard!!! Greetings and blessings from Venezuela!!!
Acabo de ver este video de las votaciones del concurso Eurovisión 1994, y, además del triplete de triunfos de Irlanda, ver esa escena cuando se ve y oye a la presentadora de Bosnia y Herzegovina decir "Hola, Dublin, aquí Sarajevo" y enseguida el rugido del público saludando a ese país asediado por la guerra, especialmente en estos momentos en que pasa casi exactamente igual en Ucrania, pone la piel de gallina y emociona hasta las lágrimas. Excelente trabajo actualizando la tabla de puntos!!!! Saludos y bendiciones desde Venezuela!!!
Thank you Edwin! Yes, certainly a moment to savour and I expect we might see something similar if we can get a link up to Ukraine this year!
I think even more so with the fact that both Bosnia and Croatia debuted only a year earlier, Ukraine debuted in 2003
Also worth noting is that this was the first time that the jury spokespeople were seen on the screen. Meaning that, in addition to receiving the Eurovision feed and relaying, they also had to link up as well to transmit the reading of their votes. Ok, I'm no television engineer, so maybe it wasn't all that complicated after all .... I'm just randomly musing here. 😊
1:16:31 I’m amazed that was Portugal’s only 12 points of the evening. Such an incredible song that should have been up in the Top 3.
Spokespersons of note: Helga Vlahovic (Croatia) who hosted in 1990 [I adore her - one of my favourite presenters ever].
Switzerland: Sandra Simo who sang in 1991
Estonia: Urve Tiidus, Estonian Minister for Culture 2013-2015
No one in England pronounces 'Austria' quite like she does anymore!
@@thereorderboard May she rest in peace
Wow, I've never seen so many duck eggs after 1/5 of the juries voting since...the 2015 contest! Great job once again, and for achieving such a beautiful oil painting/color pencil motif from the logo! The only thing I would have changed was make initial font blue then turn to black when a country finished voting, because the black pops out more and muddles the countries that already voted. Or you could have flipped the colors of the rows to mostly blue and white and make the color of the points black. I'm really just nitpicking, but seriously great job.
Oh man, if you manage to do the same thing as what NRK did in 1996 AND reorder the scoreboard, you will be regarded as a god among Eurovision fans!
I also agree with @Steven Murphy and see if you can make a tutorial, or link us to any videos you recommend. Thanks and awesome job once again!
Thanks for commenting! I totally agree about the blue/black - sort of spotted it on the watch back once it had gone through the edit. I'm tend to emphasise the countries that have voted, but you could go the other way and I think this might be what the (unintended) consequence of the colour change is. Am very close to instating a 'progress' bar!
To think 166points by Poland any other year would’ve won really but is so dwarfed by 60pts in an otherwise very strong year!
Flippin’ ‘eck. This scoreboard is *GOOD*!
Thank Rene!
Another excellent work! And yes, a few years ago I saw a Riverdance show at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and there were still people talking about the interval act at Eurovision 1994, something like 20 years after that. That was not just an interval act, it was truly an epiphany for the whole nation.
God Bless Jerry Ryan. He loved Eurovision and made a balls up of his presentation but stuck to it. RIP Jerry.
Finally flag of my country! Thank you so much for these videos. I wish I would make as wonderful scoreboards as yours!
Another magnificent scoreboard, really Im very impress every time that you do these. Congratulations because you are doing a really great job and we thank you a lot
Thanks for watching Rubén and thanks for taking the time to comment. I'm really enjoying making them so I'm glad you're enjoying them too!
What an exciting time for Eurovision and Europe in general, rewatching these really shows that! Maybe it says something about my emotional state rn but I shed a tear for Riverdance, what a fucking introduction that was to the world. And the Bosnia & Herzegovina applause seemed to get the presenter quite emotional! 🌈
As Terry mentions, it’s April 30th. The contest hasn’t been held this early since.
Hungry were winning by a landslide and then somehow just fell behind. Madness. Imagine Hungary winning in 1994, would have been mental. You can see green room hostess pouring Hungary champagne when they recieved their 3rd 12 points from Ireland. Everyone thought Hungary would win by a landslide.
