Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003
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| Dates | |
| Final | 15 November 2003 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Forum Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Presenter(s) |
Camilla Ottesen, Remee |
| Director | Arne J. Rasmussen |
| Executive supervisor | |
| Executive producer | Preben Vridstoft |
| Host broadcaster | Danmarks Radio (DR) |
| Opening act | Fu:el and Dance Faction |
| Interval act |
Sugababes performing "Hole in the Head", Busted performing "Crashed the Wedding" |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 16 |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awards 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs. |
| Nul points | None |
| Winning song |
 Croatia"Ti si moja prva ljubav" |
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Copenhagen 2003 | ||||
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| Compilation album by Junior Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
| Released | November 2003 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 46:44 | |||
| Label | Universal | |||
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the first Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged eight to fifteen. It was held on 15 November 2003, in Copenhagen, Denmark. With Camilla Ottesen and Remee as the presenters, the contest was won by the then eleven-year-old Dino Jelušić, who represented Croatia with his song "Ti si moja prva ljubav" (You are my first love) while second and third place went to Spain and the United Kingdom respectively. The next time that a country would win on its first attempt was Italy in 2014.
It was the first Eurovision contest to be broadcast in the 16:9 widescreen format. It was also the first Eurovision Song Contest where a DVD of the contest would be released. It was decided that the country that won the contest would not necessarily host the next contest, in order to reduce the pressure on the contestants.
The origins of the contest date back to 2000 when Danmarks Radio held a song contest for Danish children that year and the following year. The idea was extended to a Scandinavian song festival in 2002, MGP Nordic, with Denmark, Norway and Sweden as participants. The EBU picked up the idea for a song contest featuring children and opened the competition to all EBU member broadcasters making it a pan-European event. The working title of the programme was "Eurovision Song Contest for Children", branded with the name of the EBU's already popular song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest. Denmark was asked to host the first programme after their experience with their own contests and the MGP Nordic.
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