Kiddy Contest
| Kiddy Contest | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Erwin Kiennast Norman Weichselbaum |
| Presented by | Elmer Rossnegger (Season 1–12) Mirjam Weichselbraun (Season 13–14) Benny Hörtnagl (Season 15) Kati Bellowitsch (Season 16–17) Arabella Kiesbauer (Season 18–20) Silvia Schneider (Season 21-) |
| Country of origin | Austria |
| Original language(s) | German |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Running time | c. 120 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ORF 1 (1995–2011) ZDF (2000) KiKA (2001–02) Super RTL (2004–06, 2008) Puls 4 (2012–) |
| Original release | 5 November 1995 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Kiddy Contest is a televised singing competition for children aged 8 to 13 years, broadcast and organized annually by the Austrian broadcaster ORF from 1995 to 2011. It was also broadcast in Germany by ZDF and RTL. Since 2012, this show is aired by the Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4. The format was invented by the music producer Erwin Kiennast and Norman Weichselbaum.
Every year, ten children from Germany, Austria and a case of Switzerland sing a current pop hit for which Norman Weichselbaum has written a new German text. The winner determines the TV audience via voting.
From season 1–15 there were also duets.
The Kiddy Contest 1996 took place on a Saturday morning in November 1996. During the Kiddy Contest 1995 and 1996 a semifinals took place over the course of several weeks for the ORF / Confetti TiVi program "Saturday Game" moderated by Edith Rolles two performers.
In 1997, there was a separate Kiddy contest semifinals, also shown again on Saturdays at Confetti Tivi for five weeks. It was moderated by Elmer Rossnegger. As of 1998 there was no longer a semifinals on TV, the preselection took place by a professional jury. Since 2015 the semifinalshows have been broadcast on the two Saturdays before the final. On both days, ten children each, who sing in the duet, five of them come to the final.
In addition to broadcasting in ORF 1, the Kiddy Contest has also been broadcast several times on German television, which means that it is also freely available on the Astra 1 satellite throughout Europe. In the years 2000 to 2002, the ZDF was a co-organizer of the show, where by in these years half of the participants from Germany came, and the show was shown on ZDF. In the years 2001 and 2002 she was also transferred to KiKA. After 2002 the ZDF decided not to participate any more, whereby the Kiddy Contest 2003 became purely Austrian production.
Already in 2004 the ORF again found a new partner, this time it was the German private Super RTL. At the Sendeschema changed nothing, where by Super RTL was also forced to renounce the otherwise usual advertising interruptions during the show. The cooperation with Super RTL lasted until 2006.
The Kiddy Contest 2007 was again only a single production of ORF. The previous specials in the lunch program were replaced by the series "Kiddy Contest – Das Camp", which was broadcast for several days in the afternoon program of ORF 1. The series documented the participation of the participants of the Kiddy Contest 2007 in Schloss Hof in Lower Austria.
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