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Available in 64 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-64" aria-hidden="true" > 64 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroviisuh-l%C3%A1vlumki%C5%A1to_1956" title="Euroviisuh-lávlumkišto 1956 – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="Euroviisuh-lávlumkišto 1956" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Anarâškielâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9_1956" title="مسابقة الأغنية الأوروبية 1956 – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مسابقة الأغنية الأوروبية 1956" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Avroviziya_Mahn%C4%B1_M%C3%BCsabiq%C9%99si" title="1956 Avroviziya Mahnı Müsabiqəsi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="1956 Avroviziya Mahnı Müsabiqəsi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%95%D1%9E%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5_1956" title="Конкурс песні Еўрабачанне 1956 – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Конкурс песні Еўрабачанне 1956" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%AD%D1%9E%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5-1956" title="Конкурс песьні Эўрабачаньне-1956 – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Конкурс песьні Эўрабачаньне-1956" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8F_1956" title="Евровизия 1956 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Евровизия 1956" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosong_1956." title="Eurosong 1956. – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Eurosong 1956." data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_de_la_Can%C3%A7%C3%B3_d%27Eurovisi%C3%B3_1956" title="Festival de la Cançó d'Eurovisió 1956 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Festival de la Cançó d'Eurovisió 1956" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_l%C3%A1vllagilvvohallan_1956" title="Eurovision lávllagilvvohallan 1956 – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Eurovision lávllagilvvohallan 1956" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Davvisámegiella</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956._aasta_Eurovisiooni_lauluv%C3%B5istlus" title="1956. aasta Eurovisiooni lauluvõistlus – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="1956. aasta Eurovisiooni lauluvõistlus" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%A4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%8D_Eurovision_1956" title="Διαγωνισμός Τραγουδιού Eurovision 1956 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Διαγωνισμός Τραγουδιού Eurovision 1956" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_de_la_Canci%C3%B3n_de_Eurovisi%C3%B3n_1956" title="Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 1956 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 1956" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C5%ADrovido-Kantokonkurso_1956" title="Eŭrovido-Kantokonkurso 1956 – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Eŭrovido-Kantokonkurso 1956" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956ko_Eurovision_Abesti_Lehiaketa" title="1956ko Eurovision Abesti Lehiaketa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="1956ko Eurovision Abesti Lehiaketa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%86_%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B5%DB%B6" title="مسابقه آواز یوروویژن ۱۹۵۶ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مسابقه آواز یوروویژن ۱۹۵۶" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concours_Eurovision_de_la_chanson_1956" title="Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1956 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1956" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com%C3%B3rtas_Amhr%C3%A1na%C3%ADochta_na_hEoraif%C3%ADse_1956" title="Comórtas Amhránaíochta na hEoraifíse 1956 – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Comórtas Amhránaíochta na hEoraifíse 1956" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_de_Eurovisi%C3%B3n_1956" title="Festival de Eurovisión 1956 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Festival de Eurovisión 1956" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%A0%EB%A1%9C%EB%B9%84%EC%A0%84_%EC%86%A1_%EC%BD%98%ED%85%8C%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8_1956" title="유로비전 송 콘테스트 1956 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="유로비전 송 콘테스트 1956" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B5%D5%BE%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%AC_1956_%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%AB_%D5%B4%D6%80%D6%81%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B5%D5%A9" title="Եվրատեսիլ 1956 երգի մրցույթ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Եվրատեսիլ 1956 երգի մրցույթ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pjesma_Eurovizije_1956." title="Pjesma Eurovizije 1956. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Pjesma Eurovizije 1956." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontes_Lagu_Eurovision_1956" title="Kontes Lagu Eurovision 1956 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kontes Lagu Eurovision 1956" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6ngvakeppni_evr%C3%B3pskra_sj%C3%B3nvarpsst%C3%B6%C3%B0va_1956" title="Söngvakeppni evrópskra sjónvarpsstöðva 1956 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Söngvakeppni evrópskra sjónvarpsstöðva 1956" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F_1956" title="אירוויזיון 1956 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אירוויזיון 1956" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%98%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A6%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98_1956" title="ევროვიზიის სიმღერის კონკურსი 1956 – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ევროვიზიის სიმღერის კონკურსი 1956" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D3%A9%D1%80%D2%AF%D0%BD%D2%AF%D2%AF_%D1%8B%D1%80_%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%8B_1956" title="Еврокөрүнүү ыр сынагы 1956 – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Еврокөрүнүү ыр сынагы 1956" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956._gada_Eirov%C4%ABzijas_dziesmu_konkurss" title="1956. gada Eirovīzijas dziesmu konkurss – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="1956. gada Eirovīzijas dziesmu konkurss" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovizijos_dain%C5%B3_konkursas_1956" title="Eurovizijos dainų konkursas 1956 – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Eurovizijos dainų konkursas 1956" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956-os_Eurov%C3%ADzi%C3%B3s_Dalfesztiv%C3%A1l" title="1956-os Eurovíziós Dalfesztivál – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="1956-os Eurovíziós Dalfesztivál" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_1956" title="Евровизија 1956 – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Евровизија 1956" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_tal-Eurovision_1956" title="Festival tal-Eurovision 1956 – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Festival tal-Eurovision 1956" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertandingan_Lagu_Eurovision_1956" title="Pertandingan Lagu Eurovision 1956 – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Pertandingan Lagu Eurovision 1956" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festibal_Ourobison_de_la_Can%C3%A7on_1956" title="Festibal Ourobison de la Cançon 1956 – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Festibal Ourobison de la Cançon 1956" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Mirandés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovisiesongfestival_1956" title="Eurovisiesongfestival 1956 – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Eurovisiesongfestival 1956" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9%E3%83%881956" title="ユーロビジョン・ソング・コンテスト1956 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ユーロビジョン・ソング・コンテスト1956" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Eurovision Song Contest 1956" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Eurovision Song 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width:312px"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background:#BFDFFF;">Eurovision Song Contest 1956</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:ESC_1956_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The logo of the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1956" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/ESC_1956_logo.svg/300px-ESC_1956_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/ESC_1956_logo.svg/450px-ESC_1956_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/ESC_1956_logo.svg/600px-ESC_1956_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1163" data-file-height="590" /></a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#BFDFFF;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Final</th><td class="infobox-data">24 May 1956</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#BFDFFF;">Host</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Venue</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Casin%C3%B2_Lugano" title="Casinò Lugano">Teatro Kursaal</a> Lugano, Switzerland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Presenter(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lohengrin_Filipello" title="Lohengrin Filipello">Lohengrin Filipello</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Musical director</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Paggi" title="Fernando Paggi">Fernando Paggi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Franco_Marazzi" title="Franco Marazzi">Franco Marazzi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Executive supervisor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rolf_Liebermann" title="Rolf Liebermann">Rolf Liebermann</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Host broadcaster</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Swiss Broadcasting Corporation">Swiss Broadcasting Corporation</a> (SRG SSR) <a href="/wiki/Radiotelevisione_svizzera" title="Radiotelevisione svizzera">Radio svizzera italiana</a> (RSI)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:50%">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956">eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171784#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" 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.plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest">Belgium</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest">France</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest">Germany</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /> <a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest">Italy</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /> <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest">Luxembourg</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest">Netherlands</a></li><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" />  <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Switzerland</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: #bfdfff"><div style="margin: 0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_song_contest/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Template:Infobox song contest/Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Participation map</a></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><figure class="noresize mw-ext-imagemap-desc-bottom-right" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="A coloured map of the countries of Europe" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/ESC_1956_Map_2.svg/299px-ESC_1956_Map_2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="299" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/ESC_1956_Map_2.svg/449px-ESC_1956_Map_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/ESC_1956_Map_2.svg/598px-ESC_1956_Map_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="540" usemap="#ImageMap_d2bcc0155aa8be22" resource="/wiki/File:ESC_1956_Map_2.svg" /><map name="ImageMap_d2bcc0155aa8be22"><area href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" shape="poly" coords="107,142,108,140,111,139,115,139,118,140,117,141,119,143,120,145,117,146,117,148,115,148,115,145,113,147,113,145,111,142,109,142" alt="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" /><area href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" shape="poly" coords="88,179,91,167,91,163,89,161,87,156,82,153,81,149,86,149,87,151,92,152,92,146,96,148,99,147,103,145,104,141,107,140,111,144,112,145,117,148,121,150,127,152,125,156,123,160,118,166,120,167,122,170,121,173,121,177,119,177,119,183,130,186,131,188,130,192,129,192,128,190,128,188,130,186,119,182,115,182,112,181,109,180,105,182,105,186,102,186,103,182,97,182,97,183,95,183,89,181" alt="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" /><area href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" shape="poly" coords="80,222,86,219,93,217,111,216,121,215,126,217,125,219,125,226,121,232,121,235,123,235,124,237,82,237,80,235,80,233,80,225,79,222" alt="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" /><area 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href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" shape="poly" coords="118,150,117,147,119,146,121,148,120,150" alt="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" /><area