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The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 25 March 1972 at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and presented by Moira Shearer. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who staged the event after Script error: No such module "Lang". (TMC), which had won the Template:Escyr for Template:Esccnty, declined hosting responsibilities, citing the lack of a suitable venue, technical limitations, and related costs. As the Spanish and German broadcasters, which had placed second and third in 1971 respectively, also declined the offer to host, the BBC stepped in to stage the 1972 contest after no other offers were received. It was the first, and Template:As of only, edition of the contest to take place in Scotland. Broadcasters from a total of eighteen countriesTemplate:Sndthe same line-up as had competed the previous yearTemplate:Sndparticipated.

The winner was Template:Esccnty, represented by the song "Script error: No such module "Lang".", composed by Template:Ill and Leo Leandros under the pseudonym Mario Panas, written by Leandros and Template:Ill, and performed by Vicky Leandros. It was Luxembourg's third contest victory, following wins in Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr. The Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, the Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty rounded out the top five positions, with the UK achieving its eighth runner-up position and Germany placing third for the third year in succession. Template:Esccnty achieved its best result to date, with a seventh-place finish, while Template:Esccnty placed last for the second year in a row.

Location

A modern photo of the exterior of the Usher Hall on a bright sunny day

The Usher Hall, Edinburgh – host venue of the 1972 contest

The 1972 contest was held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. It was the fourth time that the contest was hosted in the UK, following the Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, and Template:Escyr editions.^[1] It was the first contest held in the UK to be staged outside of London, and the first, and Template:As of only, contest to be held in Scotland, as well as the only contest held in the UK to be staged outside of England.^[2]^[3]^[4] The selected venue was the Usher Hall, a concert hall opened in 1914 and named after Andrew Usher, a whisky distiller who donated to the city specifically to fund a new concert venue.^[5]^[6]Template:Sfn Around 1,500 people were present in the audience during the contest.Template:Sfn

Host selection

The Template:Escyr was won by Template:Esccnty, represented by Script error: No such module "Lang". (TMC), with the song "Script error: No such module "Lang"." performed by Séverine, which according to Eurovision tradition made TMC the presumptive host of the 1972 contest.^[2]^[7] This was the first time that Monaco had won the contest and following its win the Monégasque broadcaster initially announced its intention to stage the event in 1972, which would have been the first time the contest was staged in the principality.^[6]^[8] As Monaco had no suitable television studio or contest venue large enough to stage the event, TMC proposed hosting the contest at an outdoor location in June 1972;^[9] an indoor venue was also reportedly already under construction, which TMC had hoped to get accelerated in time to host the contest.^[6]Template:Sfn

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) held parallel discussions with other member broadcasters to determine other suitable options in other countries; those of Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty, which had placed second and third in 1972, had let the EBU know that they would decline the offer to stage the event if asked, with Script error: No such module "Lang". (TVE) having held the contest only two years prior in Template:Escyr, and ARD believing that hosting both the song contest and leading broadcast responsibilities for the upcoming Olympic Games in Munich would be too much for the broadcaster in one year.^[6]Template:Sfn^[10] The BBC had also suggested that France's Script error: No such module "Lang". (ORTF) could take on the contest, given the French had lost out on staging the Template:Escyr to the Netherlands following a draw between them and Dutch Script error: No such module "Lang". (NTS) following the Template:Escyr.Template:Sfn^[11] The EBU subsequently declared that the contest had to be held in either March or April, precluding TMC's outdoor option, and by July 1971 citing the lack of a suitable venue, as well as technical limitations at the broadcaster and the costs of staging the event, TMC declared they would be unable to stage the event.Template:Sfn^[9]^[10] At this stage no firm offers to stage the contest had been received by the EBU from other member broadcasters, leading to the organisation to "call loudly" for volunteers, and it looked quite possible that the contest could be cancelled if no offers were to materialise.^[6]Template:Sfn^[10] The BBC ultimately put in an offer to stage the event, with Edinburgh and Blackpool considered as potential host cities,Template:Sfn and on 20 September 1971 it was publicly announced by Bill Cotton, the BBC's head of light entertainment, that the contest would be staged in the UK by the BBC if no other offers were received.^[12]^[13] On 19 October the Usher Hall in Edinburgh was confirmed publicly as the contest venue, with 25 March solidified as the date of the event; in his announcement, Cotton expressed a desire for the first time to bring a UK-held contest outside of London, which had been the host city on all three occasions that the event had been held in the UK.^[14]^[15]

Participants

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A black-and-white photograph of the 1972 line-up of the New Seekers performing on a television studio set

The New Seekers, the first group to represent the Template:Esccnty, had previously achieved massive worldwide success, including with the song "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)".^[16]

The same eighteen countries which had participated in 1971 returned for the 1972 contest.^[2]Template:Sfn

Several of the performing artists had participated in previous editions of the Eurovision Song Contest. Greek singer Vicky Leandros representing Template:Esccnty, had previously represented the nation Template:Esccnty; Carlos Mendes had represented Template:Esccnty; the Family Four, who had represented Template:Esccnty, returned for a second consecutive year; and Tereza Kesovija representing Template:Esccnty, had previously represented Template:Esccnty.^[6]^[17]Template:Sfn Additionally, Claude Lombard, who had represented Template:Esccnty, returned as a backing singer for the Belgian entry at this year's event.^[6] Template:Esccnty was the first, and Template:As of only, song in the contest's history to have been performed in the Irish language.^[2]Template:Sfn

Eurovision Song Contest 1972 participants^[18]Template:Sfn
Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	ORF	The Milestones	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	German	Template:Hlist	Erich Kleinschuster
Template:Esc	RTB	Template:Ill	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	French	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	YLE	Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Finnish	Template:Hlist	Ossi Runne
Template:Esc	ORTF	Betty Mars	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	French	Frédéric Botton	Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc	SFB Template:Efn	Mary Roos	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	German	Template:Hlist	Paul Kuhn
Template:Esc	RTÉ	Sandie Jones	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Irish	Template:Hlist	Colman Pearce
Template:Esc	RAI	Nicola Di Bari	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Italian	Template:Hlist	Gian Franco Reverberi
Template:Esc	CLT	Vicky Leandros	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	French	Template:Hlist	Klaus Munro
Template:Esc	MBA	Helen and Joseph	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Maltese	Template:Hlist	Charles Camilleri
Template:Esc	TMC	Template:Ill and Template:Ill	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	French	Template:Hlist	Raymond Bernard
Template:Esc	NOS	Sandra and Andres	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Harry van Hoof
Template:Esc	NRK	Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Norwegian	Template:Hlist	Carsten Klouman
Template:Esc	RTP	Carlos Mendes	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Portuguese	Template:Hlist	Richard Hill
Template:Esc	TVE	Jaime Morey	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Spanish	Template:Hlist	Augusto Algueró
Template:Esc	SR	The Family Four	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	Swedish	Template:Ill	Mats Olsson
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Véronique Müller	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	French	Template:Hlist	Jean-Pierre Festi
Template:Esc	BBC	The New Seekers	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	English	Template:Hlist	David Mackay
Template:Esc	JRT	Tereza	"Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".)	Serbo-Croatian	Template:Hlist	Nikica Kalogjera

Production and format

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).^[2]Template:Sfn Bill Cotton served as executive producer, Terry Hughes served as producer and director, Brian Tregidden served as designer, and Malcolm Lockyer served as musical director, leading the 44-piece BBC Radio Orchestra.^[2]Template:Sfn Template:Sfn A separate musical director could be nominated by each participating delegation to lead the orchestra during its country's performance, with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.Template:Sfn On behalf of the EBU, the event was overseen by Clifford Brown as scrutineer.Template:Sfn^[19]Template:Sfn The contest was presented by the Scottish ballet dancer and actor Moira Shearer.^[2]Template:Sfn

Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented.^[7]^[20] A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance.^[7]^[21]

The voting system introduced at the previous year's contest returned: each participating broadcaster appointed two individualsTemplate:Sndone aged between 16 and 25, the other between 26 and 55, and with at least 10 years between their agesTemplate:Sndwho awarded each song a score between one and five votes, except for the song from their own country. For this year's edition the jurors were kept in a separate location during the contest, and were based within the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle where they followed the contest on television. After each country had performed they were required to record their votes, so that they could not be altered later, and during the voting sequence were shown on screen, with the scores being announced by the jurors themselves in blocks of three countries.^[6]Template:Sfn Template:Sfn^[22] The voting sequence was projected in black-and-white onto an Eidophor screen in the Usher Hall for the benefit of the audience;Template:Sfn^[22] this screen was also used during the contest itself to introduce the artists and song titles, and was the first time that video wall technology was introduced to the contest.^[2]^[22]

Rehearsals in the contest venue began on 21 March with presenter Moira Shearer.Template:Sfn The competing delegations took part rehearsals beginning on 22 March, with each country having an initial 50-minute slot with the orchestra in casual dress.^[6]Template:Sfn Countries took to the stage in the order in which they would perform during the contest over two days, with the first eight rehearsing on 22 March and the remaining ten rehearsing on 23 March; the only exceptions were France and Belgium, who swapped their slots, with Belgium as the second country on stage on 22 March and France the third-last to rehearse on 23 March. A second round of rehearsals was held on 24 March, with each country getting a 20-minute slot, performing in their show outfits and taking to the stage in full performance order. At the same time the jurors were assembled in Edinburgh Castle for a run-through of the voting procedure and to conduct test voting sequences. In the evening of 24 March a full dress rehearsal of the contest was held, including a test voting sequence. Further technical checks and rehearsals with Shearer and the scoreboard were held on the morning of the final, followed by another full dress rehearsal in the afternoon before the live transmission that evening.Template:Sfn

Contest overview

A photograph of Vicky Leandros performing on stage in 2018.

The Greek-born singer Vicky Leandros (pictured in 2018) became the third artist to win the contest for Template:Esccnty.

