Intervision Song Contest
Sign in to savean international song contest consisting of both Post-Soviet states and members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Key facts
- Genre
- Music competition
- Created by
- International Radio and Television Organisation
- Number span no of episodes
- 10 contests
- Production locations
- Prague (1965) Bratislava (1966–1967) Karlovy Vary (1968) Sopot (1977–1980) Sochi (2008) Moscow (2025) Riyadh (2026)
- Production companies
- International Radio and Television Organisation , 1965–68: Czechoslovak Television , 1977–80: Telewizja Polska
- Release
- 12 June 1965 ( 1965-06-12 ) –, 22 June 1968 ( 1968-06-22 )
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Founded by
- Władysław Szpilman
- Genre
- popular music
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Original language
- Russian
- Creator
- Telewizja Polska
- Composer
- Andrzej Kurylewicz
- Official website
- intervision.world/en
- Image
- Intervision logo.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Intervision Song Contest
- Commons category
- Intervision Song Contest
- inception
- 1965-00-00
- language of work or name
- Russian
- start time
- 1965-00-00
- different from
- International Radio and Television Organisation
- number of episodes
- 10
- topic has template
- Template:Intervision Song Contest
- title
- Конкурс песни «Интервидение»
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Encyclopedic overview
The Intervision Song Contest (ISC) is an international song competition originally organised by the International Radio and Television Organisation (OIRT) and broadcast live via the Intervision network. Launched in 1965 as the Eastern Bloc equivalent to the Eurovision Song Contest, its first phase was staged in various cities across Czechoslovakia until 1968. From 1977 to 1980, the contest was held at Sopot's Forest Opera in Poland, followed by a one-off revival in Sochi in 2008. After a lengthy hiatus, the contest was relaunched in 2025 under an annual rotating-host model, with each edition staged in a different country.
The ISC replaced the long-running Sopot International Song Festival (Sopot ISF), which had been held in Sopot since 1961, when it moved there for its second phase from 1977 to 1980. In 1981 the unified ISC/Sopot ISF was cancelled because of the rise of the independent trade union movement, Solidarity, which was judged by other Eastern bloc communist governments to be "counter-revolutionary". In 1984, Polish broadcaster TVP revived the Sopot ISF under its original name.
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