href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" shape="poly" coords="117,140,115,138,111,138,114,135,116,131,117,129,122,128,123,130,123,132,122,133,122,134,122,137,119,137,120,139,120,141,120,143,118,143,118,141,115,138" alt="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" /><area href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" shape="poly" coords="121,169,120,166,120,166,117,167,118,165,120,163,121,161,122,159,125,159,127,159,129,159,129,159,128,159,128,164,134,164,134,163,134,163,133,166,131,167,129,167,129,169,127,167,126,166,125,167" alt="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956" /><area 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style="width:50%">Winning song</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" />  <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Switzerland</a> "<a href="/wiki/Refrain_(Lys_Assia_song)" title="Refrain (Lys Assia song)">Refrain</a>"</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa; padding-top: 3px;"><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Eurovision Song Contest">Eurovision Song Contest</a> → <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1957" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1957">1957</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Eurovision Song Contest 1956 was the first edition of the annual <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Eurovision Song Contest">Eurovision Song Contest</a>, organised by the <a href="/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union" title="European Broadcasting Union">European Broadcasting Union</a> (EBU) and host broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Radiotelevisione_svizzera" title="Radiotelevisione svizzera">Radio svizzera italiana</a> (RSI) on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Swiss Broadcasting Corporation">Swiss Broadcasting Corporation</a> (SRG SSR). The contest, originally titled the Gran Premio Eurovisione 1956 della Canzone Europea<a href="#cite_note-Melfest-2">[1]</a> (English: Grand Prix of the Eurovision Song Competition;<a href="#cite_note-Radio_Times-3">[2]</a> <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1956<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a>), was held on 24 May 1956 at the <a href="/wiki/Casin%C3%B2_Lugano" title="Casinò Lugano">Teatro Kursaal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lugano" title="Lugano">Lugano</a>, Switzerland, and hosted by Swiss television presenter <a href="/wiki/Lohengrin_Filipello" title="Lohengrin Filipello">Lohengrin Filipello</a>, which remains the only time that the contest has been hosted by a solo male presenter. Inspired principally by the Italian <a href="/wiki/Sanremo_Music_Festival" title="Sanremo Music Festival">Sanremo Music Festival</a>, held annually since 1951, the concept of a televised European song contest, initially proposed by Italian broadcaster <a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a>, was formulated by an EBU committee led by Swiss broadcaster and executive <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on" title="Marcel Bezençon">Marcel Bezençon</a>. Following approval at the EBU's General Assembly in 1955, the rules and structure of the contest were agreed upon. Several of the rules utilised in this first contest would subsequently be altered for future editions, and it remains the only edition in which each country was represented by two songs, with a voting process which was held in secret and where juries could vote for the entries from their own country. Seven countries participated in the inaugural edition of the contest, and the first winner was the host country <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Switzerland</a>, with the song "<a href="/wiki/Refrain_(Lys_Assia_song)" title="Refrain (Lys Assia song)">Refrain</a>" performed by <a href="/wiki/Lys_Assia" title="Lys Assia">Lys Assia</a>. The result was determined by an assembled jury composed of two jurors from each country, with each juror ranking each song between 1 and 10 points. Only the winning country and song were announced at the conclusion of the event, with the results of the remaining participants unknown. Even though it was broadcast on television and radio via the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_(network)" title="Eurovision (network)">Eurovision network</a> in ten countries, no video footage of the event is known to exist, with the only video available being of the <a href="/wiki/Reprise#Winner_reprise" title="Reprise">reprise performance</a> from an independent archiver; the majority of the broadcast is, however, available in audio. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="History of the Eurovision Song Contest">History of the Eurovision Song Contest</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union" title="European Broadcasting Union">European Broadcasting Union</a> (EBU) was formed in 1950 among 23 organisations with the aim of facilitating creative cooperation and the exchange of television programmes.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-bristol-6">[5]</a> The word "Eurovision" was first used as a telecommunications term in the United Kingdom in 1951, in reference to a programme by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">British Broadcasting Corporation</a> (BBC) being relayed by Dutch television, and was subsequently used as the title for the union's new <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_(network)" title="Eurovision (network)">transmission network</a> upon its creation in 1954.<a href="#cite_note-GoldenJubilee-7">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eurovision_network-8">[7]</a> Following the formation of the EBU, a number of notable events were transmitted through its networks in several European countries, including Belgium, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A series of international exchange programmes were subsequently organised for 1954, with this "European Television Season" relayed live across Europe through the Eurovision network.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-GoldenJubilee-7">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eurovision_network_about-9">[8]</a> Following this series of transmissions, a "Programme Committee" was set up within the EBU to investigate new initiatives for cooperation between broadcasters each year, with <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on" title="Marcel Bezençon">Marcel Bezençon</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Swiss Broadcasting Corporation">Swiss Broadcasting Corporation</a> (SRG SSR) serving as the committee's first president. This committee agreed to study the concept for a new televised European song contest during a meeting in January 1955, a concept initially proposed by the Italian broadcaster <a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> and inspired by the broadcaster's <a href="/wiki/Sanremo_Music_Festival" title="Sanremo Music Festival">Sanremo Music Festival</a>, held annually since 1951.<a href="#cite_note-GoldenJubilee-7">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a> The new European contest was subsequently approved at the EBU's annual General Assembly in October 1955, leading to the creation of the European Grand Prix.<a href="#cite_note-GoldenJubilee-7">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-O'Connor_1956-11">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-12">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Location">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Teatro_Kursaal,_Lugano.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Black and white photograph of the front façade of the Teatro Kursaal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Teatro_Kursaal%2C_Lugano.jpg/220px-Teatro_Kursaal%2C_Lugano.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Teatro_Kursaal%2C_Lugano.jpg/330px-Teatro_Kursaal%2C_Lugano.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Teatro_Kursaal%2C_Lugano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="289" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Casin%C3%B2_Lugano" title="Casinò Lugano">Teatro Kursaal</a>, Lugano – host venue of the 1956 contest</figcaption></figure> The first Eurovision Song Contest took place in <a href="/wiki/Lugano" title="Lugano">Lugano</a>, Switzerland; the country was awarded the contest in October 1955 at the EBU's General Assembly following an offer by the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Swiss Broadcasting Corporation">Swiss Broadcasting Corporation</a> (SRG SSR) to stage the event.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-12">[11]</a> In addition Switzerland made a logical choice from a technical perspective for the hosting of what was an experiment in live, simultaneous, cross-border transmissions, as its geographically central location in Europe facilitated terrestrial broadcasts across the continent, as well as being the host country for the EBU's headquarters.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Venice-13">[12]</a> Taking its inspiration from the Italian <a href="/wiki/Sanremo_Music_Festival" title="Sanremo Music Festival">Sanremo Music Festival</a> and Venice International Song Festival, a similar EBU-organised song contest held in 1955 and broadcast on radio, Lugano in the Italian-speaking <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Ticino" class="mw-redirect" title="Canton of Ticino">canton of Ticino</a> was chosen as the first host city by SRG SSR.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-O'Connor_1956-11">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Venice-13">[12]</a> The selected venue for the contest was the <a href="/wiki/Casin%C3%B2_Lugano" title="Casinò Lugano">Teatro Kursaal</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Casino" title="Casino">casino</a> and former theatre situated on <a href="/wiki/Lake_Lugano" title="Lake Lugano">Lake Lugano</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-decade-14">[13]</a> It had a capacity of 700 seats.<a href="#cite_note-Radiocorriere-15">[14]</a> 400 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Stalls_(theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalls (theatre)">stalls</a> were reserved for invited guests whereas tickets for the balcony were on sale from 17 May 1956 for <a href="/wiki/Swiss_franc" title="Swiss franc">CHF</a> 20.<a href="#cite_note-Radiocorriere-15">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a> The theatre, used for theatrical and musical performances, <a href="/wiki/Ballroom_dance" title="Ballroom dance">ballroom dance</a> and other shows, closed shortly after featuring its last performance in April 1997 before being demolished in 2001 to make room for the extension of the casino.<a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Participating_countries">Participating countries</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Participating countries">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest">List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#BFDFFF;">Eurovision Song Contest 1956 – Participation summaries by country</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Belgium</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">France</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Germany</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" class="mw-redirect" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Italy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Luxembourg</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Netherlands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Switzerland</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Seven countries participated in this first contest – <a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest">Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest">France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest">Luxembourg</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest">Netherlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Switzerland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest">West Germany</a> (identified simply as "Germany" in the contest). <a href="/wiki/Austria_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest">Austria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denmark_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest">Denmark</a> are believed to have also been interested in participating; however, broadcasters from those countries reportedly missed the cut-off point for entry.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Berlingske-20">[19]</a> These two countries, as well as the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest">United Kingdom</a>, would broadcast the contest along with the participating countries, with the United Kingdom's <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> having chosen to not send an entry for this event in favour of organising their own contest, the <a href="/wiki/Festival_of_British_Popular_Songs" class="mw-redirect" title="Festival of British Popular Songs">Festival of British Popular Songs</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> Two of the performers, Switzerland's <a href="/wiki/Lys_Assia" title="Lys Assia">Lys Assia</a> and Luxembourg's <a href="/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Arnaud" title="Michèle Arnaud">Michèle Arnaud</a>, performed both entries for their respective countries.