The contest was held on 25 March 1972, beginning at 21:30 (BST) and lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes.^[2]Template:Sfn Following the confirmation of the eighteen participating countries, the draw to determine the running order (R/O) of the contest was held on 1 December 1971 in London,Template:Sfn and announced by the BBC at the end of December 1971.^[23]^[24]

Following an introduction pre-recorded video montage of various Edinburgh locations, Moira Shearer was played onto the stage by a fanfare composed by the contest's musical director Malcolm Lockyer; this same fanfare had previously been used in the opening title music of the film Dr. Who and the Daleks, for which Lockyer had provided the score.Template:Sfn^[22] The interval entertainment between the competing songs and the voting segment was a 4-minute segment with pre-recorded footage taken from the 1968 Edinburgh Military Tattoo, featuring the massed pipes and drums of eight Scottish regiments marching to "The Inverness Gathering".^[2]Template:Sfn^[22] The prize for the winning artist and songwriters was presented by the previous year's winning artist Séverine;^[22]Template:Sfn before the Monégasque entry a planned camera cut showed Séverine sitting in the audience, however this shot would become somewhat infamous after she was seen glancing down at her watch in apparent boredom.^[6]Template:Sfn

The winner was Template:Esccnty represented by the song "Script error: No such module "Lang".", composed by Template:Ill and Leo Leandros under the pseudonym Mario Panas, with lyrics by Leandros and Template:Ill, and performed by the Greek singer Vicky Leandros.^[17]^[25] It was Luxembourg's third contest victory, following wins in Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty.^[26] Dessca had also provided the lyrics to the previous year's winning song "Script error: No such module "Lang"." for Monaco and thus became the first person to win back-to-back contests and to win for multiple countries.^[2]^[27] Vicky Leandros had previously represented Template:Esccnty, where she had performed mononymously and placed fourth with the song "Script error: No such module "Lang"."; this song went on to become a massive global hit after the contest, particularly following the release of an instrumental version by Paul Mauriat released as "Love Is Blue" which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1968.^[17]^[28] The Template:Esccnty finished in second place for a record-extending eighth time, while Template:Esccnty placed third for the third year in succession. Further down the scoreboard Template:Esccnty in seventh achieved its best-ever result up to that point, while Template:Esccnty finished in last place for the second year in a row.Template:Sfn

Two separate disturbances were reported to have occurred on the evening of the event. Before the contest began, a local headmaster began shouting towards the stage at a BBC producer who was welcoming the audience, complaining that local schoolchildren were unable to attend the event and that they would have appreciated it more than the largely invited audience members. Later on, during the Irish and Spanish songs, another man was seen scattering a substance among the audience close to the Irish delegation, which led to small explosions; this was reported to have been a protest against the commercialisation of the music industry, and led to a partial evacuation of the venue by police and military for a short time.^[3]^[29]^[30]^[31]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972^[32]
R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	107	3
2	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	81	11
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	72	15
4	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	83	10
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	114	2
6	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Benny Borg	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	73	14
7	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	90	7
8	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	88	8
9	Template:Esc	Helen and Joseph	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	48	18
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Kim Floor	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	78	12
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	100	5
12	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	92	6
13	Template:Esc	Tereza	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	87	9
14	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	75	13
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Peter MacLane	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	65	16
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	55	17
17	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	128	1
18	Template:Esc	Sandra and Andres	"Script error: No such module "Lang"."	106	4

Detailed voting results

Jury voting was used to determine the votes awarded by all countries.Template:Sfn The announcement of the results from each country's two jury members was conducted in the order in which their nation performed; the jurors were shown on camera when presenting their scores, with each juror using small boards in front of their desks with numbers 1 to 5 which they flipped up to reveal their votes for the country being awarded. The results of three countries at a time were totalled and presented as one score, with all eighteen countries receiving their scores before moving on to the next three countries to award their scores: e.g. in the first round of voting the scores of the German, French and Irish juries were revealed together, which were announced as 14 votes for Germany, 10 votes for France, and so on until the Netherlands received the final scores from these three countries, with 20 votes; this was then followed by the votes from the Spanish, UK and Norwegian jurors, which awarded their scores starting again for Germany and ending with the Netherlands, with further countries voting in groups of three in the same manner.Template:Sfn^[22] The detailed breakdown of the votes awarded by each country is listed in the tables below, with voting countries listed in the order in which they presented their votes.

Detailed voting results^[33]^[34]
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rowspan="18" Template:Vert header	Germany	107		8	6	9	5	6	6	5	4	5	5	7	5	8	8	7	7	6
France	81	5		5	2	9	7	2	3	5	4	2	3	5	2	6	7	8	6
Ireland	72	4	3		4	4	6	4	3	6	3	4	3	3	5	5	4	6	5
Spain	83	7	5	5		3	8	6	3	4	4	5	3	2	7	8	3	5	5
United Kingdom	114	8	9	6	2		10	4	8	2	7	7	7	9	6	9	4	8	8
Norway	73	4	3	6	5	4		5	2	5	7	3	2	5	4	4	4	6	4
Portugal	90	3	4	7	7	4	2		6	5	2	4	9	4	7	4	7	10	5
Switzerland	88	4	5	6	5	4	7	2		4	7	8	5	5	4	6	4	7	5
Malta	48	3	2	4	2	6	2	2	2		5	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	4
Finland	78	4	3	3	6	5	6	4	3	3		3	3	4	4	5	8	6	8
Austria	100	6	6	6	6	3	5	5	7	5	4		6	8	10	5	4	5	9
Italy	92	4	5	3	2	3	6	7	9	6	6	6		4	8	6	6	6	5
Yugoslavia	87	7	4	5	8	5	4	5	2	4	3	3	2		4	9	8	8	6
Sweden	75	5	3	5	3	3	5	4	2	4	5	4	3	7		5	7	5	5
Monaco	65	4	3	4	3	5	6	2	2	5	5	3	3	4	3		4	4	5
Belgium	55	2	3	4	2	5	2	3	3	5	4	2	3	2	2	4		6	3
Luxembourg	128	9	8	9	2	10	8	7	6	4	6	8	9	10	8	7	8		9
Netherlands	106	6	6	8	8	9	8	5	6	3	9	6	3	9	6	5	2	7

10 votes

The below table summarises where the potential maximum of 10 votes were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold. Luxembourg received the maximum score of 10 votes from two of the voting countries, and Austria, Portugal and the United Kingdom received one set of 10 votes each.^[33]^[34]

Distribution of 10 votes awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 1972^[33]^[34]
N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 10 votes
2	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc
1	Template:Esc	Template:Esc
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Broadcasts

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. 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.^[21]

The 1972 contest was the first to be broadcast in Asia, with the contest reportedly bought for transmission by broadcasters in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.^[2] A global audience of 400 million was expected, and in addition to the participating countries and the previously mentioned Asian nations the contest was also reportedly broadcast by EBU member broadcasters in Iceland, Israel, Morocco and Tunisia, by OIRT member broadcasters in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania via Intervision, and in Brazil, Chile and Zaire.^[35]^[36]^[37] Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann	^[38]^[39]
Template:Flagu	RTB	RTB	Paule Herreman	^[40]
	RTB	RTB 1	Template:N/A
	BRT	BRT	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	YLE	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:N/A	^[41]
		Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:Ill
		Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	ORTF	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Pierre Tchernia	^[42]
Template:Flagu	ARD	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:Ill	^[43]^[44]
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ	Mike Murphy	^[45]
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ Radio	Liam Devally and Kevin Roche	^[45]
Template:Flagu	RAI	Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:Ill	^[46]^[47]
Template:Flagu	CLT	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Jacques Navadic	^[48]^[49]
Template:Flagu	MBA	MTS, National Network	Norman Hamilton	^[50]^[51]
Template:Flagu	NOS	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Pim Jacobs	^[52]
Template:Flagu	NRK	Script error: No such module "Lang"., NRK Template:Efn	Roald Øyen	^[53]
Template:Flagu	RTP	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:N/A	^[54]
Template:Flagu	TVE	TVE 1	Julio Rico	^[55]
	RNE	Script error: No such module "Lang".	Template:N/A	^[56]
	RNE	Centro Emisor del Atlántico	Template:N/A	^[57]
	Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn		Template:N/A	^[58]
Template:Flagu	SR	TV1	Template:Ill	Template:Sfn^[59]
Template:Flagu	SR	SR P3	Björn Bjelfvenstam	^[60]
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Template:Ill	^[61]
		TSR	Template:Ill	^[62]
		TSI	Template:N/A	^[63]
		DRS 1 Template:Efn	Template:N/A	^[64]
		RSR 2	Robert Burnier	^[65]
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC1	Tom Fleming	^[66]
	BBC	BBC Radio 2 Template:Efn	Pete Murray	^[67]
	BFBS	BFBS Radio Template:Efn	Terry James	Template:Sfn^[68]
Template:Flagu	JRT	Script error: No such module "Lang"., TV Zagreb 1	Oliver Mlakar	^[69]^[70]^[71]
		TV Koper-Capodistria	Template:N/A	^[72]
		TV Ljubljana 1	Template:N/A	^[73]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	Rede Tupi	TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro	rowspan="2" Template:N/A	^[74]
Template:Flagu	Rede Tupi	TV Paraná	^[75]
Template:Flagu	ČST	Template:Ill, Template:Ill Template:Efn	Blažena Kočtúchová	^[76]
Template:Flagu	EIRT	EIRT	Template:N/A	^[77]
Template:Flagu	MTV	MTV Template:Efn	Template:N/A	^[78]
Template:Flagu	RÚV	Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn	Björn Matthíasson	^[79]
Template:Flagu	TVR	Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn	Template:N/A	^[80]

Notes and references

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References

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Bibliography

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Eurovision Song Contest 1972: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 09:30, 8 November 2025