Watch the 1980 voting
You prolly dont care but if you're stoned like me atm then you can watch all of the latest movies and series on instaflixxer. Been binge watching with my girlfriend lately xD
@Romeo Zain yea, I have been watching on instaflixxer for months myself :D
Same with Poland, imagine Poland winning in 1994, that would've been mental
Two points. First of all - how brilliant a video, again, you've really impressed me with the way you create these videos, and the scoreboards are superbly done.
Secondly, to repeat an earlier comment - the way you animate the videos really do highlight the peculiar nature of the Maltese jury. Now either they were made entirely of fans of East European pop OR something very odd was going on. We'll never know...but this animated evidence provides more reason to stroke our chins!
Well done again. I love your work, really do.
Thanks Liam, kind words keep me going! Glad you're enjoying the channel - and yea, the board uncovers all!!
They just get better and better...The scoreboard is a triumph and you captured the style and theme perfectly. The logo with its 3 towered castle and water theme is actually based on the coat of arms of Dublin City and the whole contest was a homage and love letter to the culture, heritage and diversity of the Capital. The River Liffey, which runs through the city was the biggest inspiration...the logo, opening titles, the stage floor, interval act and scoreboard all feature some reference to water, alluding to the Liffey. It was clever design and in your reorder you captured Dublin 94 perfectly and more 👍🏻
On another note, its 10 years now since Gerry Ryan tragically died
Tragic for his family yes but easily preventable. It was no secret he did a lot of cocaine, drank a lot and ate a lot (the last two causing him to become very overweight.) All things that could easily have been managed- he had plenty resources around him that could have helped him.
Thanks for this amazing feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for adding some context to the logo...I think I knew it was water but hadn't specifically thought about the Liffey. I also spent more time than I thought this week looking up Gerry Ryan...such a shame. I'm sure it says on his wiki that he was put forward to co-host with Fionnuala Sweeney in 93. I got the impression neither Cynthia or Fionnuala needed him, but he did add to the show.
thereorderboard : Eurovision yes, you’re right. Cynthia (who is no longer in entertainment) said after he died that had he not been there in ‘94 it would have been a very serious presentation. He definitely added some joviality to the show, but really shouldn’t have been there for the voting. Though back then it wasn’t a thing to have a dedicated green room reporter so not sure what they could have done with him.
@@mrjdsworld80 Really good point. He did make it fun too, so I agree with Cynthia!
thereorderboard : Eurovision I personally would have had Cynthia host alone in 1994. While Gerry did add to the show, it was a little too much on the irritating side for me. It seems to me that he does try to hog the limelight at times, though it was clear that Cynthia was doing much the heavy lifting. Though I completely see what Gerry did add.
Similarly, as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t think Pat Kenny should have hosted in 1988 - Michelle Rocca would have been fine on her own. Pat Kenny came off as rather wooden and stilted while Michelle came off as fun and enthusiastic. In 1988, Pat succeeds in hogging the limelight, and hence doesn’t really give Michelle an opportunity to shine.
Ah! You cut Riverdance! That’s a disservice to the one thing that helped defined the ESC for that decade!
I have to say , the brittish comentary is simply brilliant.
Always is.
Courtesy of Sir Terry Wogan, God rest his soul.
Just to post an update...usually at this time I'd have most of 95's graphics complete. Unfortunately 'real life' work has taken over somewhat this weekend (I've got one evening and that's it!) so 95 will be somewhat delayed. I'm busy working on a project that completes in early November and then I have some leave, so after that I should make some progress! Thanks as ever for commenting and watching - I think there's a really rich account of each show being written below the videos now! We'll get 96 shortly! I know some of you are waiting for that one!
Is there a case for the scoreboard 1980, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1992 to be in English?
According to an interview he gave in the run up to the following year's contest, Gerry Ryan revealed that his earpiece had broken down at the start of the 1994 voting, meaning he couldn't take direction from the gallery. This explains why at several points during the voting Cynthia has to remind him who the next jury is.
From 1994 we have lost:
Gerry Ryan - Presenter
Józef Cuban - Slovakia
Jan Werner Danielson - Norway
Silvi Vrait - Estonia
Juraj Cerny - Slovakia
Chris Scicluna - Malta
And Sara Tavares from Portugal
Another fantastic job! I love this voting sequence for the same reason I love the ones in 1997 or 2009 - I love a good nail biter, but sometimes it’s equally fun to watch a country sweep the board (and very deservedly so in all three cases).
