ABU Radio Song Festival 2012

ABU Radio Song Festival 2012
motto	Beyond the Wave (dt .: Beyond the wave)
date	October 11, 2012
Host country	South Korea
venue	KBS Hall, Seoul
Broadcasting television station	KBS
Moderation	Han Seok Joon & Ailee
Pause filler	Shinee , Lena Park & Kai
participating countries	13 contributions from 11 countries
winner	South Korea
First time participation	Australia Bhutan Brunei Indonesia Iran Malaysia Pakistan Singapore South Korea Vanuatu Vietnam
Withdrawn participants	Fiji Sri Lanka
Voting rule	International juries vote and the first five places receive the following prizes: 1st place: Grand Prix Award 2nd place: Gold Award 3rd place: Silver Award 4th place: Bronze Award 5th place: Special Jury Award
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Countries that participated in 2012

Countries that were eliminated by the jury preselection

The ABU Radio Song Festival 2012 was the first edition of the annual ABU Radio Song Festival . The competition took place on October 11th at KBS Hall in South Korea's capital Seoul. Of the 26 songs submitted by 18 TV stations in 15 different countries, 13 reached the final on October 11th by a jury preselection. Originally, two further entries had qualified for the final, but Fiji and Sri Lanka withdrew their final entries for unknown reasons, with Fiji being represented with another entry which did not survive the jury preselection.

South Korea won the Grand Prix Award and with it the festival, the only one of all ABU Song Festivals so far conceived as a competition and not as a gala , with the boy band Bily Acoustie and their song For A Rest .

prehistory

The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) had already organized a Eurovision Song Contest- inspired competition for its members from 1985 to 1987 , the ABU Popular Song Contest , in which 14 countries participated. The concept of the show was similar to that of the Radio Song Festival with a jury that could determine the winner. The winners were South Korea, New Zealand and Australia. From 1989 to 1991 there was a co-production by the ABU members and Yugoslavia and Finland, which took place in Malaysia under the name ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival .

In 2008 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) offered the ABU a partnership to set up an Asiavision Song Contest , but nothing came of it, and in September 2008 it was announced that the EBU had sold the concept for an Asian variant to a private company called Asiavision Pte. Ltd. had sold in Singapore. The original name was Asiavision Song Contest , but later, at the request of the ABU, it became Our Sound - The Asia-Pacific Song Contest , as Asiavision is a name for the ABU's message exchange system. The competition was originally intended to be held as a live show with televoting for the first time in 2009, but was then postponed to March 2010 (in Macau ) and then to November 2010 (in Mumbai ) on the grounds that there were "unresolved issues between the organizers and the EBU" .

Shortly before the initial organization of the ABU Song Festival, the ABU dealt with the possible hosting of an ABU ASEAN TV Song Festival in Thailand . The first ASEAN Song Contests were held between 1981 and 1997, but since 2011 the competitions have been held exclusively in cooperation with ASEAN radio stations such as Bintang Radio ASEAN .

In November 2011, the ABU announced that it would in future hold its own TV and radio song festivals in Seoul, the South Korean capital, coinciding with the 49th General Assembly in October 2012. The name Asiavision Song Contest was traded as a possibility, but in the end the names ABU Radio Song Festival and ABU TV Song Festival were chosen.

venue

Seoul city center

venue

Seoul is the capital of South Korea, the population is 10 million. Seoul is the center of the Sudogwon metropolitan area and is located on the Hangang River . This metropolitan area includes the cities of Incheon and Suwon , among others , and around 25.4 million people (49.4% of South Koreans) live there. This means that around half of all South Koreans are concentrated in the city of Seoul and its satellite cities. The Seoul metropolitan region of Sudogwon is the second largest metropolitan area in the world after Tokyo-Yokohama . In addition to its status as the capital and most populous city in Korea, Seoul is also the financial, cultural and educational center of South Korea. The city has hosted various sporting events such as B. the 1988 Summer Olympics and one of the venues for the 2002 World Cup .

The KBS Hall is located in the KBS transmitter center in the Yeouido district. It opened on September 7, 1991 and has a capacity of 1,824 spectators.

Broadcasting television station

As a member of ABU, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) hosted the 1st ABU Radio Song Festival. In contrast to the Eurovision Song Contest , the Asian version takes the form of a TV and radio festival. The 1st ABU Radio Song Festival coincided with the 49th General Assembly of ABU , which was also held in Seoul.

Attendees

Thirteen entries took part in the festival and were selected by the ABU, eleven of the 26 entries failed to qualify. Fiji and Sri Lanka withdrew their already qualified contributions at short notice. Only in 2012 did the first five contributions receive awards.