Contents

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 {{Infobox song contest
-| name        = Eurovision Song Contest
+| name = Eurovision Song Contest
-| year        = 1972
+| year = 1972
-| logo        = ESC 1972 logo.png
+| logo = ESC 1972 logo.png
-| final       = 25 March 1972
+| alt =
-| presenters  = [[Moira Shearer]]
+| final = {{start date|1972|03|25|df=y}}
+| venue = [[Usher Hall]]<br />Edinburgh, United Kingdom
+| organiser = [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU)
+| scrutineer = [[Clifford Brown (director)|Clifford Brown]]
+| host_broadcaster = [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC)
+| producer = [[Terry Hughes (director)|Terry Hughes]]
+| execproducer = [[Bill Cotton]]
+| presenter = [[Moira Shearer]]
 | musdirector = [[Malcolm Lockyer]]
-| director    = [[Terry Hughes (director)|Terry Hughes]]
+| entries = 18
-| scrutineer  = [[Clifford Brown (director)|Clifford Brown]]
+| vote = Two-member juries from each country; each juror scored each song between one and five
-| exproducer  = [[Bill Cotton]]
+| winner = {{esc|Luxembourg|y=1972}}<br />"{{lang|fr|[[Après toi]]|i=unset}}"
-| winner      = {{esc|Luxembourg|y=1972}}<br />"{{lang|fr|[[Après toi]]|i=unset}}"
+<!-- Map legend colours -->
-| vote        = Two-member juries from each country; each juror scored each song between one and five
-| host        = [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC)
-| venue       = [[Usher Hall]]<br />Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
-| entries     = 18
-| debut       = None
-| return      = None
-| nonreturn   = None
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-The '''Eurovision Song Contest 1972''' was the 17th edition of the [[Eurovision Song Contest]]. It took place in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, United Kingdom and was organised by the [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) and host broadcaster [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC), who agreed to stage the event after the Monégasque broadcaster [[Télé Monte Carlo]] (TMC), who won in {{escyr|1971}}, was unable to meet the demands of hosting the event and could not find a suitable venue. The contest was held at the [[Usher Hall]] on 25 March 1972 and was hosted by Scottish ballet dancer [[Moira Shearer]]. Eighteen countries took part in the contest, the same number as the previous year.
+The '''Eurovision Song Contest 1972''' was the 17th edition of the [[Eurovision Song Contest]], held on 25 March 1972 at the [[Usher Hall]] in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and presented by [[Moira Shearer]]. It was organised by the [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) and host broadcaster the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC), who staged the event after {{lang|fr|[[Télé Monte-Carlo]]|i=no}} (TMC), which had won the {{escyr|1971||1971 contest}} for {{esccnty|Monaco|y=1971}}, declined hosting responsibilities, citing the lack of a suitable venue, technical limitations, and related costs. As the Spanish and German broadcasters, which had placed second and third in 1971 respectively, also declined the offer to host, the BBC stepped in to stage the 1972 contest after no other offers were received. It was the first, and {{as of|2025|lc=y}} only, edition of the contest to take place in [[Scotland]]. Broadcasters from a total of eighteen countries{{snd}}the same line-up as had competed the previous year{{snd}}participated.
-This contest marked the first time that the event was hosted in [[Scotland]]. Prior to 1972, when the BBC hosted the contest in {{Escyr|1960}}, {{Escyr|1963}}, and {{Escyr|1968}}, it had always chosen a venue in London. However, for the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, the BBC broke this trend and chose to host the competition in the Scottish capital, marking the first time that London had not been chosen.<ref name="ESC 1972" /> The 1972 contest also marked the first time that the event was broadcast live in Asia, with viewers in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Thailand able to watch the show on television for the first time. The 1972 contest also marked the first time that a video wall was used to present song titles and artists prior to their performance.<ref name="ESC 1972" />
+The winner was {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1972}}, represented by the song "{{lang|fr|[[Après toi]]|i=unset}}", composed by {{ill|Klaus Munro|de}} and [[Leo Leandros]] under the pseudonym Mario Panas, written by Leandros and {{ill|Yves Dessca|fr}}, and performed by [[Vicky Leandros]]. It was Luxembourg's third contest victory, following wins in {{escyr|1961}} and {{escyr|1965}}. The {{esccnty|United Kingdom|y=1972}}, {{esccnty|Germany|y=1972}}, the {{esccnty|Netherlands|y=1972}} and {{esccnty|Austria|y=1972}} rounded out the top five positions, with the UK achieving its eighth runner-up position and Germany placing third for the third year in succession. {{esccnty|Portugal|y=1972}} achieved its best result to date, with a seventh-place finish, while {{esccnty|Malta|y=1972}} placed last for the second year in a row.
-The winner was {{Esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1972}} with the song "{{lang|fr|[[Après toi]]|i=unset}}", performed by [[Vicky Leandros]], with lyrics by Yves Dessca, and music composed by Mario Panas (which was the writing pseudonym of Vicky's father Leo Leandros). "{{lang|fr|Après toi|i=unset}}" became the winner with the lowest percentage of the total vote, winning with just 8.30% of the votes available. Yves Dessca also wrote "{{lang|fr|[[Un banc, un arbre, une rue]]|i=unset}}" that had won the previous edition, and became the second person to win the contest twice, the first person to win for two different countries and the first person to win two years in a row.<ref name="ReferenceA">O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 {{ISBN|978-1-84442-994-3}}</ref> {{Esccnty|Germany}} finished in third place for the third consecutive year, equalling their highest placement from the previous two editions.
 == Location ==
-[[File:Usher Hall, Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|left|Usher Hall, Edinburgh – host venue of the 1972 contest.]]
+[[File:Usher Hall, Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|220px|left|alt=A modern photo of the exterior of the Usher Hall on a bright sunny day|The [[Usher Hall]], Edinburgh – host venue of the 1972 contest]]
-Following {{Esccnty|Monaco}}'s win at the {{escyr|1971||1971 contest}} in [[Dublin]], with the song "{{lang|fr|[[Un banc, un arbre, une rue]]|i=unset}}" performed by [[Séverine (singer)|Séverine]], the winning broadcaster [[Télé Monte Carlo]] (TMC) planned to organise the 1972 contest as an open-air event, setting the date in June rather than early spring.<ref name="eurotvmo72">{{cite web|url=https://eurovision.tv/story/seeking-out-more-about-the-1972-contest|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107130125/https://eurovision.tv/story/seeking-out-more-about-the-1972-contest|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2017|title=Seeking out more about the 1972 contest? &#124; News &#124; Eurovision Song Contest |publisher=Eurovision.tv |date=25 March 2014 |access-date=29 October 2016}}</ref> However, due to a lack of funding, TMC sought help from the French public broadcaster, {{lang|fr|[[Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française]]|i=no}} (ORTF), which accepted to organise the contest. Because TMC wanted the contest to be held in Monaco while ORTF wanted it in France, negotiations never came through.<ref name="oconnor48">{{Cite book|title=The Eurovision Song Contest. 50 Years. The Official History|author=John Kennedy O'Connor|publisher=Carlton Books Limited|location=London|year=2005|page=48}}</ref> In July 1971, TMC informed the [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) that it was unable to organise the 1972 contest. The EBU asked {{esccnty|Spain}}'s {{lang|es|[[Televisión Española]]|i=no}} (TVE) and {{esccnty|Germany}}'s [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]], which respectively finished second and third at the 1971 contest, but both broadcasters declined to host the 1972 contest.<ref name="eurotvmo72"/><ref name=":1">{{cite news |title=BBC organiseert songfestival '72 |trans-title=BBC to host Eurovision Song Contest '72 |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMSARO03:259087018:mpeg21:p00007 |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=[[Het Parool|Het Rotterdams Parool]] |date=21 September 1971 |language=nl |location=[[Rotterdam]], Netherlands |page=7 |via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref>
+The 1972 contest was held in [[Edinburgh]], United Kingdom. It was the fourth time that the contest was hosted in the UK, following the {{escyr|1960}}, {{escyr|1963}}, and {{escyr|1968}} editions.<ref name="UK">{{Cite web |title=United Kingdom – Participation history |url=https://eurovision.tv/country/united-kingdom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620171644/https://eurovision.tv/country/united-kingdom |archive-date=20 June 2022 |access-date=11 July 2025 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU)}}</ref> It was the first contest held in the UK to be staged outside of London, and the first, and {{as of|2025|lc=y}} only, contest to be held in [[Scotland]], as well as the only contest held in the UK to be staged outside of [[England]].<ref name="ESC1972" /><ref name="Record2">{{cite news |last1=Dalgetty |first1=Lee |last2=Awale |first2=Ambarish |title=The one time Eurovision came to Scotland and ended with police on the scene |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/one-time-eurovision-came-scotland-35221897 |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]] |date=14 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dwelly |first1=Jamie |title=Every time the UK has hosted Eurovision |url=https://www.history.co.uk/articles/every-time-the-uk-has-hosted-eurovision |publisher=[[History (European TV channel)|Sky History]] |access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref> The selected venue was the [[Usher Hall]], a concert hall opened in 1914 and named after [[Andrew Usher]], a [[whisky]] distiller who donated to the city specifically to fund a new concert venue.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.usherhall.co.uk/about-us/history |publisher=[[Usher Hall]] |access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref><ref name="seeking">{{cite web |title=Seeking out more about the 1972 contest? |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/seeking-out-more-about-the-1972-contest |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |access-date=11 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107130125/https://eurovision.tv/story/seeking-out-more-about-the-1972-contest |archive-date=7 November 2017 |date=25 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}} Around 1,500 people were present in the audience during the contest.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}
-The event was eventually organised by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC) in [[Edinburgh]], making it the first of five times that the BBC had chosen a venue outside London with the {{escyr|1974}}, {{escyr|1982}}, {{escyr|1998}}, and {{escyr|2023}} contests held in [[Brighton]], [[Harrogate]], [[Birmingham]], and [[Liverpool]] respectively. It is also the only time that the contest has been held in [[Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972 |website=eurovision.tv |access-date=17 July 2024}}</ref> It is the only Eurovision Song Contest hosted in the United Kingdom to have been held outside England.
+=== Host selection ===