Stray trivia tidbits off the top of my head:
- Malta, the Robin Hood of Eurovision, strike again, robbing Ireland and Poland of the upper-tier scores pretty much everyone else was giving them and spreading the love to the likes of Slovakia and Croatia. Third year in a row Malta’s HoD was accused of trading votes, as alleged by Iceland’s Sigga in an interview afterwards (reportedly, just as he did to Turkey’s conductor in ‘92 and Luxembourg’s in ‘93, he ambled on over to ask if the Icelanders wanted to trade points, no strings attached. They, of course, said no, but unlike the other two, I guess he couldn’t be arsed to give points out of the goodness of his heart anyway). Some of Malta’s high marks were indeed reciprocated by those they benefited, but Lithuania’s 8 points was apparently not enough to even make them vote for it. Speaking of...
- When people think of “nul points” songs, I think the idea is that they all are spectacular flame-outs of the “Mil etter mil” or “Opera” variety; manic, unhinged, flop-sweaty disasters. But for my money, “Lopšine mylimai” is the ultimate nul-pointer in that it exemplifies what the vast majority of them actually are: not awful, but aggressively forgettable. Poland made a pretty spectacular first impression without going crazy on the staging, but they compensated with an engaged and powerful performance. Ovidijus looks like his own song is putting him to sleep. We’re a long way from the Roop...
- Poland got into hot water during rehearsals when Edyta Gorniak sang half the song in English, violating the rules of the time. Clearly didn’t bother that many delegations, but if you look at the kerfuffle with them this year and Norway’s mostly-instrumental the next, it becomes clear that there’s a certain Nordic country that’s a real stickler for the rules.
- For some reason, both Ireland’s Pat Kenny and the UK’s Terry Wogan introduce Noel Kelehan as the conductor of the Irish entry, even though - ironically enough - it was the one song the orchestra didn’t feature on. It’s still awesome, a very deserved winner.
- Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger are the eternal enigma of Eurovision, in that their best songs are as good as their worst songs are awful. How can the same duo be responsible for both evergreens like “Ein bißchen Frieden” and “Dschinghis Khan” also consider songs like “Children, Kinder, Enfants” or “Chain of Lights” worthy of Eurovision? We may forever wonder, but for my money, “Wir geben ‘ne Party” is their last real triumph, and the most successful true-to-form Eurovision song of the year.
And let’s be clear: all three accusers, independently of each other, mentioned a short guy with a mustache. There’s no way they’re making it up.
And here I thought the Maltese jury had unique taste haha. Nah I knew something was fishy.
Lithuania should have got some points but then again getting 0 points instead of one or two means you will forever be remembered (case in point, everyone remembers Czech Republic 2009, but not Belgium 2009.)
Euro- -Towelie I can see that. I guess the question is, would you vote for it over any other entry that year? I don’t know if I’d say so (unless we were talking about Malta or maybe Croatia)
If I recall correctly, Pat Kenny said as the Irish postcard ended “Noel Kelehan conducts...but not us.”
MrJdsworld I don’t know. In the video I saw, as the song starts he goes “And of course, Noel Kelehan is conducting their orchestra, but he doesn’t have much to do.”
Great winner!!!!! My beloved Ireland. Fantastic graphics with the scoreboard BTW... I really enjoyed watching the voting and remembering the good days of ireland in eurovision.
Dreadful winner.
A few things I wanted to mention that I couldn't fit into the description:
- The video for this was found on the now closed Jugovizija channel, but way after that (when the edit was done) I found some lovely upscaled HD versions of the full show. Apologies for not spotting those...I do have a good look but they didn't come up in my search at the time.
- The less we say about Malta's jury vote and also Poland forgetting the language rule for the jury rehearsal the better lol...only joking. Poland was a great entry, just wonder if it would have done worse had both performances been in Polish. Also, I reckon we were on track for a record number of 'nul points' this year, had Malta not voted!