Start number	country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German	price
1	South Korea (hosts)	Korean	Afrodino	Pepperoni (페퍼 로니)	-	-
2	Brunei	Malaysian	Maria Aires	Yang terindah	So beautiful	Silver Award (3rd place)
3	Malaysia	English	K-Town Clan	Party animal	Party animal	Jury Award (5th place)
4th	Vanuatu 1	English	Sammy Ray Jones	Rinet	-	Bronze Award (4th place)
5	Pakistan	Urdu	Bilal Ahmed	Wada (وعدہ)	promise	-
6th	Malaysia	Malaysian	Sabhi Sadhi	Waktu	time	-
7th	Bhutan	English, Dzongkha	Dechen Wangmo	Black As Snow	Black as the snow	-
8th	Iran	Persian	Man Brothers	Iran (ایران)	-	-
9	Australia	English	Danielle Blakey	Fearless	Fearless	Gold Award (2nd place)
10	Indonesia	Indonesian	Rando sembiring	Menunggu	Waiting	-
11	Singapore	English	Jae Ang	Promise Me	promise me	-
12	Vietnam	Vietnamese	Chu Mạnh Chương	Quê Hương Ơn Bác	Homeland gratitude, uncle	-
13	South Korea (hosts)	English	Bily Acoustie	For A rest	For a rest	Grand Prix (1st place)

The following eleven entries could not qualify for the festival:

country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German
Bhutan	Dzongkha	Sonam Tshewang	Nga num che
Fiji	English	Luisa Serevi & Losana Masitabua	Help Me To Conserve	Help me keep
India	Malayalam , English	Bimblotica	I'm a girl	I'm a girl
India	Sanskrit	Mathur Lakshmi Keshava & Group	Vayam atra sanjataha asmakam punyam
Indonesia	Indonesian	Dorcas Lea Waroy	Aku rindu	I miss
Iran	Instrumental	Heidar & Shokrollah Sepahvand & Nabi Razazadeh	Tone Of Joyful Music Of Lorestan	Sound of joyful music from Lorestan
Iran	Instrumental	Mohsen Nafar	Dast Afshan (دست افشان)	To dance
Iran	Persian , English	Shayan Bohluli, Amin Alizadeh & Hamed Khodadadi	The First Day Of Spring	The first day of spring
Fiji	English	Luisa Serevi & Losana Masitabua	Help Me To Conserve	Help me keep
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz	Askat Musabekov	Sagynam (Сагынам)	Disappeared
Sudan	Sanskrit	Abdel Gadir Salim	Bessama (قتل)	Poison

The following entries were withdrawn from the competition:

country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German
Fiji	English	Sevanaia Yacalevu	Time for a change	Time for a change
Sri Lanka	Sinhala	Surendra Perera	Wehi pabalu sali (වැහි පබළු සැලී)	Raindrops

¹ Listed as Vanuatu, although the official website lists the subscriber as Australia / Vanuatu because the participating broadcaster is ABC Television from Australia.

Jury members

The following people voted on the distribution of the awards:

country	organization	Jury member
Australia	Marketing & Communications Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation / Radio Australia	Mark Hemetsberger
China	International Relations Department (RTPRC), China Radio International	Qi song
India	Program Director, All India Radio	K. Vageesh
Iran	Adviser - President of Radio for International Affairs and Director, Radio International Festival Islamic Rep. Of Iran Broadcasting	Behrooz Razavi Nejad
Malaysia	Head, Traxx FM Radio Television Malaysia	Rouhani Harithuddin
	Deputy Chairman of Broadcasting, Star Group	Kudsia Kahar
Singapore	Vice President, Malay / Indian & Expat. Programming, Radio Mediacorp Pte. Ltd	Zakiah Halim
South Korea	Producer, Korean Broadcasting System	Choong Eon Lee
		Kwan Mo Yoo
		In Cheol Hyun
	Production Manager, Korean Broadcasting System	Hyu Cheong Cho
Sri Lanka	Group Leader, MBC Networks Private Ltd	Shanthi Bhagirathan
Vietnam	International Cooperation Department, Voice of Vietnam	Nguyen Thi Thu

International broadcast

Each participating country was able to broadcast the competition in its network with commentary in the respective mother tongue to provide additional information. It was not broadcast live, although each broadcaster had committed to broadcast the competition between October and November 2012. The expected number of viewers was 2 billion people, ten times as high as that of the Eurovision Song Contest with around 200 million viewers.

•  Australia - Commercial Radio Australia
•  Bhutan - Centennial Radio
•  Brunei - Radio Televisyen Brunei
•  Fiji - Fiji Broadcasting Corporation
•  India - All India Radio
•  Indonesia - Radio Republic of Indonesia
•  Iran - Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting / Soroush Multimedia Corp.
•  Malaysia - Radio Televisyen Malaysia / Astro All Asian Network
•  Pakistan - Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation
•  Singapore - MediaCorp
•  South Korea - (October 21, 2012) KBS 2FM / KBS Radio 2
•  Sri Lanka - MBC Networks
•  Sudan - Sudan Radio
•  Vanuatu - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
•  Vietnam - Voice of Vietnam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ abu.org.my
2. ↑ esckaz.com
3. ↑ aburadiosongfestival.asia
4. ↑ esckaz.com
5. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest goes to Asia ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ Our Sound ™ - The Asia-Pacific Song Contest defies economic slump ( Memento from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ esckaz.com
8. ↑ eurovision.tv
9. ↑ office.kbs.co.kr
10. ↑ abu.org.my
11. ↑ abu.org.my ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ esckaz.com