+The {{escyr|1971||1971 contest}} was won by {{esccnty|Monaco|y=1971}}, represented by {{lang|fr|[[Télé Monte-Carlo]]|i=unset}} (TMC), with the song "{{lang|fr|[[Un banc, un arbre, une rue]]|i=unset}}" performed by [[Séverine (singer)|Séverine]], which according to Eurovision tradition made TMC the presumptive host of the 1972 contest.<ref name="ESC1972">{{Cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531081730/https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |access-date=11 July 2025 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU)}}</ref><ref name="HowItWorks">{{Cite web |date=18 May 2019 |title=How the Eurovision Song Contest works |url=https://eurovision.tv/about/how-it-works |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531032850/https://eurovision.tv/about/how-it-works |archive-date=31 May 2022 |access-date=11 July 2025 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |language=en-gb}}</ref> This was the first time that Monaco had won the contest and following its win the Monégasque broadcaster initially announced its intention to stage the event in 1972, which would have been the first time the contest was staged in the principality.<ref name="seeking" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Monaco – Participation history |url=https://eurovision.tv/country/monaco |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921190342/https://eurovision.tv/country/monaco |archive-date=21 September 2022 |access-date=11 July 2025 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU)}}</ref> As Monaco had no suitable television studio or contest venue large enough to stage the event, TMC proposed hosting the contest at an outdoor location in June 1972;<ref name="Post">{{cite news |title=Song contest is homeless |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-post-song-contest-is-homeless/176559066/ |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[Nottingham Evening Post|Evening Post]] |date=17 July 1971 |location=[[Nottingham]], United Kingdom |page=8 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> an indoor venue was also reportedly already under construction, which TMC had hoped to get accelerated in time to host the contest.<ref name="seeking" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}
-The [[Usher Hall]], the venue for the 1972 contest, is a [[concert hall]], situated on Lothian Road, in the west end of the city. It has hosted concerts and events since its construction in 1914 and can hold approximately 2,900<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/149973|title=Geograph:: The Usher Hall, Edinburgh (C) Kevin Rae|website=geograph.org.uk}}</ref> people in its recently restored auditorium, which is well loved by performers due to its acoustics. The Hall is flanked by The [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]] on the right and The [[Traverse Theatre]] on the left. [[Historic Scotland]] has registered the Hall with Category A listed building status.
+The [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) held parallel discussions with other member broadcasters to determine other suitable options in other countries; those of {{esccnty|Spain}} and {{esccnty|Germany}}, which had placed second and third in 1972, had let the EBU know that they would decline the offer to stage the event if asked, with {{lang|es|[[Televisión Española]]|i=unset}} (TVE) having held the contest only two years prior in {{escyr|1969}}, and [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]] believing that hosting both the song contest and leading broadcast responsibilities for the upcoming [[1972 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games in Munich]] would be too much for the broadcaster in one year.<ref name="seeking" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}<ref name="Record1">{{cite news |last1=Wishart |first1=Ruth |title=A Eurovision win may break the bank at Monte Carlo |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-a-eurovision-win-may-break/176559171/ |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]] |date=21 July 1971 |location=[[Glasgow]], United Kingdom |page=15 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The BBC had also suggested that France's {{lang|fr|[[Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française]]|i=unset}} (ORTF) could take on the contest, given the French had lost out on staging the {{escyr|1970||1970 contest}} to the Netherlands following a [[Drawing lots (decision making)|draw]] between them and Dutch {{lang|nl|[[Nederlandse Televisie Stichting]]|i=unset}} (NTS) following the {{escyr|1969||four-way tie for first place in 1969}}.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Escudero |first1=Victor M. |title=Happy 50th Anniversary, Eurovision 1970! |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/happy-50th-anniversary-1970-eurovision |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |access-date=11 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505124432/https://eurovision.tv/story/happy-50th-anniversary-1970-eurovision |archive-date=5 May 2020 |date=29 April 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The EBU subsequently declared that the contest had to be held in either March or April, precluding TMC's outdoor option, and by July 1971 citing the lack of a suitable venue, as well as technical limitations at the broadcaster and the costs of staging the event, TMC declared they would be unable to stage the event.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}<ref name="Post" /><ref name="Record1" /> At this stage no firm offers to stage the contest had been received by the EBU from other member broadcasters, leading to the organisation to "call loudly" for volunteers, and it looked quite possible that the contest could be cancelled if no offers were to materialise.<ref name="seeking" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}<ref name="Record1" /> The BBC ultimately put in an offer to stage the event, with Edinburgh and [[Blackpool]] considered as potential host cities,{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}} and on 20 September 1971 it was publicly announced by [[Bill Cotton]], the BBC's head of light entertainment, that the contest would be staged in the UK by the BBC if no other offers were received.<ref name="Manchester">{{cite news |title=Britain host to Eurosong contest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-britain-host-to/176559273/ |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[Manchester Evening News]] |date=21 September 1971 |location=[[Manchester]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Van Daalen |first1=Pierre |title=Monaco wil en kan niet: Platenmaatschappij betaalt het Eurovisie-songfestival |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011196829:mpeg21:p002 |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[De Telegraaf]] |date=21 September 1971 |location=[[Amsterdam]], Netherlands |language=nl |trans-title=Monaco doesn't want to and can't: Record company pays for the Eurovision Song Contest |via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref> On 19 October the Usher Hall in Edinburgh was confirmed publicly as the contest venue, with 25 March solidified as the date of the event; in his announcement, Cotton expressed a desire for the first time to bring a UK-held contest outside of London, which had been the host city on all three occasions that the event had been held in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |title=Europop goes north of the border |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/southern-daily-echo-europop-goes-north-o/176559337/ |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[Southern Daily Echo]] |date=19 October 1971 |location=[[Southampton]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Songfestival in Edinburgh |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011196853:mpeg21:p002 |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[De Telegraaf]] |date=20 October 1971 |location=[[Amsterdam]], Netherlands |page=2 |language=nl |trans-title=Song Contest in Edinburgh |via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref>
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-The same countries that participated in the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1971|1971 contest]] were present this year.
+[[File:Repetities Grand Gala du Disque Populaire in RAI, Amsterdam, The New Seekers, Bestanddeelnr 925-4081.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=A black-and-white photograph of the 1972 line-up of the New Seekers performing on a television studio set|[[The New Seekers]], the first group to represent the {{esccnty|United Kingdom|y=1972}}, had previously achieved massive worldwide success, including with the song "[[I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)]]".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Strachan |first1=Graeme |title=Perth's Eve Graham arrived at Eurovision looking to Beg, Steal or Borrow victory for The New Seekers |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/4968730/new-seekers-eve-graham-eurovision-1972/ |access-date=13 July 2025 |work=[[The Courier (Dundee)|The Courier]] |date=11 May 2024}}</ref>]]
+The same eighteen countries which had participated in 1971 returned for the 1972 contest.<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|O'Connor|2010|pp=48–51}}
-Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: [[Vicky Leandros]] had represented {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1967|t=Luxembourg in 1967}}, [[Carlos Mendes (singer)|Carlos Mendes]] had represented {{esccnty|Portugal|y=1968|t=Portugal in 1968}}, and [[Family Four]] had represented {{esccnty|Sweden|y=1971|t=Sweden in 1971}}. In addition, [[Tereza Kesovija]] representing Yugoslavia, had represented {{esccnty|Monaco|y=1966|t=Monaco in 1966}}.
+Several of the performing artists had participated in previous editions of the Eurovision Song Contest. Greek singer [[Vicky Leandros]] representing {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1972}}, had previously represented the nation {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1967|t=in 1967}}; [[Carlos Mendes (singer)|Carlos Mendes]] had represented {{esccnty|Portugal|y=1968|t=Portugal in 1968}}; the [[Family Four]], who had represented {{esccnty|Sweden|y=1971|t=Sweden in 1971}}, returned for a second consecutive year; and [[Tereza Kesovija]] representing {{esccnty|Yugoslavia|y=1972}}, had previously represented {{esccnty|Monaco|y=1966|t=Monaco in 1966}}.<ref name="seeking" /><ref name="10lux">{{cite web |last1=Escudero |first1=Victor M. |title=Luxembourg: Small in size, big in Eurovision |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/top-10-entries-from-luxembourg |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |access-date=12 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119104607/https://eurovision.tv/story/top-10-entries-from-luxembourg |archive-date=19 November 2017 |date=19 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}} Additionally, [[Claude Lombard]], who had represented {{esccnty|Belgium|y=1968|t=Belgium in 1968}}, returned as a backing singer for the Belgian entry at this year's event.<ref name="seeking" /> {{esccnty|Ireland|y=1972|t=Ireland's entry}} was the first, and {{as of|2025|lc=y}} only, song in the contest's history to have been performed in the [[Irish language]].<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}}
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-|+ Eurovision Song Contest 1972 participants<ref>{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 – Participants |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/participants |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523073746/https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/participants |archive-date=23 May 2023 |access-date=6 July 2023 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union}}</ref><ref name="Roxburgh" />
+|+ Eurovision Song Contest 1972 participants<ref>{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 – Participants |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/participants |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523073746/https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/participants |archive-date=23 May 2023 |access-date=6 July 2023 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union}}</ref>{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–98}}
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-| [[Sender Freies Berlin|SFB]]{{efn|On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Alle deutschen ESC-Acts und ihre Titel |trans-title=All German ESC acts and their songs |url=https://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/vorentscheid386_glossaryPage-25.html |website=www.eurovision.de |publisher=ARD |access-date=12 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612084259/https://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/vorentscheid386_glossaryPage-25.html |archive-date=12 June 2023 |language=de |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
+| [[Sender Freies Berlin|SFB]]{{efn|On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alle deutschen ESC-Acts und ihre Titel |trans-title=All German ESC acts and their songs |url=https://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/Alle-deutschen-ESC-Acts-und-ihre-Titel,vorentscheid386.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607114244/https://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/Alle-deutschen-ESC-Acts-und-ihre-Titel,vorentscheid386.html |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=3 August 2025 |publisher=[[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]] |language=de}}</ref>}}
 | [[Mary Roos]]
 | "{{lang|de|Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben|i=unset}}"
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+| {{hlist|Albert Cassola|Charles Camilleri}}
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+== Production and format ==