<a href="#cite_note-1956results-22">[21]</a> Assia, as well as the Netherlands' <a href="/wiki/Corry_Brokken" title="Corry Brokken">Corry Brokken</a> and Belgium's <a href="/wiki/Fud_Leclerc" title="Fud Leclerc">Fud Leclerc</a>, would return to compete in the contest in future editions, with Assia and Brokken both returning in <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1957" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1957">1957</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1958" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1958">1958</a> and Leclerc in 1958, <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1960" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1960">1960</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1962" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1962">1962</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a> 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.sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}</style> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sticky-header"> <caption>Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1956<a href="#cite_note-26">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_contest-27">[26]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Country </th> <th scope="col">Broadcaster </th> <th scope="col">Artist </th> <th scope="col">Song </th> <th scope="col">Language </th> <th scope="col">Songwriter(s) </th> <th scope="col">Conductor </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest">Belgium</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/RTBF" title="RTBF">INR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fud_Leclerc" title="Fud Leclerc">Fud Leclerc</a> </td> <td>"Messieurs les noyés de la Seine" </td> <td>French </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Jean Miret</li><li>Robert Montal</li><li>Jack Say</li></ul></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Souris" title="Léo Souris">Léo Souris</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mony Marc </td> <td>"Le Plus Beau Jour de ma vie" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Claude Alix</li><li>David Bée</li></ul></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest">France</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Radiodiffusion-T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Fran%C3%A7aise" title="Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française">RTF</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Math%C3%A9_Alt%C3%A9ry" title="Mathé Altéry">Mathé Altéry</a> </td> <td>"Le Temps perdu" </td> <td>French </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>André Lodge</li><li>Rachèle Thoreau</li></ul></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Franck_Pourcel" title="Franck Pourcel">Franck Pourcel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dany_Dauberson" title="Dany Dauberson">Dany Dauberson</a> </td> <td>"Il est là" </td> <td>French </td> <td>Simone Vallauris </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest">Germany</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nord-_und_Westdeutscher_Rundfunkverband&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (page does not exist)">NWRV</a> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-_und_Westdeutscher_Rundfunkverband" class="extiw" title="de:Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband">de</a>]<a href="#cite_note-29">[b]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Quinn" title="Freddy Quinn">Freddy Quinn</a> </td> <td>"So geht das jede Nacht" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Peter Moesser</li><li><a href="/wiki/Lotar_Olias" title="Lotar Olias">Lotar Olias</a></li></ul></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Paggi" title="Fernando Paggi">Fernando Paggi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Andreas_Schwarz" title="Walter Andreas Schwarz">Walter Andreas Schwarz</a> </td> <td>"Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück"<a href="#cite_note-de-32">[c]</a> </td> <td>German </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Andreas_Schwarz" title="Walter Andreas Schwarz">Walter Andreas Schwarz</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /> <a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest">Italy</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Franca_Raimondi" title="Franca Raimondi">Franca Raimondi</a> </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Aprite_le_finestre" title="Aprite le finestre">Aprite le finestre</a>" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Virgilio Panzuti</li><li>Pino Perotti</li></ul></div> </td> <td rowspan="2">Gian Stellari </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tonina_Torrielli" title="Tonina Torrielli">Tonina Torrielli</a> </td> <td>"Amami se vuoi" </td> <td>Italian </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Vittorio Mascheroni</li><li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Panzeri" title="Mario Panzeri">Mario Panzeri</a></li></ul></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /> <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest">Luxembourg</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/RTL_Group" title="RTL Group">CLT</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Arnaud" title="Michèle Arnaud">Michèle Arnaud</a> </td> <td>"Les Amants de minuit" </td> <td>French </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Pierre Lambry</li><li>Simone Laurencin</li></ul></div> </td> <td rowspan="2">Jacques Lasry </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Ne crois pas" </td> <td>French </td> <td>Christian Guittreau </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest">Netherlands</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Nederlandse_Televisie_Stichting" class="mw-redirect" title="Nederlandse Televisie Stichting">NTS</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Corry_Brokken" title="Corry Brokken">Corry Brokken</a> </td> <td>"Voorgoed voorbij" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> </td> <td>Jelle de Vries </td> <td rowspan="2">Fernando Paggi<a href="#cite_note-34">[d]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jetty_Paerl" title="Jetty Paerl">Jetty Paerl</a> </td> <td>"De vogels van Holland" </td> <td>Dutch </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Cor Lemaire</li><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_M._G._Schmidt" class="mw-redirect" title="Annie M. G. Schmidt">Annie M. G. Schmidt</a></li></ul></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" />  <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Switzerland</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Swiss Broadcasting Corporation">SRG SSR</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Lys_Assia" title="Lys Assia">Lys Assia</a> </td> <td>"Das alte Karussell" </td> <td>German </td> <td>Georg Betz-Stahl </td> <td rowspan="2">Fernando Paggi </td></tr> <tr> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Refrain_(Lys_Assia_song)" title="Refrain (Lys Assia song)">Refrain</a>" </td> <td>French </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gardaz" title="Émile Gardaz">Émile Gardaz</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9o_Voumard" title="Géo Voumard">Géo Voumard</a></li></ul></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production_and_format">Production and format</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Production and format">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Rules_of_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest">Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_(1980).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Black-and-white photograph of Marcel Bezençon in 1980" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_%281980%29.jpg/220px-Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_%281980%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_%281980%29.jpg/330px-Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_%281980%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_%281980%29.jpg/440px-Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_%281980%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1082" data-file-height="1444" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on" title="Marcel Bezençon">Marcel Bezençon</a> (pictured in 1980) was instrumental in the creation of the contest as president of the EBU's Programme Committee.</figcaption></figure> A planning sub-group, headed by Eduard Hass of SRG SSR, was formed following the sign-off on the organisation of the event to build out the <a href="/wiki/Rules_of_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest">rules of the competition</a>. Taking inspiration from the <a href="/wiki/Sanremo_Music_Festival" title="Sanremo Music Festival">Sanremo Music Festival</a> and the Venice International Song Festival as a basis in planning the new contest, the group made several amendments and additions to these rules to suit its international nature.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-decade-14">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-Venice-13">[12]</a> Ideas suggested but ultimately rejected during this planning phase included featuring each song a second time with a piano accompaniment instead of orchestral backing, as well as technical initiatives such as a separate producer from each participating country involved in the contest's organisation. Prize money for the winners was also ruled out at this stage.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-12">[11]</a> The rules of the contest were finalised and distributed to EBU members in early 1956. The rules set out in detail the criteria for the participating songs and performers; production details and requirements; timelines for the submission of materials by the participating broadcasters; the method by which the winning song would be determined; details related to the financing of the event; and the responsibilities which lay with the host broadcaster and the participating broadcasters.<a href="#cite_note-35">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> The inaugural Eurovision Song Contest was produced by the Italian-language radio broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Radiotelevisione_svizzera" title="Radiotelevisione svizzera">Radio svizzera italiana</a> (RSI), in cooperation with the German-language television broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Schweizer_Fernsehen" title="Schweizer Fernsehen">Schweizer Fernsehen</a>, which brought a <a href="/wiki/Production_truck" title="Production truck">television production truck</a> from Zürich to Lugano.<a href="#cite_note-37">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[34]</a> <a href="/wiki/Franco_Marazzi" title="Franco Marazzi">Franco Marazzi</a> served as director of the event on behalf of RSI, with <a href="/wiki/Rolf_Liebermann" title="Rolf Liebermann">Rolf Liebermann</a> overseeing the production and the jury deliberations on behalf of the EBU as its executive supervisor and jury president.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[36]</a> Per the rules of the contest, each participating country, represented by one EBU member organisation, submitted into the contest a maximum of two songs not exceeding three to three-and-a-half minutes in duration, which must have been solely original compositions.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> Each participating organisation had sole discretion on how to select their entries for the contest but were strongly encouraged by the EBU to hold their own national contests to determine their representatives.<a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> Following the performance of all songs, the winner was determined by an assembled jury composed of two individuals from each country, with each individual member rating secretly each song between one and ten points, including those representing their own country, with higher scores given to more appreciated songs.<a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> The jury followed the contest in the <a href="/wiki/Contract_bridge" title="Contract bridge">bridge</a> room in the same venue in Lugano through a small television screen, replicating the conditions as close as possible to how viewers at home would watch the contest.<a href="#cite_note-41">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> The winning song was thus that which gained the highest score from the votes of all jury members.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> In the event of a tie between two or more entries all songs with the highest score would have been declared winners.<a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> In news reports at the time, according to one Dutch juror, the jury members were removed from the jury room once they had cast their votes and were therefore unable to follow the tabulation of the final results.<a href="#cite_note-42">[38]</a> The jury members from Luxembourg were unable to attend the contest in Lugano, and subsequently the EBU allowed two Swiss nationals to vote in their place.