Eurovision Song Contest 1996
Also known as ESC 1996, Eurovision 1996
41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest
Key facts
- Final
- 18 May 1996 ( 1996-05-18 )
- Venue
- Oslo Spektrum , Oslo, Norway
- Organiser
- European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
- Scrutineer
- Christine Marchal-Ortiz
- Host broadcaster
- Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK)
- Director
- Pål Veiglum
- Executive producer
- Odd Arvid Strømstad
- Musical director
- Frode Thingnæs
- Presenters
- Ingvild Bryn Morten Harket
- Countries that participated after not pa
- Estonia Finland Netherlands Slovakia Switzerland
- Countries that did not participate after
- Denmark Germany Hungary Israel Russia
- Voting system
- Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their ten favourite songs
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 May 1996 at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, and presented by Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), who staged the event after winning the 1995 contest for Norway with the song "Nocturne" by Secret Garden.
Broadcasters from thirty countries submitted entries to the contest, with a non-public, audio-only qualifying round held two months before the final to reduce the number of participants from 30 to 23. The entries from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, and Russia were subsequently eliminated, which resulted in Germany being absent from the contest for the first and to date only time.