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+The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was produced by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC).<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=113–116}} [[Bill Cotton]] served as executive producer, [[Terry Hughes (director)|Terry Hughes]] served as producer and director, Brian Tregidden served as designer, and [[Malcolm Lockyer]] served as musical director, leading the 44-piece [[BBC Radio Orchestra]].<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=92–93}} A separate musical director could be nominated by each participating delegation to lead the orchestra during its country's performance, with the host musical director also available to [[conducting|conduct]] for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}} On behalf of the EBU, the event was overseen by [[Clifford Brown]] as [[Executive supervisors of the Eurovision Song Contest|scrutineer]].{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=92–93}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Organisers behind the Eurovision Song Contest |date=27 March 2019 |url=https://eurovision.tv/about/organisers |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |access-date=31 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925231140/https://eurovision.tv/about/organisers |archive-date=25 September 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|O'Connor|2010|p=210}} The contest was presented by the Scottish [[ballet dancer]] and actor [[Moira Shearer]].<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}
+Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented.<ref name="HowItWorks" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Luxembourg 1973 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1973 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |access-date=12 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531031318/https://eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1973 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance.<ref name="HowItWorks" /><ref name="Rules">{{Cite web |title=The Rules of the Contest |url=https://eurovision.tv/about/rules |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004011300/https://eurovision.tv/about/rules |archive-date=4 October 2022 |access-date=12 July 2025 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU)}}</ref>
+The voting system introduced at the previous year's contest returned: each participating broadcaster appointed two individuals{{snd}}one aged between 16 and 25, the other between 26 and 55, and with at least 10 years between their ages{{snd}}who awarded each song a score between one and five votes, except for the song from their own country. For this year's edition the jurors were kept in a separate location during the contest, and were based within the Great Hall of [[Edinburgh Castle]] where they followed the contest on television. After each country had performed they were required to record their votes, so that they could not be altered later, and during the voting sequence were shown on screen, with the scores being announced by the jurors themselves in blocks of three countries.<ref name="seeking" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|p=60}}{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=89–92}}<ref name="contestAV">{{Cite AV media |title=Eurovision Song Contest 1972 |date=25 March 1972 |type=Television programme |language=en, fr |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC) |place=[[Edinburgh]], United Kingdom}}</ref> The voting sequence was projected in black-and-white onto an [[Eidophor]] screen in the Usher Hall for the benefit of the audience;{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=89–92}}<ref name="contestAV" /> this screen was also used during the contest itself to introduce the artists and song titles, and was the first time that [[video wall]] technology was introduced to the contest.<ref name="ESC1972" /><ref name="contestAV" />
+Rehearsals in the contest venue began on 21 March with presenter Moira Shearer.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}} The competing delegations took part rehearsals beginning on 22 March, with each country having an initial 50-minute slot with the orchestra in casual dress.<ref name="seeking" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}} Countries took to the stage in the order in which they would perform during the contest over two days, with the first eight rehearsing on 22 March and the remaining ten rehearsing on 23 March; the only exceptions were France and Belgium, who swapped their slots, with Belgium as the second country on stage on 22 March and France the third-last to rehearse on 23 March. A second round of rehearsals was held on 24 March, with each country getting a 20-minute slot, performing in their show outfits and taking to the stage in full performance order. At the same time the jurors were assembled in Edinburgh Castle for a run-through of the voting procedure and to conduct test voting sequences. In the evening of 24 March a full dress rehearsal of the contest was held, including a test voting sequence. Further technical checks and rehearsals with Shearer and the scoreboard were held on the morning of the final, followed by another full dress rehearsal in the afternoon before the live transmission that evening.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}}
 == Contest overview<span class="anchor" id="Results"></span><span class="anchor" id="Participants and results"></span> ==
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+[[File:2018 Vicky Leandros - by 2eight - DSC4679.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A photograph of Vicky Leandros performing on stage in 2018.|The Greek-born singer [[Vicky Leandros]] ''(pictured in 2018)'' became the third artist to win the contest for {{esccnty|Luxembourg}}.]]
+The contest was held on 25 March 1972, beginning at 21:30 ([[British Summer Time|BST]]) and lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes.<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}} Following the confirmation of the eighteen participating countries, the draw to determine the running order (R/O) of the contest was held on 1 December 1971 in London,{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–80}} and announced by the BBC at the end of December 1971.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fifth in song line |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-chronicle-fifth-in-song-line/176559383/ |access-date=13 July 2025 |work=[[Evening Chronicle]] |date=30 December 1971 |location=[[Newcastle upon Tyne]], United Kingdom |page=4 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Eurovision Song Contest draw |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hull-daily-mail-eurovision-song-contest/176559444/ |access-date=13 July 2025 |work=[[Hull Daily Mail]] |date=30 December 1971 |location=[[Kingston upon Hull]], United Kingdom |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
+Following an introduction pre-recorded video montage of various Edinburgh locations, Moira Shearer was played onto the stage by a fanfare composed by the contest's musical director Malcolm Lockyer; this same fanfare had previously been used in the opening title music of the film ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', for which Lockyer had provided the score.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}}<ref name="contestAV" /> The interval entertainment between the competing songs and the voting segment was a 4-minute segment with pre-recorded footage taken from the 1968 [[Edinburgh Military Tattoo]], featuring the massed pipes and drums of eight [[Scottish regiment]]s marching to "The Inverness Gathering".<ref name="ESC1972" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}}<ref name="contestAV" /> The prize for the winning artist and songwriters was presented by the previous year's winning artist [[Séverine (singer)|Séverine]];<ref name="contestAV" />{{sfn|O'Connor|2010|p=216}} before the Monégasque entry a planned camera cut showed Séverine sitting in the audience, however this shot would become somewhat infamous after she was seen glancing down at her watch in apparent boredom.<ref name="seeking" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=80–88}}
+The winner was {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1972}} represented by the song "{{lang|fr|[[Après toi]]|i=unset}}", composed by {{ill|Klaus Munro|de}} and [[Leo Leandros]] under the pseudonym Mario Panas, with lyrics by Leandros and {{ill|Yves Dessca|fr}}, and performed by the Greek singer [[Vicky Leandros]].<ref name="10lux" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 – Vicky Leandros |url=https://eurovision.tv/participant/vicky-leandros |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009133553/https://eurovision.tv/participant/vicky-leandros |archive-date=9 October 2022 |access-date=12 July 2025 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU)}}</ref> It was Luxembourg's third contest victory, following wins in {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1961|t=1961}} and {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1965|t=1965}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Luxembourg – Participation history |url=https://eurovision.tv/country/luxembourg |publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |access-date=12 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531112855/https://eurovision.tv/country/luxembourg |archive-date=31 May 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Dessca had also provided the lyrics to the previous year's winning song "{{lang|fr|[[Un banc, un arbre, une rue]]|i=unset}}" for Monaco and thus became the first person to win back-to-back contests and to win for multiple countries.<ref name="ESC1972" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Eurovision Song Contest, Winner 1972 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0085d4x |website=BBC |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC) |access-date=12 July 2025 |date=2 June 2010}}</ref> Vicky Leandros had previously represented {{esccnty|Luxembourg|y=1967|t=Luxembourg in 1967}}, where she had performed mononymously and placed fourth with the song "{{lang|fr|[[L'amour est bleu]]|i=unset}}"; this song went on to become a massive global hit after the contest, particularly following the release of an instrumental version by [[Paul Mauriat]] released as "Love Is Blue" which topped the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in 1968.<ref name="10lux" /><ref name="Billboard">{{cite web |last1=Bronson |first1=Fred |title=ABBA, The New Seekers & More: Eurovision's Top Charting Songs |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/eurovision-top-charting-songs-abba-the-new-seekers-7370501/ |work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=12 July 2025 |date=14 May 2016}}</ref> The {{esccnty|United Kingdom|y=1972}} finished in second place for a record-extending eighth time, while {{esccnty|Germany|y=1972}} placed third for the third year in succession. Further down the scoreboard {{esccnty|Portugal|y=1972}} in seventh achieved its best-ever result up to that point, while {{esccnty|Malta|y=1972}} finished in last place for the second year in a row.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=89–92}}
+Two separate disturbances were reported to have occurred on the evening of the event. Before the contest began, a local headmaster began shouting towards the stage at a BBC producer who was welcoming the audience, complaining that local schoolchildren were unable to attend the event and that they would have appreciated it more than the largely invited audience members. Later on, during the Irish and Spanish songs, another man was seen scattering a substance among the audience close to the Irish delegation, which led to small explosions; this was reported to have been a protest against the commercialisation of the [[music industry]], and led to a partial evacuation of the venue by police and military for a short time.<ref name="Record2" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wishart |first1=Ruth |title=Eurovision song winner Vicky wants to be a smash hit — in Britain |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-eurovision-song-winner-vick/176588708/ |access-date=13 July 2025 |work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]] |date=27 March 1972 |location=[[Glasgow]], United Kingdom |page=5 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Chemical placed at song contest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/irish-independent-chemical-placed-at-son/176588862/ |access-date=13 July 2025 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |date=27 March 1972 |location=[[Dublin]], Ireland |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tried to upset song contest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/irish-independent-tried-to-upset-song-co/176589021/ |access-date=13 July 2025 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |date=28 March 1972 |location=[[Dublin]], Ireland |page=9 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