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[39]</a> This would remain the only contest in which many of these rules would be utilised, and several changes were made ahead of the 1957 contest. These included restricting each country to only one song, expanding the number of performers allowed to participate for each country, introducing a more visible voting system, and restricting each country from voting for their own entry.<a href="#cite_note-throwback-44">[40]</a> Each song was accompanied by a 24-piece orchestra, with members of the Radiosa Orchestra supplemented by strings of the Italian Swiss Radio Symphony Orchestra, presided over by the contest's musical director, <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Paggi" title="Fernando Paggi">Fernando Paggi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> Each participating country was allowed to supplement the orchestra with their own musical director for the performances of their country, with the host musical director also <a href="/wiki/Conducting" title="Conducting">conducting</a> for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> Participating broadcasters were required to submit to the EBU by 10 May 1956 <a href="/wiki/Sheet_music" title="Sheet music">scores</a> for the participating songs for use by the orchestra, audio recordings for each participating song, and copies of the song lyrics for each song in the original language, as well as translations into French or English to aid the jury members and commentators.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Diamond-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> The confirmed selection of each country's musical director (if separate to that of the host) was required to be communicated between 21 and 24 May.<a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> Rehearsals in the contest venue with the competing artists and the orchestra began on 21 May 1956.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a> According to the rules, the order in which the countries and songs were performed was to be determined artistically by the Swiss broadcasters, with input and support by the musical directors from each country.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> However, a draw determining the order of countries seems to have taken place in <a href="/wiki/Gardone_Riviera" title="Gardone Riviera">Gardone</a> a few days prior to the contest.<a href="#cite_note-46">[e]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contest_overview">Contest overview</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Contest overview">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lys_Assia_(1957).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Black-and-white photograph of Lys Assia in 1957" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Lys_Assia_%281957%29.jpg/200px-Lys_Assia_%281957%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Lys_Assia_%281957%29.jpg/300px-Lys_Assia_%281957%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Lys_Assia_%281957%29.jpg/400px-Lys_Assia_%281957%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="707" data-file-height="942" /></a><figcaption>Switzerland's <a href="/wiki/Lys_Assia" title="Lys Assia">Lys Assia</a> (pictured in 1957) was the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, and would represent her country in the contest again in <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1957" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1957">1957</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1958" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1958">1958</a>.</figcaption></figure> The contest was held on 24 May 1956, beginning at 21:00 (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>) with an approximate duration of 1 hour 40 minutes.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a> The event was hosted in <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> by <a href="/wiki/Lohengrin_Filipello" title="Lohengrin Filipello">Lohengrin Filipello</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a> This remains the only time in which the contest was hosted by a solo male presenter, and one of only two contests not to feature a female presenter, alongside the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2017" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2017">2017 contest</a> held 61 years later.<a href="#cite_note-Diamond-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[44]</a> Additionally this would remain the only contest to feature a male presenter for 22 years, until the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1978" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1978">1978 contest</a> featured a male and female presenting duo.<a href="#cite_note-50">[45]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Intermission" title="Intermission">interval</a> between the final competing act and the announcement of the winner, performances by Les Joyeux Rossignols and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Les_Trois_M%C3%A9nestrels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Les Trois Ménestrels (page does not exist)">Les Trois Ménestrels</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Trois_M%C3%A9nestrels" class="extiw" title="fr:Les Trois Ménestrels">fr</a>] were featured to entertain the audience, with the latter performing "Guerre de Troie" along with other works.<a href="#cite_note-51">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[48]</a> Upon the announcement of the results, the winning artist returned to the stage for a <a href="/wiki/Reprise#Winner_reprise" title="Reprise">reprise performance</a> of the winning song to end the broadcast.<a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_contest-27">[26]</a> The winning song was "<a href="/wiki/Refrain_(Lys_Assia_song)" title="Refrain (Lys Assia song)">Refrain</a>", composed by <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9o_Voumard" title="Géo Voumard">Géo Voumard</a>, written by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gardaz" title="Émile Gardaz">Émile Gardaz</a>, performed by <a href="/wiki/Lys_Assia" title="Lys Assia">Lys Assia</a> and representing the host country <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Switzerland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Switzerland-54">[49]</a> During the reprise performance of the winning song, Assia became emotional and suffered a lapse in memory of the song's lyrics, subsequently requesting a restart by the orchestra.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_contest-27">[26]</a> After the show, a reception for the participating delegations was held in the upper hall of <a href="/wiki/Casin%C3%B2_Lugano" title="Casinò Lugano">Teatro Kursaal</a> on behalf of the host city Lugano, the canton <a href="/wiki/Ticino" title="Ticino">Ticino</a>, and SRG SSR.<a href="#cite_note-55">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[52]</a> The full results of the contest were not revealed at the time, with only the winning song named at the end of the show by the jury president Rolf Liebermann; the full breakdown of each juror's votes has not been retained by the EBU, and is presumed lost.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-contestAV-30">[28]</a> Attempts to reconstruct the voting through interviews with jury members have also failed to reveal a reliable result.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a> An article in Italian newspaper <a href="/wiki/La_Stampa" title="La Stampa">La Stampa</a> published on 25 May 1956, the day after the contest, reported that Switzerland's winning entry received 102 points in total, while in a post-contest interview with Stelio Molo, the Director General of SRG SSR, published in the Italian magazine Settimana Radio TV in the weeks following the contest, the gap between the first- and second-placed songs was revealed by Molo to be two points, and that the remaining entries also finished close to the winner.<a href="#cite_note-58">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[54]</a> These claims have however failed to be corroborated by the contest organisers in the years since.<a href="#cite_note-ESC1956-4">[3]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend">  Winner</div> <table class="sortable wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1956<a href="#cite_note-1956results-22">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_contest-27">[26]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Running order">R/O</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Country </th> <th scope="col">Artist </th> <th scope="col">Song </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Netherlands</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jetty_Paerl" title="Jetty Paerl">Jetty Paerl</a> </td> <td>"De vogels van Holland" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" />  <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Switzerland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lys_Assia" title="Lys Assia">Lys Assia</a> </td> <td>"Das alte Karussell" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">3 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Belgium</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fud_Leclerc" title="Fud Leclerc">Fud Leclerc</a> </td> <td>"Messieurs les noyés de la Seine" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">4 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Germany</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Andreas_Schwarz" title="Walter Andreas Schwarz">Walter Andreas Schwarz</a> </td> <td>"Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück"<a href="#cite_note-de-32">[c]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">5 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">France</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Math%C3%A9_Alt%C3%A9ry" title="Mathé Altéry">Mathé Altéry</a> </td> <td>"Le Temps perdu" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">6 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /> <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest">Luxembourg</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Arnaud" title="Michèle Arnaud">Michèle Arnaud</a> </td> <td>"Ne crois pas" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">7 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /> <a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" class="mw-redirect" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Italy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Franca_Raimondi" title="Franca Raimondi">Franca Raimondi</a> </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Aprite_le_finestre" title="Aprite le finestre">Aprite le finestre</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">8 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Netherlands</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Corry_Brokken" title="Corry Brokken">Corry Brokken</a> </td> <td>"Voorgoed voorbij" </td></tr> <tr style="font-weight:bold; background:gold"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:gold">9 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" />  <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Switzerland</a> </td> <td>Lys Assia </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Refrain_(Lys_Assia_song)" title="Refrain (Lys Assia song)">Refrain</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">10 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Belgium</a> </td> <td>Mony Marc </td> <td>"Le Plus Beau Jour de ma vie" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">11 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Germany</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Quinn" title="Freddy Quinn">Freddy Quinn</a> </td> <td>"So geht das jede Nacht" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">12 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">France</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dany_Dauberson" title="Dany Dauberson">Dany Dauberson</a> </td> <td>"Il est là" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">13 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /> <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest">Luxembourg</a> </td> <td>Michèle Arnaud </td> <td>"Les Amants de minuit" </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">14 </th> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /> <a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956" class="mw-redirect" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956">Italy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tonina_Torrielli" title="Tonina Torrielli">Tonina Torrielli</a> </td> <td>"Amami se vuoi" </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Broadcasts">Broadcasts</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Broadcasts">edit</a>]</div> Broadcasters competing in the event were required to relay the contest via its networks; non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest.<a href="#cite_note-reglement-36">[32]</a> In addition to the television channels of the seven participating broadcasters and three non-participating passive broadcasters, the contest was also broadcast live on seven radio networks and recorded for later transmission by another 13.<a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-decade-14">[13]</a> The United Kingdom's BBC took only partial live transmission of the event, joining 45 minutes into the contest and only showing the second set of entries from each country.