ABU TV Song Festival 2012

ABU TV Song Festival 2012
motto	Beyond the Wave!
date	October 14, 2012
Host country	South Korea
venue	KBS Hall, Seoul
Broadcasting television station	KBS
Moderation	Han Seok-joon, Jamaica dela Cruz
Opening act	Chongdong Theater with Miso
Pause filler	MIJI with Fly Me to the Moon
participating countries	11
First time participation	Afghanistan Australia People's Republic of China Hong Kong Indonesia Japan Malaysia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Vietnam
Withdrawn participants	Mongolia
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Countries that participated in 2012

The ABU TV Song Festival 2012 was the first edition of the annual ABU TV Song Festival . The festival, which is not a competition, took place in the KBS Hall in the South Korean capital Seoul and overlapped with the 49th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). A total of eleven countries took part in the first festival. The theme of the show was "Beyond the Wave" ( dt. "Beyond the wave"), which stands for digital development in the public media.

The festival was not broadcast live, but the individual broadcasters broadcast the recordings between October and November 2012 in their programs.

Broadcasting television station

The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) was the broadcasting company for the first edition of the TV Song Festival, which took place in the KBS concert hall . The hosting broadcaster bore the costs for the stage design as well as the accommodation for the participants of the ABU TV Song Festival.

participating countries

Havana Brown, the Australian participant

TVXQ, the South Korean participant

Eleven contributions were presented at the ABU TV Song Festival 2012. The state broadcaster of Mongolia , MNB (Mongolian National Broadcaster), initially selected Naran with her song Nudnii shil (Shades) for the festival, but withdrew the participation on September 14, 2012.

Start number	country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German
01	Singapore	Malaysian	Taufik Batisah	Usah Lepaskan	Don't let go
02	Australia	English	Havana Brown	We run the night	We are in charge at night
03	Sri Lanka	Sinhala	Arjuna Rookantha & Shanika Madhumali	Me Jeewithe (මේජීවිතේ)	This life
04	Malaysia	Malaysian	Hafiz	Awan Nano	Nano clouds
05	Vietnam	Vietnamese	Lê Việt Anh	May	cloud
06	Japan	Japanese	Perfume	Spring of Life	Spring of life
07	Hong Kong	Cantonese	Alfred Hui (許廷鏗)	Ma Ngai (螞蟻)	The ant
08	Indonesia	Indonesian	Maria Calista	Karena Ku Sanggup	Because I can
09	People's Republic of China	Mandarin	Cao Fujia (曹 芙嘉)	Qian gua (牵挂)	Have no fear
10	Afghanistan	Persian 1	Hameed Sakhizada (حمید سخی زاده)	Dide ma (دید ما)	My eye
11	South Korea	Korean , English	TVXQ (동방신기)	Catch me	catch me

1. More precisely Hazaragi , a dialect of Persian spoken in Hazarajat (central Afghanistan) .

transmission

Each participating country was asked to broadcast the event during their program, along with overlaid comments and information about the festival in their local language. The festival was not broadcast live, but each broadcaster confirmed it was broadcast between October and November 2012 with a potential audience of 2 billion viewers, twenty times as many as the Eurovision Song Contest, which reached around 100 million viewers.

•  Afghanistan - Radio Television Afghanistan
•  Australia - SBS One (October 28, 2012) / SBS Two (November 1, 2012)
•  People's Republic of China - China Central Television
•  Hong Kong - TVB J2 (November 10, 2012) / TVB Music (December 26, 2012)
•  Indonesia - TVRI (November 3, 2012)
•  Japan - NHK BS Premium (January 12, 2013) / NHK G (February 9, 2013)
•  Malaysia - Radio Televisyen Malaysia
•  Russia - AIST (February 10, 2013)
•  Singapore - Suria TV (November 13, 2012)
•  South Korea - KBS 1TV (October 21, 2012)
•  Sri Lanka - Sirasa TV (November 3, 2012)
•  Vietnam - VTV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Asia Song Festival - Seoul 2012 . August 16, 2012. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2012. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Andy Mikheev: ABU TV Song Festival 2012 Participants . ESCKaz. October 4, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
3. ↑ Andy Mikheev: Special guests . In: ABU TV Song Festival 2012 . ESCKaz. October 22, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
4. ↑ ABU Upcoming Events . Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union . August 16, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
5. ↑ ABU 2012 Seoul ... 'Beyond the Wave' . The Asian. July 24, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
6. ↑ ABU Song Festival 2012 . Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union . Retrieved August 16, 2012.
7. ↑ ABU to launch 'Asiavision Song Contest'. EBU , November 8, 2011, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Andy Mikheev: Participants - ABU TV and Radio Song Festivals 2012. In: ABU TV Song Festival 2012. escKaz.com, August 16, 2012, accessed on August 17, 2012 . 

Web links

• Official website of the ABU (English)