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 == Detailed voting results<span class="anchor" id="Scoreboard"></span> ==
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-Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and one aged between 26 and 55, with at least 10 years between their ages. They each scored each song between 1 and 5, other than the song of their own country. They cast their scores immediately after each song was performed and the votes were then collected and counted. For the public voting sequence after the interval act, the jury members were shown on the stage's screen with each lifting a signboard with the number between 1 and 5 for each song, as a visual verification of the scores they had awarded earlier.
+Jury voting was used to determine the votes awarded by all countries.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=89–92}} The announcement of the results from each country's two jury members was conducted in the order in which their nation performed; the jurors were shown on camera when presenting their scores, with each juror using small boards in front of their desks with numbers 1 to 5 which they flipped up to reveal their votes for the country being awarded. The results of three countries at a time were totalled and presented as one score, with all eighteen countries receiving their scores before moving on to the next three countries to award their scores: e.g. in the first round of voting the scores of the German, French and Irish juries were revealed together, which were announced as 14 votes for Germany, 10 votes for France, and so on until the Netherlands received the final scores from these three countries, with 20 votes; this was then followed by the votes from the Spanish, UK and Norwegian jurors, which awarded their scores starting again for Germany and ending with the Netherlands, with further countries voting in groups of three in the same manner.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=89–92}}<ref name="contestAV" /> The detailed breakdown of the votes awarded by each country is listed in the tables below, with voting countries listed in the order in which they presented their votes.
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-|+ Detailed voting results<ref>{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 – Detailed voting results |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/final/results |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409125509/https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/final/results |archive-date=9 April 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – Scoreboard |url=https://eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=288#Scoreboard |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=23 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043107/http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=288#Scoreboard |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
+|+ Detailed voting results<ref name="results">{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 – Detailed voting results |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/final/results |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409125509/https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972/final/results |archive-date=9 April 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="scoreboard">{{cite web |title=Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – Scoreboard |url=https://eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=288#Scoreboard |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=23 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043107/http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=288#Scoreboard |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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 === 10 votes ===
-Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.
+The below table summarises where the potential maximum of 10 votes were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold. Luxembourg received the maximum score of 10 votes from two of the voting countries, and Austria, Portugal and the United Kingdom received one set of 10 votes each.<ref name="results" /><ref name="scoreboard" />
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+|+ Distribution of 10 votes awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 1972<ref name="results" /><ref name="scoreboard" />
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-Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rules of the Contest |date=31 October 2018 |url=https://eurovision.tv/about/rules |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=19 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004011300/https://eurovision.tv/about/rules |archive-date=4 October 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
+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. 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.<ref name="Rules" />
-In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Iceland, Israel, Morocco, and Tunisia; in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania via [[International Radio and Television Organisation|Intervision]]; and Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Zaire. With an estimated global audience of 400 million viewers.<ref name="ESC 1972">{{cite web |title=Edinburgh 1972 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972 |website=eurovision.tv |access-date=13 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="Lisboa">{{cite news |title='A Festa da Vida' hoje na grande festa da Canção Europeia |trans-title='The Feast of Life' today at the great festival of European Song |url=http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=06813.163.25945#!40 |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=[[Diário de Lisboa|DL Show]] |date=25 March 1972 |pages=8–9 |location=[[Lisbon]], Portugal |language=pt |via=Casa Comum}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Eurovision 1972 |url=https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/5gd9qd4x4/pages/28 |access-date=3 December 2024 |work=[[Luxemburger Wort]] |location=[[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg |date=25 March 1972 |language=fr |page=28 |via=[[National Library of Luxembourg]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Televisie en radio |trans-title=Television and radio |url=https://nha.courant.nu/issue/HD/1972-03-25/edition/null/page/11 |access-date=15 December 2024 |work=[[Haarlems Dagblad]] |language=nl |date=25 March 1972 |page=11 |location=[[Haarlem]], Netherlands |via={{ill|North Holland Archive|nl|Noord-Hollands Archief|lt=North Holland Archive}}}}</ref> Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
+The 1972 contest was the first to be broadcast in Asia, with the contest reportedly bought for transmission by broadcasters in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.<ref name="ESC1972" /> A global audience of 400 million was expected, and in addition to the participating countries and the previously mentioned Asian nations the contest was also reportedly broadcast by EBU member broadcasters in Iceland, Israel, Morocco and Tunisia, by [[International Radio and Television Organisation|OIRT]] member broadcasters in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania via [[International Radio and Television Organisation|Intervision]], and in Brazil, Chile and Zaire.<ref>{{cite news |title='A Festa da Vida' hoje na grande festa da Canção Europeia |trans-title='The Feast of Life' today at the great festival of European Song |url=http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=06813.163.25945#!40 |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=[[Diário de Lisboa|DL Show]] |date=25 March 1972 |pages=8–9 |location=[[Lisbon]], Portugal |language=pt |via=Casa Comum}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Eurovision 1972 |url=https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/5gd9qd4x4/pages/28 |access-date=3 December 2024 |work=[[Luxemburger Wort]] |location=[[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg |date=25 March 1972 |language=fr |page=28 |via=[[National Library of Luxembourg]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Televisie en radio |trans-title=Television and radio |url=https://nha.courant.nu/issue/HD/1972-03-25/edition/null/page/11 |access-date=15 December 2024 |work=[[Haarlems Dagblad]] |language=nl |date=25 March 1972 |page=11 |location=[[Haarlem]], Netherlands |via={{ill|North Holland Archive|nl|Noord-Hollands Archief|lt=North Holland Archive}}}}</ref> Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
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 | [[La Une|RTB]]
 | [[Paule Herreman]]
-| style="text-align:center" rowspan="3" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Radio– en TV–programma's van zaterdag 25 maart 1972 |trans-title=Radio and TV programmes of Saturday 25 March 1972 |url=https://uurl.kbr.be/2229656 |url-access=registration |date=25 March 1972 |work=[[De Standaard]] |location=[[Brussels]], Belgium |access-date=11 February 2025 |page=29 |language=nl |via={{ill|BelgicaPress|nl}}}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" rowspan="3" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Radio– en TV–programma's van zaterdag 25 maart 1972 |trans-title=Radio and TV programmes of Saturday 25 March 1972 |url=https://uurl.kbr.be/2229656/p29 |url-access=registration |date=25 March 1972 |work=[[De Standaard]] |location=[[Brussels]], Belgium |access-date=11 February 2025 |page=29 |language=nl |via={{ill|BelgicaPress|nl}}}}</ref>
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 | [[La Première (Belgium)|RTB 1]]
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 | {{lang|de|[[Das Erste|Deutsches Fernsehen]]|i=unset}}
 | {{ill|Hanns Verres|de}}
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{Cite news |title=Der Fernseh-Spiegel |trans-title=The television mirror |url=https://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/staufen1972/0108/image?sid=3d9d7ed115555cc1acec4935c38fb74a |access-date=3 January 2025 |work=Staufener Wochenblatt |date=17–18 March 1972 |location=[[Staufen im Breisgau]], West Germany |page=10 |language=de |via=[[University Library Freiburg]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Weight for it... |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hull-daily-mail-weight-for-it/168365501/ |access-date=19 March 2025 |work=[[Hull Daily Mail]] |date=23 March 1972 |location=[[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], United Kingdom |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Fernsehen am Samstag |trans-title=Television on Saturday |url=https://archiv.ndz.de/resources/cimage/page/15415018/320 |access-date=5 August 2025 |work={{ill|Neue Deister-Zeitung|de}} |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Springe]], West Germany |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250806121210/https://archiv.ndz.de/resources/cimage/page/15415018/320 |archive-date=6 August 2025 |page=18 |language=de |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Weight for it... |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hull-daily-mail-weight-for-it/168365501/ |access-date=19 March 2025 |work=[[Hull Daily Mail]] |date=23 March 1972 |location=[[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], United Kingdom |page=8 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
 |-
 ! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Ireland}}
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 | [[RTÉ One|RTÉ]]
 | [[Mike Murphy (presenter)|Mike Murphy]]
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=TV Today |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1972/0325/Pg023.html |access-date=22 December 2022 |work=[[The Irish Times]] |location=[[Dublin]], Ireland |date=25 March 1972 |page=23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="IE">{{cite news |title=Sandie will be third singin' in Eurovision Contest |work=[[Irish Examiner]] |location=[[Cork (city)|Cork]], Ireland |date=23 March 1972 |quote=Mike Murphy will be RTE's television commentator and the radio commentary will be given by Liam Devally.}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Evening Herald television/radio guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-herald-evening-herald-television/176950478/ |access-date=18 July 2025 |work=[[The Herald (Ireland)|Evening Herald]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=Dublin, Ireland |page=19 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
