Yugoslavia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song "Rock Me", composed by Rajko Dujmić, with lyrics by Stevo Cvikić, and performed by the band Riva. The Yugoslavian participating broadcaster, (JRT), selected its entry through a national final. The entry eventually won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first and only time for Yugoslavia.
Before Eurovision
National final Jugoslavenska ratiotelevizija (JRT) held a national final to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1989. The national final was a cooperation and competition between eight of the subnational broadcasters that made up JRT at the time: RTV Beograd (SR Serbia), RTV Ljubljana (SR Slovenia), RTV Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina), RTV Priština (SAP Kosovo), RTV Sarajevo (SR Bosnia and Herzegovina), RTV Skopje (SR Macedonia), RTV Titograd (SR Montenegro), and RTV Zagreb (SR Croatia). Each broadcaster submitted their own songs, provided their own jury, and managed the broadcasting of the contest.
The national final had several names in TV-guides from the time, such as: "" in Slovene; and "" in Serbo-Croatian. The title card at the beginning of the national final read "". However, the national final along with every other Yugoslav national final has been referred to post hoc as Jugovizija by several sources.
Competing entries JRT opened a submission period for interested songwriters to submit entries to one of the eight subnational broadcasters until 15 December 1988. Each subnational broadcaster selected one song to go forward to the national final, and up to three others to be sent to an expert JRT jury, consisting of members from all eight subnational broadcasters. The expert JRT jury selected another eight entries from the submissions that were sent to it, therefore sixteen songs competed in total. The expert JRT jury consisted of Vartkes Baronijan, Kiril Vangelov, , , Petar Jurić, Slobodan Bućevac, Milan Stupar, and Akil Koci. Sources say that around 200 or more submissions were received in total by all sub-national broadcasters. +Competing entriesArtistSongSongwriter(s)ConductorBroadcasterLanguage Composer(s) Lyricist(s) "Umesto da se ljubimo" Gabor Lenđel Željko Samardžić Kornelije Kovač RTV Novi SadSerbo-Croatian BG Sound "Voli me opet" Dejan Petković Slobodan Marković RTV Beograd Biljana Krstić and Srđan Marjanović "Još jedan poljubac za kraj" Zdravko Đuranovic Radovan Papović RTV Titograd Caffe, Mojca and Marta "Kadar sem sama" RTV Ljubljana Slovene Foto Model "Neću da te delim" Boban Džeferdanović Slobodan Marković RTV Novi SadSerbo-Croatian Frenki "Reka bez povratka" Rade Radivojević Goran Cvetković RTV Beograd Jasna Zlokić "Sve duge godine" Rajko Dujmić Stevo Cvikić RTV Zagreb Jelena Džoja and Ambasadori "Kad ljubav umire" Ranko Rihtman RTV Sarajevo and Family "Tajna" Ljupčo Stojanovski Aleksandar Džambazov RTV Skopje Macedonian Massimo Savić "Plavi anđeo" RTV Zagreb Serbo-Croatian "Baby Blue" RTV Ljubljana Slovene Riva "Rock Me" Rajko Dujmić Stevo Cvikić RTV ZagrebSerbo-Croatian Toni Janković "Pričaj mi" Faruk Hasanbegović Cornelia Schoenfeld-Oljača Ranko Rihtman RTV Sarajevo "Fjollat"Vlora Januzi Shefqet Hoxha-Sheki RTV Priština Albanian Vesna Ivić and Tedi Bajić "Pregrni me nežno" Kiril CvertkovskiAleksandar Džambazov RTV SkopjeMacedonian and Intervali "Ogan gori" Slave Dimitrov Vasil Pujovski
Final The national final was held in the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad at 21:00 CET on 4 March 1989, and was organised by RTV Novi Sad. The show was hosted by and Bosko Negovanović. The RTV Novi Sad Orchestra accomponied each performance, with different conductors for each entry. Interval acts were provided by the RTV Novi Sad Orchestra, Moulin Rouge, Josipa Lisac, and Daniel.
The results were decided by three jurors in each of the eight subnational broadcasters handing out points in a 7-5-3-2-1 fashion, with 7 points going to their favourite song.
The contest was broadcast on several channels of JRT. It is known to have been broadcast on television on Televizija Zagreb 1, , Televizija Beograd 1, Televizija Priština, and Televizija Novi Sad. +Final - 4 March 1989 Artist Song Points Place 1 Jelena Džoja and Ambasadori "Kad ljubav umire"267 2 Caffe, Mojca and Marta "Kadar sem sama"1312 3 BG Sound "Voli me opet"543 4 Massimo Savić "Plavi anđeo"652 5 and Intervali "Ogan gori"1810 6 Riva "Rock Me"661 7 "Fjollat"715 8 Toni Janković "Pričaj mi"814 9 Vesna Ivić and Tedi Bajić "Pregrni me nežno"384 10 "Baby Blue"209 11 Jasna Zlokić "Sve duge godine"345 12 "Umesto da se ljubimo"1411 13 Frenki "Reka bez povratka"416 14 and Family "Tajna"296 15 Biljana Krstić and Srđan Marjanović "Još jedan poljubac za kraj"267 16 Foto Model "Neću da te delim"1013
+Detailed jury voting Song RTV Sarajevo RTV Ljubljana RTV Beograd RTV Zagreb RTV Skopje RTV Priština RTV Novi Sad RTV Titograd Total 1"Kad ljubav umire"222175726 2"Kadar sem sama"713213 3"Voli me opet"513557231153532354 4"Plavi anđeo"3775735751517265 5"Ogan gori"1211327118 6"Rock Me"773353777772166 7"Fjollat"12227 8"Pričaj mi"358 9"Pregrni me nežno"57375323338 10"Baby Blue"153123520 11"Sve duge godine"252311577134 12"Umesto da se ljubimo"222212314 13"Reka bez povratka"2114 14"Tajna"177551329 15"Još jedan poljubac za kraj"313257526 16"Neću da te delim"5510
At Eurovision The contest was broadcast on television on: , TV Novi Sad, and TV Zagreb 1, all with commentary provided by Oliver Mlakar; and on TV Ljubljana 1, TV Prishtina, and TV Skopje 1.
Riva was the twenty-second and last performer on the night of the contest, following . Their song "Rock Me" won the contest with a score of 137 points and won the contest.
Voting
+ Points awarded to Yugoslavia Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded by Yugoslavia Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
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