- Now Gerry Ryan's 'it's still technically between Ireland and Poland' couldn't possibly be worse timed, as the reorder board had just worked out we'd passed the point where Ireland couldn't be caught (flashing name)...however to be fair to Gerry (who's far from my favourite presenter btw), it was actually that the board had worked out the winner based on a possible tie break!...i.e., had Poland received 12's from all the remaining juries and Ireland no further points at all, there would have been a tie...but the countback already had Ireland ahead on 12s (and 10s, 8s, 7s etc...) awarded so there was no going back...I expect the producers and the software wouldn't have worked that out at the time. Of course, Ireland being awarded 1 single point would have tipped it over, and in the end they did slightly more than that!
- Also, perfectly timed credit roll with the final performance!
- Will get back to some of your comments on other videos soon, drowning in real-life work at the mo!
Ah heck, didn’t see you addressed Malta and Poland here.
Also, didn’t know Jugovizija got shut down. Pity - lots of reposts, but some of it was actually cool rare content
Also, astonishingly enough, none of the countries Malta voted for only scored with them. They were aided and abetted by fellow bizarre voter Greece (didn’t even vote for Ireland or Poland), who awarded Estonia their only points, and mostly-sane voter Austria (not usually one to rock the boat, although they awarded no points to the following year’s champion), who awarded the Netherlands their only points.
SuperJNG18 I *really* like the Dutch entry, it should have done *much* better (just check my top 10!)
SuperJNG18 Also, in the 1990s (and to an extent, the 1980s too) Austria loved voting for the United Kingdom. It’s a real shame they only gave 1 point to the United Kingdom as - unlike 1990 - we had a really good song.
Well done again, you deserve way more suscribers than you have
Thanks! Yes, currently running at the usual 75% of people who watch aren't subscribed!
"If they would have worshipped the rain, I would have understand". You don't worship what you have plenty off. You worship what you lack off. Like the Sun in Ireland :D
Poor Silvi, Those two points from Greece was really deserved.
Once again an absolutely amazing job done here with the graphics. I really like how you “transferred” the receiving points country popping effect from the 1993 ribbons to what we’ve got here and I really love the great job you did with the paint effect on the flags during the recap. Do you still take your flags from the same source as you did for the 80’s contest?
No I use the link in the 'credits' section. The source for the 80s contest did lots of work converting flags to squares and circles but then the rectangle ones were all correctly shaped (Swiss was square, Belgium is almost square) so I had trouble finding a 'standardised 3:2' collection!. Here, I've added an effect over the normal images and animated it through.
Malta’s jury didn’t turn up for work and at the last minute picked lots at random to decide the point allocation
Either that or they cheated.
Their votes were bought and paid for
1:39 Terry: “if the unthinkable happens and [Frances Ruffelle] doesn’t get the douze points from everyone”
She couldn’t even get 10 from any one! Which is a real shame, as I really think this might be our best ever entry.
Totally. Bizarre that a masterpiece like Lonely Symphony can come tenth, and that boring dirge can win so easily. By this time televoting really should've been up and running.
@@artsed08 I can accept Ireland winning… just. If you want my definite ranking of 90s Irish winners, I’d say its 93 > 94 > 96 > 92. What makes me far angrier is how the poorly performed, lazily written, cliche ridden Maltese entry snuck into the top 5!
I had laughed roughly to see how Maltese jury tried to generously help every country who had no points from countries above to have some of minor points
This was by the way the first year with video calls instead of often not really understandable telephone calls.
So I need to have a bit of a rant about 94. I am Irish. When Ireland won this year I was furious as I did not think it deserved to win and I thought we were only winning because the Eurovision delegations liked a good Irish hooly. I have, however, warmed to the song in recent years and I now see it as a deserving winner but I still think there were better songs that year and Ireland definitely should not have won by such a big margin.
Thank you Reorder Board for another lovely production and again "tá fáilte romhat" with the Irish (not "Gaelic" - whatever that is). Very nice transfers to the leaderboards I must say.
Anyway, here are my points for 94 (again, in the national language of the host country):
An tSlóvaic- pointe amhain
An Ísiltír- dhá phointe
[did NOT deserve to be third last]
An Íoslainn - trí phointe
An Eastóin - ceithre phointe
[did NOT deserve to be second last]
An Rúis - cuig phointe
An Iorua - sé phointe
An Phortaingéil - seacht bpointe
An Ungáir - ocht bpointe
An Chipir - deich bpointe
agus ar deireadh...