 |-
 | [[RTÉ Radio 1|RTÉ Radio]]
-| [[Liam Devally]]
+| [[Liam Devally]] and Kevin Roche
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="IE" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Today |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1972/0325/Pg023.html |access-date=22 December 2022 |work=[[The Irish Times]] |location=[[Dublin]], Ireland |date=25 March 1972 |page=23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
 |-
 ! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Italy}}
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 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Televisão |trans-title=Television |url=http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=06813.163.25945#!30 |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=[[Diário de Lisboa]] |date=25 March 1972 |page=30 |location=[[Lisbon]], Portugal |language=pt |via=Casa Comum}}</ref>
 |-
-! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="7" | {{Flagu|Spain|1945}}
+! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="4" | {{Flagu|Spain|1945}}
 | [[Televisión Española|TVE]]
 | [[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|TVE 1]]
 | Julio Rico
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite magazine |title=1a Cadena – Sábado 25 de marzo |trans-title=First Channel – Saturday 25 March |url=https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.do?id=11000960369 |access-date=25 June 2024 |magazine=Tele Pueblo |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Madrid]], Spain |pages=2–3 |language=es |via={{ill|Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica|es}}}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite magazine |title=1a Cadena – Sábado 25 de marzo |trans-title=First Channel – Saturday 25 March |url=https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/en/consulta/registro.do?id=11000960369 |access-date=25 June 2024 |magazine=[[Pueblo (newspaper)|Tele Pueblo]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Madrid]], Spain |pages=2–3 |language=es |via={{ill|Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers|es|Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica}}}}</ref>
 |-
 | rowspan="2" | [[Radio Nacional de España|RNE]]
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 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Programas de radio |trans-title=Radio programmes |url=https://jable.ulpgc.es/viewer.vm?id=6008541&page=12 |work={{ill|El Eco de Canarias|es}} |location=[[Las Palmas]], Spain |page=12 |language=es |date=25 March 1972 |access-date=10 July 2024 |via=[[University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]]}}</ref>
 |-
-| rowspan="4" | [[Cadena SER|SER]]
+| colspan="2" | {{lang|es|[[Cadena SER]]|i=no}}{{efn|[[Simulcast]] on Radio Huesca,<ref name="Huesca">{{cite news |title=Agenda
-| Radio Huesca
+  |url=https://store.diariodelaltoaragon.es/cgi-bin/Pandora?xslt=ejemplar;filename=NE19720325;place=none;publication=Nueva%20España;day=25;month=03;year=1972;page=0002;id=0000413760;collection=prensa;url_high=prensa/Nueva%20España/1972/197203/19720325/NE19720325-0002.pdf;lang=es;archivo=;encoding=utf-8 |access-date=3 February 2025 |work={{ill|Nueva España (newspaper)|es|Nueva España (periódico)|lt=Nueva España}} |date=25 March 1972 |page=2 |location=[[Huesca]], Spain |language=es}}</ref> Radio San Sebastián,<ref>{{cite news |title=tv |url=https://w390w.gipuzkoa.net/WAS/CORP/DKPAtzokoPrentsaWEB/argitalpen/179902/data/70390800000 |access-date=3 October 2024 |work={{ill|La Voz de España|es}} |date=25 March 1972 |page=17 |location=[[San Sebastián]], Spain |language=es |via={{ill|Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Center|eu|Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea}}}}</ref> {{ill|Radio Sevilla|es}},<ref>{{cite news |title=Programas de radio para hoy |trans-title=Radio programmes for today |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-sevilla-19720325-83.html |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC Sevilla]] |location=[[Seville]], Spain |date=25 March 1972 |page=83 |language=es |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and Radio Zaragoza.<ref>{{cite news |title=Programas para hoy de las emisoras locales de radiodifusion |trans-title=Today's programmes from local broadcasting stations |url=https://www.zaragoza.es/hemeroteca/prensa/HMZ_P0016/HMZ_P0016_1972-03-25/HMZ_P0016_1972-03-25.pdf |access-date=23 August 2024 |work={{ill|El Noticiero (Zaragoza)|es|lt=El Noticiero}} |date=25 March 1972 |page=23 |location=[[Zaragoza]], Spain |language=es |via={{ill|Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza|es}}}}</ref>}}
-| rowspan="4" {{N/A|}}
+| {{N/A|}}
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Agenda
+| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Huesca"/>
-  |url=https://store.diariodelaltoaragon.es/cgi-bin/Pandora?xslt=ejemplar;filename=NE19720325;place=none;publication=Nueva%20España;day=25;month=03;year=1972;page=0002;id=0000413760;collection=prensa;url_high=prensa/Nueva%20España/1972/197203/19720325/NE19720325-0002.pdf;lang=es;archivo=;encoding=utf-8 |access-date=3 February 2025 |work={{ill|Nueva España (newspaper)|es|Nueva España (periódico)|lt=Nueva España}} |date=25 March 1972 |page=2 |location=[[Huesca]], Spain |language=es}}</ref>
-|-
-| Radio San Sebastián
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=tv |url=https://w390w.gipuzkoa.net/WAS/CORP/DKPAtzokoPrentsaWEB/argitalpen/179902/data/70390800000 |access-date=3 October 2024 |work={{ill|La Voz de España|es}} |date=25 March 1972 |page=17 |location=[[San Sebastián]], Spain |language=es |via={{ill|Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Center|eu|Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea}}}}</ref>
-|-
-| {{ill|Radio Sevilla|es}}
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Programas de radio para hoy |trans-title=Radio programmes for today |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-sevilla-19720325-83.html |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC Sevilla]] |location=[[Seville]], Spain |date=25 March 1972 |page=83 |language=es |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
-|-
-| Radio Zaragoza
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Programas para hoy de las emisoras locales de radiodifusion |trans-title=Today's programmes from local broadcasting stations |url=https://www.zaragoza.es/hemeroteca/prensa/HMZ_P0016/HMZ_P0016_1972-03-25/HMZ_P0016_1972-03-25.pdf |access-date=23 August 2024 |work={{ill|El Noticiero (Zaragoza)|es|lt=El Noticiero}} |date=25 March 1972 |page=23 |location=[[Zaragoza]], Spain |language=es |via={{ill|Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza|es}}}}</ref>
 |-
 ! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Sweden}}
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 | [[SVT1|TV1]]
 | {{ill|Bo Billtén|sv}}
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="genom tiden">{{cite book |last1=Thorsson |first1=Leif |last2=Verhage |first2=Martin |title=Melodifestivalen genom tiderna : de svenska uttagningarna och internationella finalerna |date=2006 |publisher=Premium Publishing |location=Stockholm |isbn=91-89136-29-2 |language=sv |pages=94–95}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=tv programmen |trans-title=tv programmes |work=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Stockholm]], Sweden |page=24 |language=sv}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" | {{sfn|Thorsson|Verhage|2006|pp=94–95}}<ref>{{cite news |title=tv programmen |trans-title=tv programmes |work=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Stockholm]], Sweden |page=24 |language=sv}}</ref>
 |-
 | [[Sveriges Radio P3|SR P3]]
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 |-
 | [[RTS 1 (Swiss TV channel)|TSR]]
-| {{ill|Georges Hardy|fr}}
+| {{ill|Georges Hardy|fr|Georges Hardy (journaliste)}}
 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite magazine |title=TV – samedi 25 mars |trans-title=TV – Saturday 25 March |url=https://www.scriptorium.ch/zoom/325043/view?page=17&p=verso&tool=info |access-date=5 January 2023 |magazine=[[TV8 (magazine)|Radio TV – Je vois tout]] |date=23 March 1972 |volume=50 |issue=12 |location=[[Lausanne]], Switzerland |pages=32–33 |language=fr |via=[[Scriptorium (website)|Scriptorium]]}}</ref>
 |-
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 | style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Radio">{{cite news |title=Radio – samedi 25 mars |trans-title=Radio – Saturday 25 March |url=https://www.scriptorium.ch/zoom/325043/view?page=32&p=verso&tool=info |access-date=5 January 2023 |work=Radio TV – Je vois tout |date=23 March 1972 |issue=12 |location=Lausanne, Switzerland |pages=62–63 |language=fr |via=Scriptorium}}</ref>
 |-
-! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}
+! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3" | {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}
 | rowspan="2" | [[BBC]]
 | [[BBC One|BBC1]]
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 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – BBC1 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/57d6291fa68f4ff5932c5451062572b8 |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=[[Radio Times]] |location=London, United Kingdom |date=25 March 1972 |via=[[BBC Genome Project]]}}</ref>
 |-
-| [[BBC Radio 2]]{{efn|[[Simulcast]] on [[BBC Radio 1]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio 2 – BBC Radio 1 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/020dff1fa9214f7491667b7ce3f96e1f |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=Radio Times |location=London, United Kingdom |date=25 March 1972 |via=BBC Genome Project}}</ref> [[BBC Radio WM|BBC Radio Birmingham]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Saturday TV & radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-post-radio-programmes-for/168542640/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[Birmingham Post|The Birmingham Post]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Birmingham]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Lancashire|BBC Radio Blackburn]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Weekend in view |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lancashire-telegraph-tv-radio-programm/168555259/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Lancashire Telegraph]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Blackburn]], United Kingdom |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Durham]],<ref name="Journal">{{cite news |title=Saturday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-radio-programmes-for-25-marc/168542011/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne newspaper)|The Journal]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Newcastle upon Tyne]], United Kingdom |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Leicester]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Full weekend TV and radio guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/leicester-mercury-radio-programmes-for-2/168555308/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Leicester Mercury]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Leicester]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Manchester]],<ref>{{cite news |title=weekend TV and radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-tv-radio-progr/168543202/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[Manchester Evening News]] |date=3 April 1971 |location=[[Manchester]], United Kingdom |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Kent|BBC Radio Medway]],<ref>{{cite news |title=–and Radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sevenoaks-chronicle-radio-programmes-for/168555012/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Kent and Sussex Courier|Sevenoaks Chronicle]] |date=24 March 1972 |location=[[Sevenoaks]], United Kingdom |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Merseyside]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Your TV and leisure guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-echo-radio-programmes-for-25-m/168555161/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Liverpool Echo]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Liverpool]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Newcastle]],<ref name="Journal" /> [[BBC Radio Stoke|BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Your week-end viewing and listening |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-sentinel-tv-radio-programmes-f/168541606/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[The Sentinel (Staffordshire)|Evening Sentinel]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Stoke-on-Trent]], United Kingdom |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and [[BBC Radio Tees|BBC Radio Teesside]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Television Guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northern-echo-3-am-ed-tv-radio/168555364/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[The Northern Echo]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Darlington]], United Kingdom |page=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>}}
