Greece in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Greece
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Member station	ERT
National selection events	Eurovision Junior[show]
Participation summary
Appearances	6
First appearance	2003
Last appearance	2008
Best result	6th: 2005
Worst result	Last: 2007
External links
	Greece’s page at Eurovision.tv
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Greece has sent six entries to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, entering at the first contest 2003.

Greece’s first entry was eight-year-old Nicolas Ganopoulos with the song “Fili gia panda”, which came eight for Greece. Greece’s best entry in the contest was in 2005 when Alexandros and Kalli came sixth for Greece with “Tora einai i seira mas”. Greece’s worst entry was in 2007, when Made In Greece came 17th and last with only 14 points.

Participation history[edit]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009[edit]

It was revealed in October 2008 that Greek broadcaster ERT was considering a withdrawal from the 2009 contest after five years of participation due of the relatively low television ratings for the Contest and an objection to using children.^[1] ERT officially withdrew in late April 2009 citing the economic crisis at the time as a factor.^[2]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014[edit]

In January 2014, it was reported that NERIT were interested in taking part, taking over from defunct broadcaster ERT.^[3]^[4] These rumours were later confirmed to be untrue.^[5]

Participation[edit]

Table key

1st place 2nd place 3rd place Last place

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
2003	Nicolas Ganopoulos	“Fili gia panta” (Φίλοι για πάντα)	Greek	8	53
2004	Secret Band	“O palios mou eaftos” (Ο παλιός μου εαυτός)	Greek	9	48
2005	Alexandros & Kalli	“Tora einai i seira mas” (Tώρα είναι η σειρά μας)	Greek	6	88
2006	Chloe Sofia Boleti	“Den peirazei” (Δεν πειράζει)	Greek	13	35
2007	Made In Greece	“Kapou berdeftika” (Κάπου μπερδεύτηκα)	Greek	17	14
2008	Niki Yannouchou	“Kapoia nychta” (Κάποια νύχτα)	Greek	14	19

Broadcasts and voting[edit]

Commentators and spokespersons[edit]

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.^[6] The Greek broadcaster, ERT, sent their own commentators to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Greek language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Greece. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2003.

Year(s)	Commentator	Spokesperson
2003	Masa Fasoula and Nikos Frantseskakis	TBC
2004	TBC	Kalli Georgelli^[7]
2005	TBC	TBC
2006	TBC	Alexandros Chountas^[7]
2007	TBC	Chloe Sofia Boleti
2008	Renia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras	TBC
Did not participate between 2009 to 2016