AN PHOLAINN - DHÁ PHOINTE DHÉAG
Which country is Iorua?
D'oh! It's because you corrected me whilst I was editing in RUclips before and copied and pasted from somewhere else...already corrected!
@@SuperJNG18 Norway
Brendan M Gotcha. Most of these kinda sound like the English names but that one threw me
@@SuperJNG18 yeah there are a few quirky ones - not least An Eilvéis (Switzerland), which comes from Helvetia (Latin for Switzerland) but I used to think looked like Elvis.
the irish crowd goes nuts :D
This is also apparently the only time Hungary have ever voted for the Bosnian entry. Not out of any beef or anything. They just never have voted for them again for some reason.
Top statto knowledge there!
My top 5 in 1994:
1. Slovakia
2. Switzerland
3. Lithuania
4. Romania
5. Sweden
You aren’t Maltese by any chance, are you?
SuperJNG18 hehehe. Being part-Slovak, I salute the 1st place to Slovakia!
Rene I have a lot of good friends from Slovakia actually. I like this song, but I’m positive if they held on to their KZM song from the year before for another year, they wouldn’t have been relegated
SuperJNG18 Yes, certainly. I think the KZM jurors didn’t do a great job anyway. The three I’d have sent forward from KZM to Millstreet are Croatia, Estonia and Slovakia.
Rene What sucks is I think Bosnia was the best of the bunch and an incredible debut but all three of those deserved to compete as well
23:26 Nekonečná Pieseň , our debut 🇸🇰
Cities where the points were awarded from this year (all juries used English unless otherwise stated)
Sweden: Stockholm
Finland: Helsinki
Ireland: Dublin
Cyprus: Nicosia
Iceland: Reykjavík
United Kingdom: London
Croatia: Zagreb
Portugal: Lisbon
Switzerland: Zürich
Estonia: Tallinn
Romania: Bucharest
Malta: Attard
Netherlands: Hilversum
Germany: Dresden
Slovakia: Bratislava
Lithuania: Vilnius
Norway: Oslo
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Sarajevo (French)
Greece: Athens
Austria: Vienna
Spain: Madrid (French)
Hungary: Budapest
Russia: Moscow
Poland: Warsaw
France: Paris (French)
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú dealt with the Swedish, Irish, Icelandic, Croatian, Swiss, Romanian, Dutch, Slovak, Norwegian, Bosnian, Spanish, Russian and French juries. Gerry Ryan dealt with the Finnish, Cypriot, UK, Portuguese, Estonian, Maltese, German, Lithuanian, Greek, Austrian, Hungarian and Polish juries.
The best year for Poland
its a beautiful job you did, the scoreboard is very nice. Just a shame 94/95 were not great.
Adrian S Yeah, not a particular fan of 1994. I thought the lineups were far better in 1993 and 1995.
Can everyone tell me why there is often a very silent crowd when Germany got points ? Did the girls did bad things ? I want to understand 🤔
Could you possibly do a tutorial on how to make a scoreboard?
I'm thinking about how I'd put it together!
30 April 1994 [BBC Broadcast]
I was disappointed at the time that RTÉ just re-used the ‘93 scoreboard. But good that at least they added voting progress and the leader remained highlighted after the scoreboard reset between juries. Still no points awarded shown though.
Which they did for the 1995 and 1997 contest too
Yes, thanks for pointing that out, didn't have much room for a review of what RTÉ did in 94 in the description!
Apparently they used the same freaking board for 94, 95 and 97 contests with just some little changes in fonts, backgrounds and colors.
While not being my favourite, the United Kingdom should have done better than 10th! A nice, experimental, modern sound and a good vocal from Frances. It definitely suffered from being in a long line of solemn ballads, coupled with the Maltese (and probably also Greek) juries cheating - just ask Sigga!
I agree. Malta finishing fifth baffles me. And hey, you saw the Just Iceland video too!
I remember ESC'94 as a very boring and mental torturing year. Only Portugal, UK, Russia and Poland made my day. And Germany with: Donna, Kelly and Brenda (as I called chicks from Mekado).
The thing is with 1994 is that there were too many ballads!! Though the Netherlands and Slovakia were well and truly screwed by their running order -two good songs either side of the more memorable German song.