<a href="#cite_note-Radio_Times-3">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">[4]</a> Due to a technical fault, the transmission of images was interrupted during <a href="/wiki/Math%C3%A9_Alt%C3%A9ry" title="Mathé Altéry">Mathé Altéry</a>'s performance for about three minutes on German, Danish and French television.<a href="#cite_note-Berlingske-20">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-:6-61">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-62">[57]</a> Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators, are shown in the tables below. No video footage of the whole contest is known to exist, with the only known footage being clips of the reprise performance of the winning song via <a href="/wiki/Newsreel" title="Newsreel">newsreel</a> and other recordings. As such, this is one of only two editions of the contest, along with the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1964" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1964">1964 contest</a>, to not have video recordings of the full event retained.<a href="#cite_note-63">[58]</a> Audio of most of the contest has, however, survived, with only the majority of the contest's interval acts currently lost. Attempts to find audiovisual materials related to the contest have yielded some results in recent years, including a large cache of photographs and some video footage taken by Swiss photographer Vincenzo Vicari from inside the venue.<a href="#cite_note-64">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[61]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1253789634"> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sticky-header"> <caption>Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Country </th> <th scope="col">Broadcaster </th> <th scope="col">Channel(s) </th> <th scope="col">Commentator(s) </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="References">Ref(s)</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> Belgium </th> <td><a href="/wiki/RTBF" title="RTBF">INR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/La_Une" title="La Une">INR</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raymond_Colbert_(radio_personality)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raymond Colbert (radio personality) (page does not exist)">Raymond Colbert</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Colbert" class="extiw" title="fr:Raymond Colbert">fr</a>] </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-67">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/VRT_(broadcaster)" title="VRT (broadcaster)">NIR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/VRT_1" title="VRT 1">NIR</a> </td> <td>Piet te Nuyl Jr. </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-68">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> France </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Radiodiffusion-T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Fran%C3%A7aise" title="Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française">RTF</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TF1" title="TF1">RTF</a> </td> <td>Michelle Rebel </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-69">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[65]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/France_Inter" title="France Inter">Paris-Inter</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-71">[66]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> Germany </th> <td><a href="/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)" title="ARD (broadcaster)">ARD</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Das_Erste" title="Das Erste">Deutsches Fernsehen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Irene_Koss" title="Irene Koss">Irene Koss</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-:0-62">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[67]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Radio_Bremen" title="Radio Bremen">Radio Bremen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Radio_Bremen_2" title="Radio Bremen 2">Radio Bremen 2</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-73">[68]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /> Italy </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rai_1" title="Rai 1">Programma Nazionale</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Franco_Marazzi" title="Franco Marazzi">Franco Marazzi</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-74">[69]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rai_Radio_2" title="Rai Radio 2">Secondo Programma</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-75">[70]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /> Luxembourg </th> <td><a href="/wiki/RTL_Group" title="RTL Group">CLT</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/RTL9" title="RTL9">Télé-Luxembourg</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-76">[71]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> Netherlands </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Nederlandse_Televisie_Stichting" class="mw-redirect" title="Nederlandse Televisie Stichting">NTS</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NPO_1" title="NPO 1">NTS</a> </td> <td>Piet te Nuyl Jr. </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-77">[72]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="rowgroup" rowspan="5"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" />  Switzerland </th> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Swiss Broadcasting Corporation">SRG SSR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/SRF_1" title="SRF 1">SRG</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Sch%C3%A4uffele&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fritz Schäuffele (page does not exist)">Fritz Schäuffele</a> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Sch%C3%A4uffele" class="extiw" title="de:Fritz Schäuffele">de</a>] </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-78">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[74]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/RTS_1_(Swiss_TV_channel)" title="RTS 1 (Swiss TV channel)">TSR</a> </td> <td>Raymond Colbert </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-Suisse-80">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[76]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Radio_SRF_1" title="Radio SRF 1">DRS</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-82">[77]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/La_Premi%C3%A8re_(Switzerland)" class="mw-redirect" title="La Première (Switzerland)">RSR</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-Radio-83">[78]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/RSI_Rete_Uno" title="RSI Rete Uno">RSI</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-84">[79]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Country </th> <th scope="col">Broadcaster </th> <th scope="col">Channel(s) </th> <th scope="col">Commentator(s) </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="References">Ref(s)</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> Austria </th> <td><a href="/wiki/ORF_(broadcaster)" title="ORF (broadcaster)">ORF</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ORF_1" title="ORF 1">ORF</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-85">[80]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /> Denmark </th> <td><a href="/wiki/DR_(broadcaster)" title="DR (broadcaster)">Statsradiofonien</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/DR1" title="DR1">Statsradiofonien TV</a> </td> <td>Jens Frederik Lawaetz </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-86">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[82]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> United Kingdom </th> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC Television Service</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Thomas" title="Wilfrid Thomas">Wilfrid Thomas</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-Radio_Times-3">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roxburgh_contest-27">[26]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes and references">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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broadcasting consortium <a href="/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)" title="ARD (broadcaster)">ARD</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[27]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-de-32">^ <a href="#cite_ref-de_32-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-de_32-1">b</a> Credited as "Das Lied vom großen Glück"<a href="#cite_note-contestAV-30">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Dolf_van_der_Linden" title="Dolf van der Linden">Dolf van der Linden</a>, who was originally selected to lead the orchestra for the Dutch entries, was unable to attend the contest and was replaced by the host musical director Paggi.<a href="#cite_note-De_Telegraaf-33">[30]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a> A meeting of EBU's working group GTV/2 (Eurovision) took place from 21 to 25 May in Gardone.<a href="#cite_note-45">[41]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1956&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Melfest-2"><a href="#cite_ref-Melfest_2-0">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em 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Melodifestivalen genom tiderna : de svenska uttagningarna och internationella finalerna [Melodifestivalen through the ages: the Swedish selections and international finals] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Premium Publishing. pp. 8–9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/91-89136-29-2" title="Special:BookSources/91-89136-29-2"><bdi>91-89136-29-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Melodifestivalen+genom+tiderna+%3A+de+svenska+uttagningarna+och+internationella+finalerna&rft.place=Stockholm&rft.pages=8-9&rft.pub=Premium+Publishing&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=91-89136-29-2&rft.aulast=Thorsson&rft.aufirst=Leif&rft.au=Verhage%2C+Martin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Radio_Times-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Radio_Times_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Radio_Times_3-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Radio_Times_3-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/8550f816c7ad447fbfccbf0903ad4814?page=38">"Thursday 24 May – Television"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Radio_Times" title="Radio Times">Radio Times</a>. 18 May 1956. p. 38. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220811084616/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/8550f816c7ad447fbfccbf0903ad4814?page=38">Archived</a> from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Radio+Times&rft.atitle=Thursday+24+May+%E2%80%93+Television&rft.pages=38&rft.date=1956-05-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgenome.ch.bbc.co.uk%2Fpage%2F8550f816c7ad447fbfccbf0903ad4814%3Fpage%3D38&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-ESC1956-4">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ESC1956_4-10">k</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956">"Lugano 1956 – Eurovision Song Contest"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220523155354/https://eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956">Archived</a> from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lugano+1956+%E2%80%93+Eurovision+Song+Contest&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fevent%2Flugano-1956&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Roxburgh_production-5">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-10">k</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-11">l</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-12">m</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-13">n</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-14">o</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-15">p</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_production_5-16">q</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoxburgh2012" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). 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"Singing out loud and proud". <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Evening_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol Evening Post">Bristol Evening Post</a>. <a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail_and_General_Trust" title="Daily Mail and General Trust">Daily Mail and General Trust</a>. <q>In the mid-1950s, the members of the European Broadcasting Union set up an ad hoc committee to investigate ways of rallying the countries of Europe round a light entertainment programme. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organisations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in Devon, United Kingdom. It was on 6 June 1954, that Montreux became the venue for the first transmission by the EBU's Eurovision Network of the Narcissus Festival and its flower-bedecked procession floats. At Monaco, in late January 1955, this committee, chaired by Marcel Bezençon, director general of Swiss Television, came up with the idea of creating a song contest, inspired by the very popular San Remo Festival. 