Editing Eurovision Song Contest 1958 (section)

== Format ==
[[File:Eurovisie Songfestival. Lys Assia (Zwitserland), Bestanddeelnr 909-4008.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The stage and orchestra at the Eurovision Song Contest 1958]]
The contest was organised and broadcast by NTS, with Piet te Nuyl Jr. serving as producer, Gijs Stappershoef serving as director, and [[Dolf van der Linden]] serving as [[Music director|musical director]], leading the {{lang|nl|[[Metropole Orkest]]|i=unset}} during the event.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2012|pp=164–166}}{{sfn|O'Connor|2010|p=217}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Europa's zangsterren schraapten de keel |trans-title=Europe's singing stars cleared their throats |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010876930:mpeg21:a0104 |work=[[De Volkskrant]] |location=[[Amsterdam]], Netherlands |access-date=26 June 2023 |date=12 March 1958 |language=nl |page=3 |via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref> Each country was allowed to nominate their own musical director to lead the orchestra during the performance of their country's entry, with the host musical director also [[conducting]] for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2012|pp=160–164}}

Held in one of the studios of the AVRO broadcasting complex, the hall contained a small stage for the singers, with the orchestra situated [[Blocking (stage)|stage right]]. The rear of the performance area had interchangeable backgrounds for each song to add context to each song's lyrics, which could also be removed to show the scoreboard during the voting sequence, and the venue was decorated with thousands of [[tulip]]s.<ref name="ESC1958" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Zwart |first1=Josianne |title=A decade of song: Eurovision winners through the years (1956-1959) |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/a-%20decade-of-song-eurovision-winners-through-the-years-1956-1959 |publisher=[[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) |access-date=7 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104115113/https://eurovision.tv/story/a-%20decade-of-song-eurovision-winners-through-the-years-1956-1959 |archive-date=4 November 2017 |date=4 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

No significant changes to the rules of the 1957 contest were implemented; each country, participating through one EBU member broadcaster, was represented by one song performed by up to two people on stage.<ref name="ESC1958" />{{sfn|Roxburgh|2012|p=160}} Due to several entries having violated the duration limit in the previous event, the maximum song limit of 3 minutes and 30 seconds was more stringently enforced for this year's entries.<ref name="throwback"/> The voting system was the same as the one used the previous year; the results were determined through jury voting, with each country's jury containing ten individuals who each gave one vote to their favourite song, with no abstentions allowed and with jurors unable to vote for their own country.{{sfn|Roxburgh|2012|pp=164–166}}