There have been many disasters in Europe in the last 30 years. Gerry Ryan’s French was the worst of them all.
I know people got sick of us hosting but nobody in the world watches anything RTÉ makes anymore, not outside of Ireland and barely within it. Like there's The Late Late Toy Show, sometimes the non-toy show and some mediocre ratings for stuff like Kin. And here we hosted the biggest non-sporting live show in the world 4 times in the 90's. What a symbol of their decline.
I always felt sorry for Christian Clausen. He never got to go anywhere but Ireland.
Excellent job. Particularly on the in-vision spokespersons. I always felt RTÉ wasted a great chance to do a full re-design of the scoreboard. What RTÉ did in ‘94 felt like too much of a cheap and easy fix. I really hated the angle of the scoreboard. Which is why I find the ‘95 solution a bit better. But neither is ideal.
And very clever how you didn’t do the split screen with Sandra Simo, it’s exactly what happened on the night.
My former office appears at 1:03 and 1:10!
Would you know why they didn't do the split screen with Sandra Simo?
Rene tech problem I imagine, or the fact she very quickly launches into her first points. She doesn’t even say “Zürich calling” as she’s straight into it.
MrJdsworld Also, wasn’t this the first time the Swiss spokesperson spoke in English as opposed to French?
Rene I think so. Michel Stocker read their votes for years. Now it seems their spokesperson speaks French if their entry comes from the French side, and English if it comes from the German or Italian side
MrJdsworld Yes - though with the exception of 2002 (entry in French, votes in English).
Something was really odd about that Maltese vote...
*and* the Greek vote ! I have ever-so-slight suspicions about the Slovak vote too...
@@JeSuisRene If I had to guess who *might* have been feeling buddy-buddy at the time, looking over the next few years' worth of votes I'd guess Malta, Slovakia, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Turkey, and maybe Bosnia and Romania. Lots of overlap when you look at those countries specifically and how they voted each year. There's a similar group nowadays (Greece, Cyprus, Montenegro, Russia, Azerbaijan, and occasionally eyebrow-raisers from Albania, San Marino, and Malta). I don't like believing there's any kind of giant conspiracy, and maybe it's all a coincidence, and I don't think every single jury is biased, but I have my suspicions.
Slovakia finally got 12 POINTS
What happened to the jugovizija channel
It was closed, we think for copyright infringements.
Cynthia was actually the hot favourite to present the show in ‘93. Fionnuala was a bit of a surprise choice if I recall correctly. But what’s for you won’t go by you, and Cynthia was lucky enough to get her chance the following year.
I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but I thought Gerry Ryan was a poor presenter, especially during the voting. His French was terrible. Cynthia would have been fine alone.
I thought Fionnuala did a very good job in 1993, didn't she move over to CNN News a few months after the show? I agree with your comments regarding Cynthia though, RTÉ really should have let her host alone. When we disregard Jerusalem 1999, Gerry Ryan might be one of my least favourite hosts of the 1990s -- at least Toto Cutugno was entertaining! I do share a similar feeling with Pat Kenny though, I firmly believe that they should have let Michelle Rocca host alone in 1988, I find both Gerry and Pat overbearing and not letting their copresenter to have a chance to shine.
Rene Fionnuala went to have a great career with CNN. She left a few years ago and is now back in Ireland I think.
I thought Pat was far better than Michelle! Plus Ryanair sponsored the 1988 contest and she was at the time the fiancée of the founder’s son. It’s always make me wonder, especially since there were more talented women at RTÉ who could have co-hosted with Pat.
MrJdsworld Personally, I thought that Pat was too pushy and overbearing and didn’t really give Michelle a chance to shine (exemplified by how it was always Pat to call up the top 5 / leaderboard). Where we do see Michelle, I thought she was very at ease and enthusiastic, which I loved to see. I also thought the segment where Michelle spoke in Italian was charming!
@@JeSuisRene I totally agree with you about Pat. For those outside of Ireland, Pat Kenny is an accomplished current affairs presenter (albeit one who leans heavily in favour of the establishment) but came across as wooden when he presented light entertainment. In the ESC 88, I think he was quite condescending and schoolteacher-ish towards Michelle who was clearly fluent in French (and Italian, her grandfather's language and she studied both in college) and who was a more charming albeit presenter. Conversely, I feel Gerry was overbearing in an immature way (note when Cynthia has to remind him its the German jury's turn to vote).