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European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211019013426/https://eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956/final">Archived</a> from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Final+of+Lugano+1956+%E2%80%93+Eurovision+Song+Contest&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fevent%2Flugano-1956%2Ffinal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/country/switzerland">"Switzerland – Country Profile"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220517180117/https://eurovision.tv/country/switzerland">Archived</a> from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Switzerland+%E2%80%93+Country+Profile&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fcountry%2Fswitzerland&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/country/the-netherlands">"Netherlands – Country Profile"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220517163809/https://eurovision.tv/country/the-netherlands">Archived</a> from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Netherlands+%E2%80%93+Country+Profile&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fcountry%2Fthe-netherlands&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/country/belgium">"Belgium – Country Profile"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220515172952/https://eurovision.tv/country/belgium">Archived</a> from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Belgium+%E2%80%93+Country+Profile&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fcountry%2Fbelgium&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956/participants">"Participants of Lugano 1956"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230602090553/https://eurovision.tv/event/lugano-1956/participants">Archived</a> from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Participants+of+Lugano+1956&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fevent%2Flugano-1956%2Fparticipants&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Roxburgh_contest-27">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_contest_27-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_contest_27-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_contest_27-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_contest_27-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roxburgh_contest_27-4">e</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoxburgh2012" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 96–100. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84583-065-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84583-065-6"><bdi>978-1-84583-065-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Songs+for+Europe%3A+The+United+Kingdom+at+the+Eurovision+Song+Contest&rft.place=Prestatyn&rft.pages=96-100&rft.pub=Telos+Publishing&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-84583-065-6&rft.aulast=Roxburgh&rft.aufirst=Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/vorentscheid386_glossaryPage-25.html">"Alle deutschen ESC-Acts und ihre Titel"</a> [All German ESC acts and their songs]. eurovision.de (in German). ARD. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230612084259/https://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/vorentscheid386_glossaryPage-25.html">Archived</a> from the original on 12 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=eurovision.de&rft.atitle=Alle+deutschen+ESC-Acts+und+ihre+Titel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurovision.de%2Fteilnehmer%2Fvorentscheid386_glossaryPage-25.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-contestAV-30">^ <a href="#cite_ref-contestAV_30-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-contestAV_30-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1956 [Eurovision Grand Prix of European Song 1956] (Television programme) (in French and Italian). <a href="/wiki/Lugano" title="Lugano">Lugano</a>, Switzerland: <a href="/wiki/Radiotelevisione_svizzera" title="Radiotelevisione svizzera">Radio svizzera italiana</a>. 24 May 1956.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Grand+Prix+Eurovision+de+la+Chanson+Europ%C3%A9enne+1956&rft.place=Lugano%2C+Switzerland&rft.pub=Radio+svizzera+italiana&rft.date=1956-05-24&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">"Wir sahen und hörten" [We saw and heard]. Fernseh-Informationen (in German). No. 14/1956. 1956. p. 311. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0015-0134">0015-0134</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/643533986">643533986</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fernseh-Informationen&rft.atitle=Wir+sahen+und+h%C3%B6rten&rft.issue=14%2F1956&rft.pages=311&rft.date=1956&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F643533986&rft.issn=0015-0134&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-De_Telegraaf-33"><a href="#cite_ref-De_Telegraaf_33-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ddd:110586505:mpeg21:p009">"Kijk naar: Song festival"</a> [Watch: Song Contest]. <a href="/wiki/De_Telegraaf" title="De Telegraaf">De Telegraaf</a> (in Dutch). 24 May 1956. p. 9. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220530161811/https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ddd:110586505:mpeg21:p009">Archived</a> from the original on 30 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=De+Telegraaf&rft.atitle=Kijk+naar%3A+Song+festival&rft.pages=9&rft.date=1956-05-24&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delpher.nl%2Fnl%2Fkranten%2Fview%3Fcoll%3Dddd%26identifier%3Dddd%3A110586505%3Ampeg21%3Ap009&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/story/exclusively-from-the-archive-the-rules-of-1956">"Exclusively from the archive: The Rules of 1956!"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. 18 December 2008. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201202185547/https://eurovision.tv/story/exclusively-from-the-archive-the-rules-of-1956">Archived</a> from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Exclusively+from+the+archive%3A+The+Rules+of+1956%21&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft.date=2008-12-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fstory%2Fexclusively-from-the-archive-the-rules-of-1956&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-reglement-36">^ <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-10">k</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-11">l</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-12">m</a> <a href="#cite_ref-reglement_36-13">n</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160620231134/http://www.eurovision.tv/upload/history/1956/56_rules.pdf">"Règlement du Grand Prix Eurovision 1956 de la Chanson Européenne (version définitive)"</a> [Rules of the Grand Prix of the Eurovision Song Competition 1956 (final version)] (PDF) (in French). European Broadcasting Union. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/upload/history/1956/56_rules.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 20 June 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=R%C3%A8glement+du+Grand+Prix+Eurovision+1956+de+la+Chanson+Europ%C3%A9enne+%28version+d%C3%A9finitive%29&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fupload%2Fhistory%2F1956%2F56_rules.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=FDV19560509-01.2.53">"Une série d'émissions du Tessin"</a> [A series of broadcasts from Ticino]. Journal et feuille d’avis du Valais (in French). 9 May 1956. p. 6. Retrieved 31 December 2023 – via <a href="/wiki/E-newspaperarchives.ch" title="E-newspaperarchives.ch">E-newspaperarchives.ch</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+et+feuille+d%E2%80%99avis+du+Valais&rft.atitle=Une+s%C3%A9rie+d%27%C3%A9missions+du+Tessin&rft.pages=6&rft.date=1956-05-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-newspaperarchives.ch%2F%3Fa%3Dd%26d%3DFDV19560509-01.2.53&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=OTB19560526-01.2.25">"Für Radiofreunde: Die Schweiz gewinnt den europäischen Chansonswettbewerb"</a> [For radio fans: Switzerland wins the European chanson competition]. Oberländer Tagblatt (in German). 26 May 1956. p. 4. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2673-2157">2673-2157</a>. Retrieved 31 December 2023 – via <a href="/wiki/E-newspaperarchives.ch" title="E-newspaperarchives.ch">E-newspaperarchives.ch</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Oberl%C3%A4nder+Tagblatt&rft.atitle=F%C3%BCr+Radiofreunde%3A+Die+Schweiz+gewinnt+den+europ%C3%A4ischen+Chansonswettbewerb&rft.pages=4&rft.date=1956-05-26&rft.issn=2673-2157&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-newspaperarchives.ch%2F%3Fa%3Dd%26d%3DOTB19560526-01.2.25&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoxburgh2012" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. p. 100. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84583-065-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84583-065-6"><bdi>978-1-84583-065-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Songs+for+Europe%3A+The+United+Kingdom+at+the+Eurovision+Song+Contest&rft.place=Prestatyn&rft.pages=100&rft.pub=Telos+Publishing&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-84583-065-6&rft.aulast=Roxburgh&rft.aufirst=Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.letempsarchives.ch/page/GDL_1956_05_28/7/article/2796396/">"Malgré 'Refrain', il n'y eut que peu de smokings..."</a> [Despite 'Refrain', there were only a few tuxedos...]. Gazette de Lausanne (in French). 28 May 1956. p. 7. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1010-206X">1010-206X</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1367317950">1367317950</a>. Retrieved 8 November 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Gazette+de+Lausanne&rft.atitle=Malgr%C3%A9+%27Refrain%27%2C+il+n%27y+eut+que+peu+de+smokings...&rft.pages=7&rft.date=1956-05-28&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1367317950&rft.issn=1010-206X&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.letempsarchives.ch%2Fpage%2FGDL_1956_05_28%2F7%2Farticle%2F2796396%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">"Alla canzone svizzera 'Refrain' il 'Gran Premio Eurovisione 1956'" [The Grand Prix Eurovision 1956 to the Swiss song 'Refrain']. <a href="/wiki/Corriere_del_Ticino" title="Corriere del Ticino">Corriere del Ticino</a> (in Italian). 26 May 1956. p. 2. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1660-9646">1660-9646</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1284212173">1284212173</a>. <q>[...] ma durante quel venti minuti che i giurati hanno dedicato alla fase conclusiva della loro deliberazioni nella sala del bridge il brioso duo del 'Rossignols' e i tre argutissimi menestrelli si sono prodotti [...]</q> [[...] but during those twenty minutes which the jurors dedicated to the final phase of their deliberations in the Bridge room the lively duo 'Rossignols' and the three very witty menestrels performed [...]]</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Corriere+del+Ticino&rft.atitle=Alla+canzone+svizzera+%E2%80%98Refrain%E2%80%99+il+%E2%80%98Gran+Premio+Eurovisione+1956%E2%80%99&rft.pages=2&rft.date=1956-05-26&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1284212173&rft.issn=1660-9646&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110586508:mpeg21:a0111">"Jury mocht niet bij telling in Lugano"</a> [Jury were not allowed at the count in Lugano]. <a href="/wiki/De_Telegraaf" title="De Telegraaf">De Telegraaf</a> (in Dutch). 28 May 1956. p. 4. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/643834779">643834779</a>. Retrieved 5 November 2023 – via <a href="/wiki/Delpher" title="Delpher">Delpher</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=De+Telegraaf&rft.atitle=Jury+mocht+niet+bij+telling+in+Lugano&rft.pages=4&rft.date=1956-05-28&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F643834779&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fresolver.kb.nl%2Fresolve%3Furn%3Dddd%3A110586508%3Ampeg21%3Aa0111&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoxburgh2012" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. p. 99. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84583-065-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84583-065-6"><bdi>978-1-84583-065-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Songs+for+Europe%3A+The+United+Kingdom+at+the+Eurovision+Song+Contest&rft.place=Prestatyn&rft.pages=99&rft.pub=Telos+Publishing&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-84583-065-6&rft.aulast=Roxburgh&rft.aufirst=Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-throwback-44"><a href="#cite_ref-throwback_44-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEscudero2017" class="citation web cs1">Escudero, Victor M. (26 October 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/story/throwback-thursday-1957">"#ThrowbackThursday to 60 years ago: Eurovision 1957"</a>. <a href="/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union" title="European Broadcasting Union">European Broadcasting Union</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180102163146/https://eurovision.tv/story/throwback-thursday-1957">Archived</a> from the original on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%23ThrowbackThursday+to+60+years+ago%3A+Eurovision+1957&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft.date=2017-10-26&rft.aulast=Escudero&rft.aufirst=Victor+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fstory%2Fthrowback-thursday-1957&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">"Nouvelles internationales : Calendrier des conférences et réunions internationales intéressant à quelque titre la radiodiffusion" [International News: Calendar of international conferences and meetings of any interest to broadcasting]. Bulletin de l'U.E.R. (in French). 