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In 1969, this resulted in a four-way tie for first place, between the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Spain, with no tie-breaking procedure. A second round of voting in the event of a tie was introduced to this system in 1970. From 1962 to 1966, a voting system similar to the current one was used.
The venue selected to host the 1969 contest was the Teatro Real, an opera house located in Madrid opened in 1850. After having to close in 1924 due to damage to the building, the venue reopened in 1966 as a concert hall and the main concert venue of the Spanish National Orchestra and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra .
Produces a list of all countries which participated in a given edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, with links to their respective "country-in-contest-by-year" articles (e.g. Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956). Individual templates exist for each contest; changing the year will result in a different list of countries being presented.
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Belgium was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the song "Jennifer Jennings", composed by Paul Quintens, with lyrics by Phil van Cauwenbergh, and performed by Louis Neefs. The Belgian participating broadcaster, Flemish Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep (BRT), selected its entry through a national final, after having ...
To date, on only one occasion since 1969 has there been a tie for first place: in 1991, the entries from Sweden and France had received 146 points each at the end of the voting. The tie-breaking rule in place at the time specified that the country which had received the most sets of 12 points would be declared the winner; if there was still a ...
Spain was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the song "Vivo cantando", composed by María José de Ceratto, with lyrics by Aniano Alcalde, and performed by Salomé. The Spanish participating broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), selected its entry through a national final, after having previously selected the performer ...
Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the song "Primaballerina", written by Hans Blum, and performed by Siw Malmkvist. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), selected its entry through the national final Ein Lied für Madrid.