Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994
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Finland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 with the song "Bye Bye Baby", written by Kari Salli and Markku Lentonen, and performed by the duo CatCat. The Finnish participating broadcaster, Script error: No such module "Lang". (Yle), organised the national final Script error: No such module "Lang". 1994 in order to select its entry for the contest. Ten entries were selected to compete in the national final on 5 March 1994 where votes from the public selected "Bye Bye Baby" performed by CatCat as the winner with 25,834 votes.
Finland competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 30 April 1994. Performing during the show in position 2, Finland placed twenty-second out of the 25 participating countries, scoring 11 points.
Background
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As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, Yle organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster has been selected its entries through national final competitions that have varied in format over the years. Since 1961, a selection show that was often titled Script error: No such module "Lang". highlighted that the purpose of the program was to select a song for Eurovision. The broadcaster selected its entry for the 1994 contest again through the Script error: No such module "Lang". selection show.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Before Eurovision
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Script error: No such module "Lang". 1994 was the national final that selected the Finnish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. The competition consisted of a final on 5 March 1994, held at the Tampere Hall in Tampere and hosted by Jukka Laaksonen, Juha Laitila and Joonas Myllyveräjä. Ten entries selected for the competition from 470 submissions received during a submission period as well as from composers and music publishers directly invited by Yle competed and "Bye Bye Baby" performed by CatCat was selected as the winner based on the results from a public vote, which were revealed by Finland's five telephone regions along with the votes of the venue audience. 119,322 votes were cast during the show, which was broadcast on Yle TV1 and watched by 1.17 million viewers in Finland. During the voting, it was discovered that the votes were incorrectly announced but were shortly amended following the competition.[2]
In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by Tarja Lunnas, while other guest performances were provided by Plavka, Jam and Spoon, and Kaija Koo.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Televote | Place |
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| 1 | Template:Ill | "Kuka tykkää suukoista" | Jari Holm, Seppo Matintalo, Template:Ill | 13,857 | 4 |
| 2 | Template:Ill | "Ateljee" | Darius Witkowski, Timo Puheloinen | 6,567 | 9 |
| 3 | Sari Sakki | "Jäisit mun luo" | Esa Rimpiläinen | 6,809 | 8 |
| 4 | Indiana | "Hän lähtee tänään" | Template:Ill | 7,738 | 6 |
| 5 | Template:Ill | "Rakkauden tiellä" | Template:Ill, Template:Ill, Timo Niemi | 13,633 | 5 |
| 6 | Janita | "Enkeli" | Tomi Ervi | 14,646 | 3 |
| 7 | CatCat | "Bye Bye Baby" | Kari Salli, Markku Lentonen | 25,834 | 1 |
| 8 | Template:Ill | "En dans på livets vågor" | Template:Ill, Susanne Sonntag | 17,348 | 2 |
| 9 | Template:Ill | "Seitsemänteen taivaaseen" | Tauski Peltonen | 6,009 | 10 |
| 10 | Marina Sigrids | "Lyft mig upp" | Clas Holm | 7,445 | 7 |
At Eurovision
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Voting
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