7 (36). <a href="/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union" title="European Broadcasting Union">Union européenne de radiodiffusion</a>: 211. March–April 1956.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bulletin+de+l%27U.E.R.&rft.atitle=Nouvelles+internationales+%3A+Calendrier+des+conf%C3%A9rences+et+r%C3%A9unions+internationales+int%C3%A9ressant+%C3%A0+quelque+titre+la+radiodiffusion&rft.volume=7&rft.issue=36&rft.pages=211&rft.date=1956-03%2F1956-04&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1956 [Eurovision Grand Prix of European Song 1956] (Television programme) (in Italian). <a href="/wiki/Lugano" title="Lugano">Lugano</a>, Switzerland: <a href="/wiki/Radiotelevisione_svizzera" title="Radiotelevisione svizzera">Radio svizzera italiana</a>. 24 May 1956. Event occurs at 07:30 min. <q>[Lohengrin Filipello introducing the second entry:] Seconda sorteggiata a Gardone la Svizzera</q> [Drawn in second place in Gardone: Switzerland]</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Grand+Prix+Eurovision+de+la+Chanson+Europ%C3%A9enne+1956&rft.place=Lugano%2C+Switzerland&rft.pub=Radio+svizzera+italiana&rft.date=1956-05-24&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBiscossa1956" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Biscossa, Giuseppe (26 May 1956). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sbt.ti.ch/quotidiani-public-pdf/main_part.php?fullscreen=true&paper=gdp&day=26&month=5&year=1956&page=2&allpages=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8">"A une romantica canzone della Svizzera francese il G. Premio Eurovisione 1956 della canzone europea"</a> [A romantic song from French Switzerland was awarded the 1956 Eurovision Grand Prix for European song]. <a href="/wiki/Giornale_del_Popolo" title="Giornale del Popolo">Giornale del Popolo</a> (in Italian). p. 2. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1660-9662">1660-9662</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/173873718">173873718</a>. Retrieved 4 January 2024. <q>A Gardone, giorni prima, era stato sorteggiato il turno di presentazione: Olanda, Svizzera, Belgio, Germania, Francia, Lussemburgo e Italia.</q> [In Gardone, days before, the order of presentation had been drawn: Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg and Italy.]</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Giornale+del+Popolo&rft.atitle=A+une+romantica+canzone+della+Svizzera+francese+il+G.+Premio+Eurovisione+1956+della+canzone+europea&rft.pages=2&rft.date=1956-05-26&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F173873718&rft.issn=1660-9662&rft.aulast=Biscossa&rft.aufirst=Giuseppe&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbt.ti.ch%2Fquotidiani-public-pdf%2Fmain_part.php%3Ffullscreen%3Dtrue%26paper%3Dgdp%26day%3D26%26month%3D5%26year%3D1956%26page%3D2%26allpages%3D1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C7%2C8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJordan2017" class="citation web cs1">Jordan, Paul (27 February 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/story/let-s-hear-it-for-the-boys-meet-the-hosts-of-eurovision-2017">"Let's hear it for the boys! Meet the hosts of Eurovision 2017"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170424001032/https://eurovision.tv/story/let-s-hear-it-for-the-boys-meet-the-hosts-of-eurovision-2017">Archived</a> from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Let%27s+hear+it+for+the+boys%21+Meet+the+hosts+of+Eurovision+2017&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft.date=2017-02-27&rft.aulast=Jordan&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fstory%2Flet-s-hear-it-for-the-boys-meet-the-hosts-of-eurovision-2017&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Connor2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Kennedy_O%27Connor" title="John Kennedy O'Connor">O'Connor, John Kennedy</a> (2010). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History (2nd ed.). London: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Publishing_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Carlton Publishing Group">Carlton Books</a>. p. 72. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84732-521-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84732-521-1"><bdi>978-1-84732-521-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Eurovision+Song+Contest%3A+The+Official+History&rft.place=London&rft.pages=72&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Carlton+Books&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-84732-521-1&rft.aulast=O%27Connor&rft.aufirst=John+Kennedy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Connor2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Kennedy_O%27Connor" title="John Kennedy O'Connor">O'Connor, John Kennedy</a> (2010). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History (2nd ed.). London: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Publishing_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Carlton Publishing Group">Carlton Books</a>. p. 216. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84732-521-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84732-521-1"><bdi>978-1-84732-521-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Eurovision+Song+Contest%3A+The+Official+History&rft.place=London&rft.pages=216&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Carlton+Books&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-84732-521-1&rft.aulast=O%27Connor&rft.aufirst=John+Kennedy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBiscossa" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Biscossa, Giuseppe. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sbt.ti.ch/quotidiani-public-pdf/main_part.php?fullscreen=true&paper=gdp&day=26&month=5&year=1956&page=2&allpages=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8&papername=Giornale%20del%20Popolo">"60 milioni di persone guardovano a Lugano: A una romantica canzone della Svizzera francese il G. Premio Eurovisione 1956 della canzone europea"</a> [60 million people watched Lugano: A romantic song from French-speaking Switzerland won the 1956 Eurovision Grand Prix for European song] (in Italian). Giornale del Popolo. p. 2. Retrieved 23 June 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=60+milioni+di+persone+guardovano+a+Lugano%3A+A+una+romantica+canzone+della+Svizzera+francese+il+G.+Premio+Eurovisione+1956+della+canzone+europea&rft.pages=2&rft.pub=Giornale+del+Popolo&rft.aulast=Biscossa&rft.aufirst=Giuseppe&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbt.ti.ch%2Fquotidiani-public-pdf%2Fmain_part.php%3Ffullscreen%3Dtrue%26paper%3Dgdp%26day%3D26%26month%3D5%26year%3D1956%26page%3D2%26allpages%3D1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C7%2C8%26papername%3DGiornale%2520del%2520Popolo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dr.dk/alletidersprogramoversigter/?from=1956-05-24&to=1956-05-25&date=1956-05-24&fileIndex=8">"Kodaliste for fjernsyn – Torsdag den 24. maj 1956 – 21.00: Eurovision"</a> [Coda list for television – Thursday 24 May 1956 – 21:00: Eurovision] (in Danish). <a href="/wiki/DR_(broadcaster)" title="DR (broadcaster)">Danmarks Radio</a>. Retrieved 14 March 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Kodaliste+for+fjernsyn+%E2%80%93+Torsdag+den+24.+maj+1956+%E2%80%93+21.00%3A+Eurovision&rft.pub=Danmarks+Radio&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2Falletidersprogramoversigter%2F%3Ffrom%3D1956-05-24%26to%3D1956-05-25%26date%3D1956-05-24%26fileIndex%3D8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Switzerland-54"><a href="#cite_ref-Switzerland_54-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eurovision.tv/participant/lys-assia-3">"Lys Assia – Switzerland – Lugano 1956"</a>. European Broadcasting Union. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220408000304/https://eurovision.tv/participant/lys-assia-3">Archived</a> from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lys+Assia+%E2%80%93+Switzerland+%E2%80%93+Lugano+1956&rft.pub=European+Broadcasting+Union&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feurovision.tv%2Fparticipant%2Flys-assia-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEurovision+Song+Contest+1956" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFasolis1956" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Fasolis, Ugo (26 May 1956). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sbt.ti.ch/quotidiani-public-pdf/main_part.php?fullscreen=true&paper=ls&day=26&month=5&year=1956&page=7&allpages=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8&papername=Libera%20Stampa">"Il premio Eurovisione 1956"</a> [The Eurovision prize of 1956]. Libera Stampa (in Italian). p. 7. 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href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1961" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1961">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1962" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1962">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1963" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1963">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1964" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1964">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1965" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1965">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1966" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1966">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1967" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1967">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1968" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1968">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1969" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1969">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1970" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1970">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1971" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1971">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1972" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1972">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1973" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1973">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1974" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1974">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1975" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1975">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1976" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1976">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1977" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1977">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1978" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1978">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1979" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1979">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1980" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1980">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1981" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1981">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1982" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1982">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1983" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1983">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1984" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1984">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1985" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1985">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1986" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1986">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1987" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1987">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1988" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1988">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1989" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1989">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1990" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1990">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1991" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1991">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1992" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1992">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1993" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1993">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1994" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1994">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1995" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1995">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1996" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1996">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1997" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