+| [[BBC Radio 2]]{{efn|[[Simulcast]] on [[BBC Radio 1]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio 2 – BBC Radio 1 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/020dff1fa9214f7491667b7ce3f96e1f |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=Radio Times |location=London, United Kingdom |date=25 March 1972 |via=[[BBC Genome Project]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio WM|BBC Radio Birmingham]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Saturday TV & radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-post-radio-programmes-for/168542640/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[Birmingham Post|The Birmingham Post]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Birmingham]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Lancashire|BBC Radio Blackburn]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Weekend in view |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lancashire-telegraph-tv-radio-programm/168555259/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Lancashire Telegraph]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Blackburn]], United Kingdom |page=8 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Durham]],<ref name="Journal">{{cite news |title=Saturday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-radio-programmes-for-25-marc/168542011/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne newspaper)|The Journal]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Newcastle upon Tyne]], United Kingdom |page=11 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Leicester]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Full weekend TV and radio guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/leicester-mercury-radio-programmes-for-2/168555308/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Leicester Mercury]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Leicester]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Manchester]],<ref>{{cite news |title=weekend TV and radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-tv-radio-progr/168543202/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[Manchester Evening News]] |date=3 April 1971 |location=[[Manchester]], United Kingdom |page=11 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Kent|BBC Radio Medway]],<ref>{{cite news |title=–and Radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sevenoaks-chronicle-radio-programmes-for/168555012/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Kent and Sussex Courier|Sevenoaks Chronicle]] |date=24 March 1972 |location=[[Sevenoaks]], United Kingdom |page=6 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Merseyside]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Your TV and leisure guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-echo-radio-programmes-for-25-m/168555161/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[Liverpool Echo]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Liverpool]], United Kingdom |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> [[BBC Radio Newcastle]],<ref name="Journal" /> [[BBC Radio Stoke|BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Your week-end viewing and listening |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-sentinel-tv-radio-programmes-f/168541606/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=[[The Sentinel (Staffordshire)|Evening Sentinel]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Stoke-on-Trent]], United Kingdom |page=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> and [[BBC Radio Tees|BBC Radio Teesside]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Television Guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northern-echo-3-am-ed-tv-radio/168555364/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=[[The Northern Echo]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Darlington]], United Kingdom |page=14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>}}
 | [[Pete Murray (DJ)|Pete Murray]]
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – BBC Radio 2 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2782cb70d1674c82903747680735a225 |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=Radio Times |location=London, United Kingdom |date=25 March 1972 |via=BBC Genome Project}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – BBC Radio 2 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2782cb70d1674c82903747680735a225 |access-date=6 January 2023 |work=Radio Times |location=London, United Kingdom |date=25 March 1972 |via=[[BBC Genome Project]]}}</ref>
+|-
+| [[British Forces Broadcasting Service|BFBS]]
+| [[BFBS Radio]]{{efn|Delayed broadcast in [[Akrotiri and Dhekelia]] on 2 April 1972 at 20:45 ([[Eastern European Time|EET]])<ref name="Cyprus" />}}
+| Terry James
+| style="text-align:center" | {{sfn|Roxburgh|2014|pp=76–98}}<ref name="Cyprus">{{cite news |title=Today's radio |url=https://www.pressarchive.cy/s/en/item/566800 |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=[[Cyprus Mail]] |date=2 April 1972 |location=[[Nicosia]], Cyprus |page=2 |via={{ill|Press and Information Office|el|Γραφείο Τύπου και Πληροφοριών}}}}</ref>
 |-
 ! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3" | {{Flagu|Yugoslavia}}
 | rowspan="3" | [[Yugoslav Radio Television|JRT]]
-| {{lang|sh|[[RTS1 (Serbian TV channel)|TV Beograd 1]]|i=unset}}, [[HRT 1|TV Zagreb 1]]
+| {{lang|sh|[[TV Belgrade|TV Beograd 1]]|i=unset}}, [[TV Zagreb|TV Zagreb 1]]
 | [[Oliver Mlakar]]
 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Телевизија |trans-title=Television |url=https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp%7Cissue:UB_00064_19720325%7Cpage:16 |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=[[Borba (newspaper)|Borba]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Belgrade]], Yugoslavia |page=16 |language=sh-cyrl |via=[[Belgrade University Library]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tjedni televizijski program {{!}} TV Zagreb od 25. ožujka do 31. ožujka |trans-title=Weekly television schedule {{!}} TV Zagreb from 25 March to 31 March |url=https://library.foi.hr/dbook/novine.php?C=20&godina=1972&broj=000012&page=015 |access-date=13 May 2024 |work=Glas Podravine |date=24 April 1972 |page=15 |language=sh |location=[[Koprivnica]], Yugoslavia |via={{ill|Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, University of Zagreb|hr|Fakultet organizacije i informatike u Varaždinu}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Belša |first1=Zvonimir |title=Eurovizijska zlatna sredina |trans-title=The golden mean of Eurovision |url=http://www.yugopapir.com/2014/05/eurovision-song-contest-1972-tereza.html |access-date=25 October 2024 |work={{ill|Plavi vjesnik|hr}} |date=April 1972 |language=sh |via=Yugopapir}}</ref>
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 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=I programmi RAI–TV |trans-title=RAI–TV programmes |url=https://archivio.ilpiccolo.it/aviator/aviator.php?newspaper=CFI0375833&edition=piccolo&issue=19720325&startpage=8 |access-date=27 October 2024 |work=[[Il Piccolo]] |date=25 March 1972 |location=[[Trieste]], Italy |language=it |page=8}}</ref>
 |-
-| [[TV SLO 1|TV Ljubljana 1]]
+| [[TV Ljubljana|TV Ljubljana 1]]
 | {{N/A|}}
 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=RTV Ljubljana |url=https://www.dlib.si/listalnik/URN_NBN_SI_doc-7G5J60M3/10/index.html |access-date=28 October 2024 |work=[[Delo (newspaper)|Delo]] |date=25 March 1972 |page=10 |language=sl |location=[[Ljubljana]], Yugoslavia |via=Digital Library of Slovenia}}</ref>
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 | [[CNT Curitiba|TV Paraná]]
 | style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/docreader.aspx?bib=761672&pasta=ano%20197&pagfis=86295 |title=Canal 6 hoje a cores |trans-title=Channel 6 today in color |work={{ill|Diario do Paraná|pt}} |location=[[Curitiba]], [[Paraná (state)|Paraná]], Brazil |page=3 |language=pt-br |date=25 March 1972 |access-date=12 June 2024 |quote=A transmissão a cores de hoje, pelo Canal 6, será direta de Edimburgo, na Escócia, gerada pela BBC d Londres. 18 países participam desta finalíssima do Festival da Eurovision.&nbsp;[...] Não perca hoje, ás 17h30m, esta iniciativa pioneira do Canal 6. |trans-quote=Today's color broadcast, on Channel 6, will be direct from Edinburgh, Scotland, generated by BBC London. 18 countries participate in this final of the Eurovision Festival.&nbsp;[...] Don't miss today, at 5:30 pm, this pioneering initiative by Channel 6. |via=National Library of Brazil}}</ref>
-|-
-! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Cyprus|1960}}
-| [[British Forces Broadcasting Service|BFBS]]
-| [[BFBS Radio]]{{efn|Delayed broadcast on 2 April 1972 at 20:45 ([[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]])<ref name="Cyprus" />}}
-| Terry James
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Roxburgh">{{cite book |last1=Roxburgh |first1=Gordon |title=Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest |date=2014 |publisher=[[Telos Publishing]] |location=Prestatyn |isbn=978-1-84583-093-9 |pages=76–98 |series=Volume Two: The 1970s}}</ref><ref name="Cyprus">{{cite news |title=Today's radio |url=https://www.pressarchive.cy/s/en/item/566800 |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=[[Cyprus Mail]] |date=2 April 1972 |location=[[Nicosia]], Cyprus |page=2 |via={{ill|Press and Information Office|el|Γραφείο Τύπου και Πληροφοριών}}}}</ref>
 |-
 ! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Czechoslovakia}}
 | [[Czechoslovak Television|ČST]]
-| [[ČT1|ČST1]], [[ČT2|ČST2]]{{efn|Experimentally broadcast in colour<ref name="ČST" />}}
+| {{ill|I. program|cs}}, {{ill|II. program|cs}}{{efn|Experimental colour broadcast on {{lang|cs|II. program|i=unset}}<ref name="ČST" />}}
 | Blažena Kočtúchová
-| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="ČST">{{cite magazine |title=So 25/3 |trans-title=Sat 25/3 |url=https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/TydenikCsTelevizie_OSA_1972-1/?pg=184&layout=s |access-date=13 March 2025 |work=Týdeník Československé televize |issue=13 |page=9 |date=20 March 1972 |location=[[Prague]], Czechoslovakia |language=cs |url-access=subscription |via={{ill|Arcanum Newspapers|hu|Arcanum Újságok}}}}</ref>
+| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="ČST">{{cite magazine |title=So 25/3 |trans-title=Sat 25/3 |url=https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/TydenikCsTelevizie_OSA_1972-1/?pg=184&layout=s |access-date=13 March 2025 |work=Týdeník Československé televize |issue=13 |page=9 |date=20 March 1972 |location=[[Prague]], Czechoslovakia |language=cs |url-access=subscription |via=[[Arcanum Newspapers]]}}</ref>
 |-
 ! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Greece|1970}}
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 |}
-== Notes==
+== Notes and references ==
-{{Notelist}}
+=== Notes ===
+{{notelist}}
+=== References ===
+{{reflist}}
-== References ==
+=== Bibliography ===
-{{Reflist|30em}}
+* {{cite book |last=O'Connor |first=John Kennedy |author-link=John Kennedy O'Connor |title=The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History |date=2010 |publisher=[[Carlton Publishing Group|Carlton Books]] |location=London, United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84732-521-1 |edition=2nd}}
+* {{Cite book |last=Roxburgh |first=Gordon |title=Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest |date=2014 |publisher=[[Telos Publishing]] |location=[[Prestatyn]], United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84583-093-9 |volume=Two: The 1970s}}
+* {{cite book |last1=Richard |first1=Jean-Marc |author-link1=Jean-Marc Richard (TV and radio presenter) |last2=Clapasson |first2=Mary |last3=Tanner |first3=Nicolas |title=La saga Eurovision |trans-title=The Eurovision saga |date=2017 |publisher={{ill|Éditions Favre|fr}} |location=[[Lausanne]], Switzerland |isbn=978-2-8289-1549-0 |language=fr}}
+* {{cite book |last1=Thorsson |first1=Leif |last2=Verhage |first2=Martin |title=Melodifestivalen genom tiderna : de svenska uttagningarna och internationella finalerna |trans-title=Melodifestivalen through the ages: the Swedish selections and international finals |date=2006 |publisher=Premium Publishing |location=Stockholm, Sweden |isbn=91-89136-29-2 |language=sv}}
 == External links ==
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 [[Category:1972 in the United Kingdom]]
 [[Category:March 1972 in Europe]]
-[[Category:Events in Edinburgh]]
+[[Category:Organised events in Edinburgh]]

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