Brendan M the trend that I’ve noticed is that whenever Ireland hosts the contest, the female presenters are always excellent. It’s just the male presenters - Pat was too patronising, Gerry was too immature (an observation I completely agree with you on) and Ronan who, let’s face it, did sod all!
Why the last places are surrounded in red?
In danger of relegation
@@kaitlinbilous4605 thanks
What did the red highlighted do?
Those got relegated from taking part in the 1995 contest.
At the time, because of the breakup of Yugoslavia (and also to an extent, the fall of the USSR), several countries had begun to enter the contest, some that didn't make their debuts until sometime in the '90s, which led to some changes in who got to compete in the contest. Of course, it ended up changing a few more times by the 2000s.
A partir de la votación de Croacia, Irlanda comenzó a despegar.
You forgot Toto train crash of a presentation for Italy
My top 5:
1-Portugal
2-Ireland
3-Hungary
4-Poland
5-Norway.
Kisses from Spain❤
One final comment on this: it’s interesting how the profile of the spokesperson has changed in the 25 years of being in-vision. In the early days, it’s very much the elder statesman (or woman) of each country’s national broadcaster, who probably were also the phone spokespersons, giving their votes in a very business like manner. Now we have young idiots doing “zany” routines, desperately trying to get their seconds of fame.
It was much better back then. I know the Spanish spokesperson also did the votes 1991-1993, Austria's spokesperson also did the phone votes a number of times. Not forgetting Colin Berry and Eileen Dunne.
Rene don’t forget Helga! I’m pretty sure the same lady did the German votes in 1992 and 1993 as well. And Greece, Cyprus and Finland also had the same spokesperson as in 1992 and 1993
MrJdsworld Yes, Helga did the Yugoslav votes in 1974 and 1981 and let’s not forget her marvellous hosting in 1990. The German lady did the votes in 1992 and 1993. The Finnish spokesperson gave the results a number of times prior to this, the Cypriot spokesperson gave the points consistently from their debut in 1981 (this would be her last time), and the Greek spokesperson gave the results from 1988 to 1995 [all times in English, apart from 1991 when she decided to give the points in French].
@@JeSuisRene I like the Norwegian spokesperson who spent years drawing it out as much as possible ("Sweden....fiiiiive. Points." This or '95 I think was his last time giving the votes). All-timer for me is Ofer Nachshon from Israel, a perfect balance of charm and dignity. Plus the obligatory sentence in the host country's language every year.
SuperJNG18 Yes, the Norwegian spokesperson cracks me up every time - 1995 was his last time. My personal favourite (apologies for the bias) is probably Colin Berry - the perfect mix of charm and calm, and he seems like a genuinely warm person.
If sung in English, Hungary may have won. A much better song than the Irish one.
46:40 How to piss off your neighbors in two easy steps
SuperJNG18 At least they got points. Iceland gave nothing to their distant neighbours in the United Kingdom...
Rene As far as Terry’s concerned, every country in the West is a neighbor with each other, and every country east of Austria is as well.
SuperJNG18 Yes. He often conflated the Baltic countries with the Balkan nations.
Rene Some of them are, like, borderline close (like that weird period where North Macedonia and Romania voted for each other a lot...I mean, they’re both in the Balkans, but them voting for each other isn’t really a given), but some are so far off it’s unbelievable (Croatia and Russia?
Moldova and Latvia?)
Do Eurovision 1995.
Can anyone pronounce co-presenter Cynthia’s last name?
Ní Mhurchú - it's pronounced Nee-Vurkoo
Portugal should’ve won this year
Dincolo de nori 🇷🇴
But wasn't highest scoring eurovision debut "Refrain" from Lys Assia?
There was no points system in the first Eurovision! I checked every debut since 1957 to make sure that's a correct fact...hopefully I haven't missed anything!
@@thereorderboard It doesn't have anything to do with point systems, that song literally won so it definetly did score better than Poland who finished 2nd
@@zalkkareita9017 Oh right. Thanks for explaining.
@@zalkkareita9017 No, as Refrain was Switzerland’s SECOND entry of the evening - remember 1956 had two entries for each country.