1997">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1998" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1998">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1999" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1999">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2000" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2000">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2001" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2001">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2002" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2002">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2003" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2003">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2004" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2004">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2005" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2005">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2006" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2006">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2007" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2007">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2008" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2008">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2009" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2009">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2010" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2010">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2011" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2011">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2012" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2012">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2013" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2013">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2014" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2014">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2015" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2015">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2016" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2016">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2017" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2017">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2018" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2018">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2019" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2019">2019</a></li> <li><s><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2020" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2020">2020</a></s></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2021" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2021">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2022" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2022">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2023" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2023">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2024" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2024">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2025" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2025">2025</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest">Countries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albania_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austria_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest">Czech Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denmark_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estonia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="France in the Eurovision Song Contest">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germany_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greece_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest">Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iceland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ireland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuania_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malta_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest">Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montenegro_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norway_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portugal_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Marino_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest">San Marino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovenia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Slovenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spain_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweden_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest">United Kingdom</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inactive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andorra_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Andorra in the Eurovision Song Contest">Andorra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungary_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monaco_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest">Monaco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morocco_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Morocco in the Eurovision Song Contest">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="North Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovakia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Slovakia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest">Turkey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ineligible</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belarus_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Russia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest">Serbia and Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Yugoslavia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Debut attempts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lebanon_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Lebanon in the Eurovision Song Contest">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liechtenstein_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="Liechtenstein in the Eurovision Song Contest">Liechtenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunisia in the Eurovision Song Contest">Tunisia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Relations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_relations_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Armenia–Azerbaijan relations in the Eurovision Song Contest">Armenia–Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Russia–Ukraine relations in the Eurovision Song Contest">Russia–Ukraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National selections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Festivali_i_K%C3%ABng%C3%ABs" title="Festivali i Këngës">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dansk_Melodi_Grand_Prix" title="Dansk Melodi Grand Prix">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eesti_Laul" title="Eesti Laul">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uuden_Musiikin_Kilpailu" title="Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Voice_Georgia" title="The Voice Georgia">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B6ngvakeppnin" title="Söngvakeppnin">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_(Irish_talk_show)" title="The Late Late Show (Irish talk show)">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rising_Star_(Israeli_TV_series)" title="Rising Star (Israeli TV series)">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanremo_Music_Festival" title="Sanremo Music Festival">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernova_(Latvian_TV_series)" title="Supernova (Latvian TV series)">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melodi_Grand_Prix" title="Melodi Grand Prix">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festival_da_Can%C3%A7%C3%A3o" title="Festival da Canção">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pesma_za_Evroviziju" title="Pesma za Evroviziju">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benidorm_Fest" title="Benidorm Fest">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melodifestivalen" title="Melodifestivalen">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidbir" title="Vidbir">Ukraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Depi_Evratesil" title="Depi Evratesil">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_%E2%80%93_Australia_Decides" title="Eurovision – Australia Decides">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geostar" title="Geostar">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellinik%C3%B3s_Telik%C3%B3s" title="Ellinikós Telikós">Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Dal" title="A Dal">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/You%27re_a_Star" title="You're a Star">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canzonissima" title="Canzonissima">Italy</a></li> <li>Israel <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Song_Festival" title="Israel Song Festival">Israel Song Festival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kdam_Eurovision" title="Kdam Eurovision">Kdam Eurovision</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_X_Factor_Israel" title="The X Factor Israel">The X Factor Israel</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X_Factor_Malta" title="X Factor Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationaal_Songfestival" title="Nationaal Songfestival">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skopje_Fest" title="Skopje Fest">North Macedonia</a></li> <li>Poland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Krajowe_Eliminacje" title="Krajowe Eliminacje">Krajowe Eliminacje</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Szansa_na_Sukces" title="Szansa na Sukces">Szansa na Sukces</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evrovidenie" title="Evrovidenie">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evropesma" title="Evropesma">Serbia and Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beovizija" title="Beovizija">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bratislavsk%C3%A1_l%C3%BDra" title="Bratislavská lýra">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Triunfo_(Spanish_TV_series)" title="Operación Triunfo (Spanish TV series)">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_national_selection_for_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="UK national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jugovizija" title="Jugovizija">Yugoslavia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_Awards" title="Marcel Bezençon Awards">Marcel Bezençon Awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OGAE" title="OGAE">OGAE</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OGAE_Second_Chance_Contest" title="OGAE Second Chance Contest">OGAE Second Chance Contest</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Dex_Award" title="Barbara Dex Award">Barbara Dex Award</a> (1997–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/You%27re_a_Vision_Award" title="You're a Vision Award">You're a Vision Award</a> (2022–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Special shows</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">EBU</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_Previews" title="Eurovision Song Contest Previews">Eurovision Song Contest Previews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Songs_of_Europe_(1981_concert)" title="Songs of Europe (1981 concert)">Songs of Europe</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kvalifikacija_za_Millstreet" title="Kvalifikacija za Millstreet">Kvalifikacija za Millstreet</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congratulations:_50_Years_of_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest">Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest%27s_Greatest_Hits" title="Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits">Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/EurovisionAgain" title="EurovisionAgain">EurovisionAgain</a> (2020–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision:_Europe_Shine_a_Light" title="Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light">Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light</a> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Die_Grand_Prix_Hitliste" title="Die Grand Prix Hitliste">Die Grand Prix Hitliste</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Het_Grote_Songfestivalfeest" title="Het Grote Songfestivalfeest">Het Grote Songfestivalfeest</a> (2019, 2022–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Der_kleine_Song_Contest" title="Der kleine Song Contest">Der kleine Song Contest</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2020_%E2%80%93_das_deutsche_Finale" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2020 – das deutsche Finale">ESC 2020 – das deutsche Finale</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurovision:_Come_Together" title="Eurovision: Come Together">Eurovision: Come Together</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sveriges_12:a" title="Sveriges 12:a">Sveriges 12:a</a> (2020)</li></ul> 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