Junior Eurovision
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest | |
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| Genre | Song contest |
| Created by | Bjørn Erichsen |
| Presented by | List of presenters |
| Theme music composer | Marc-Antoine Charpentier |
| Opening theme | Te Deum: Marche en rondeau (prelude) |
| Ending theme | Te Deum: Marche en rondeau (prelude) |
| Country of origin | List of countries |
| Original language(s) | English and French |
| No. of episodes | 14 contests |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | List of host cities |
| Running time | 2 hours, 15 minutes (2003–2013) 2 hours, 30 minutes (2014–2015) 2 hours, 45 minutes (2016–present) |
| Production company(s) | European Broadcasting Union |
| Distributor | Eurovision |
| Release | |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) (2003–present) 1080i (HDTV) (2006–present) |
| Original release | 15 November 2003 – present |
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| Related shows |
Eurovision Song Contest (1956–) Eurovision Young Musicians (1982–) Eurovision Young Dancers (1985–) Eurovision Dance Contest (2007–2008) Eurovision Choir of the Year (2017–) |
| External links | |
| Official website | www |
| Production website |
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson Junior), often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong, is a song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003 and is open exclusively to broadcasters that are members of the EBU. It is held in a different European city each year, however the same city can host the contest more than once.
The competition has many similarities to the Eurovision Song Contest from which its name is taken. Each participating broadcaster sends an act, the members of which are aged 9 to 14 on the day of the contest, and an original song lasting between 2 minutes 45 seconds and 3 minutes to compete against the other entries. Each entry represents the country served by the participating broadcaster. Viewers from the participating countries are invited to vote for their favourite performances by televote and a national jury from each participating country also vote. The overall winner of the contest is the entry that has received the most points after the scores from every country have been collected and totalled. The current winner is Mariam Mamadashvili of Georgia, who won the 2016 contest in Malta with "Mzeo", becoming the highest scoring winner with a record 239 points (under a new voting system introduced in the 2016 contest). Under the previous system, Destiny Chukunyere from Malta, is the highest scoring winner, having won in 2015 with 185 points.
In addition to the countries taking part, the contest has been screened in Australia every year. Estonia, Finland and Germany also broadcast the inaugural contest in 2003, followed by Andorra in 2006 and Bosnia and Herzegovina (in 2006, 2008 and 2009), however these countries have yet to participate. Since 2006, the contest has been streamed live on the Internet through the official website of the contest. Australia was invited to sing at the 2015 contest and has participated every year since.
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