Technically Serbia won on its first time in Eurovision. But it had participated as both Yugoslavia and as Serbia-Montenegro before.
🇦🇱 MANJOLA NALLBANI - KUR E HUMBA NJË DASHURI
United States dream??? That's IRISH DREAM!!!
🇨🇮
This is the flag of Côte d’Ivoire, not Ireland.
Weren’t they the first to get 200 and over points
yes!
I’m not a particular fan of 1994 (despite the amazing production, even if they could have shown some shots of the orchestra - they were able to do it in 1993 and 1995, so why not now?!). The contest was certainly overly ballad heavy. Some entries were certainly underrated (you’ll see from my list below) and some were overrated, to a massive extent - 🇲🇹 and 🇵🇹 in my opinion, though 🇫🇷 and 🇭🇺 will fall into that list too, depending on my mood. 🇮🇪 didn’t deserve such a resounding victory - there certainly were better songs, and the songs that I thought were good were *great*. Also, while it was confirmed that the 🇲🇹 jury cheated, there’s also a more-than-slight change that the 🇬🇷 jury were at it too.
At least Riverdance was there, it was certainly the best thing about 1994! Sorry about my rant, here are my points for 1994:
1p 🇷🇺 Russia
2p 🇮🇪 Ireland
3p 🇨🇾 Cyprus
4p 🇮🇸 Iceland
5p 🇳🇴 Norway
6p 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
7p 🇦🇹 Austria
8p 🇳🇱 Netherlands
10p 🇵🇱 Poland
12p 🇩🇪 Germany
My top ten would be something like this:
1p 🇳🇴 Norway
2p 🇵🇹 Portugal
3p 🇮🇸 Iceland
4p 🇫🇷 France
5p 🇷🇺 Russia
6p 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
7p 🇵🇱 Poland
8p 🇩🇪 Germany
10p 🇭🇺 Hungary
12p 🇮🇪 Ireland
I won't go for a full 12 points list, but I always find it interesting what gets stuck in my head...during the edit I go through each of the songs about 5 or 6 times before publishing and the worm gets planted. Usually by the Tuesday, in the shower, I find myself humming one or two of the entries....this year it was Iceland and Portugal! Maybe they would have got my votes!
Germany were robbed
The least deserved irish win, I think. I mean, come on! This was such a good year and I just don't get it.
Still watching but Terry really hyped Musical Legend Frances up but that song was a let down for me! Modern sound but nothing special really...
God he was bitter about not ending second!
@@luukjoling1 And rightly so, was he bitter about only finishing 10th!
Even I, who don't speak French, understand that his French is absolutely terrible. Awkward.
Poland should Win not Ireland because they won lot of times
the only winner is malte
So arrogant how Terry expects UK to do so well every year
But we had a good song and were second favourite in the betting. So yes, this year particularly, Terry Wogan has every right to hope the UK do well this year and has every right to be disappointed that the UK only get 10th place. Bare in mind, he was not particularly hopeful for the UK in either 1993 or 1995.
Yeah i like it, but its every year he moans when a country doesn’t give the UK a point and hes always surprised when Eastern European countries get points.
He worked on the BBC, of coarse he had to play up the British entry and don't forget where his audience was from. I reckon he was pretty happy Ireland won but he couldn't do a song and dance about it.
@@scottN1980 But this is the one year I feel that he is doing a song and dance about it - he was practically chanting with the crowd (besides, the British audience would have forgiven him on this occasion given that Terry is Irish and the UK didn’t do that well, ie not 2nd)! Fast forward to 1996, and Terry Wogan does seem slightly annoyed that Ireland have won it, again.
@@JeSuisRene we were all sick of winning by then, all we wanted by that stage was a few gold medles in the Olympics, or maybe for the government to pay to fill a few potholes instead of staging another bloody Eurovision.
Ireland dont deserve win
Couldn't agree more.
94’ was a very boring year 😬
Ireland was terribly overrated over the years and did not deserve to win many times in my opinion
The weakest competitions of the 1990s, and that's including 1991 and 1999.
One of the more interesting historically though. The rush of eastern European countries, the satellite feeds for the spokespeople, the genesis of Riverdance.
@@occono3543Indeed