Editing Eurovision Song Contest 1962 (section)

== Broadcasts<span class="anchor" id="Broadcasters and commentators"></span> ==
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Broadcasters competing in the event were required to relay the contest via its networks; non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rules of the Contest |date=31 October 2018 |url=https://eurovision.tv/about/rules |publisher=[[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) |access-date=13 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004011300/https://eurovision.tv/about/rules |archive-date=4 October 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. These commentators were typically sent to the venue to report on the event, and were able to provide commentary from small booths constructed at the back of the venue.<ref>{{cite web |title=Commentator's guide to the commentators |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/commentator-s-guide-to-the-commentators |publisher=[[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) |access-date=2 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112181824/https://eurovision.tv/story/commentator-s-guide-to-the-commentators |archive-date=12 November 2018 |date=15 May 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Escudero |first1=Victor M. |title=Commentators: The national hosts of Eurovision |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/commentators-sweden-mans-zelmerlow-edward-af-sillen |publisher=[[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) |access-date=2 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516182452/https://eurovision.tv/story/commentators-sweden-mans-zelmerlow-edward-af-sillen |archive-date=16 May 2017 |date=14 May 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> At least 15 commentators were present at the contest, with an estimated global viewership and listenership of 60 to 100 million reported in the media.<ref name="LW5">{{cite news |author=P. W. |title=60 Millionen sahen Eurovisionssendung aus Luxemburg |trans-title=60 million people watched the Eurovision broadcast from Luxembourg |url=https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/9sz5rxc8q/pages/5 |access-date=4 December 2024 |work=[[Luxemburger Wort]] |location=[[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg |date=19 March 1962 |language=de |page=5 |via=[[National Library of Luxembourg]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Frankrike gikk til topps i Melodie Grand Prix |trans-title=France came out on top at the Eurovision Song Contest |url=https://www.nb.no/items/05301dcd98c6ba05562f2bf6e06b01da?page=13 |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=[[Arbeiderbladet]] |location=[[Oslo]], Norway |date=19 March 1962 |page=14 |language=no |via=[[National Library of Norway]]}}</ref> Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the table below.

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|+ Broadcasters and commentators
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! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Broadcaster
! scope="col" | Channel(s)
! scope="col" | Commentator(s)
! scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref(s)|References}}
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! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Austria}}
| [[ORF (broadcaster)|ORF]]
| [[ORF 1|ORF]]
| {{{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{Cite news |title=Fernsehprogramm vom 18. bis 24. März 1962 |trans-title=Television schedule from 18 to 24 March 1962 |url=https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=blf&datum=19620317&seite=10 |access-date=23 June 2024 |work={{ill|Burgenland Freizeit|lt=Burgenländische Freiheit|de}} |date=17 March 1962 |location=[[Wiener Neustadt]], Austria |page=12 |language=de |via=[[Austrian National Library]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Belgium}}
| [[Radiodiffusion-télévision belge|RTB]]
| [[La Une|RTB]]
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="LeSoir">{{cite news |title=Télévision |trans-title=Television |url=https://uurl.kbr.be/1609966 |url-access=registration |date=17 March 1962 |work=[[Le Soir]] |location=[[Brussels]], Belgium |access-date=31 January 2025 |page=6 |language=fr |via={{ill|BelgicaPress|nl}}}}</ref>
|- 
| [[Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep|BRT]]
| [[VRT 1|BRT]]
| [[Willem Duys]]
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="LeSoir" /><ref>{{cite AV media |title=Grand Prix Eurovision 1962 de la Chanson Européenne |date=18 March 1962 |type=Television production |language=nl |publisher={{lang|fr|[[Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion]]|i=unset}} (CLT) and {{lang|nl|[[Nederlandse Televisie Stichting]]|i=unset}} (NTS) |place=[[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg |quote=Duys: Goedenavond, dames en heren, in België en de Nederland. |trans-quote=Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, in Belgium and the Netherlands.}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Denmark}}
| [[DR (broadcaster)|DR]]
| {{lang|da|[[DR1|Danmarks Radio TV]]|i=unset}}, [[DR P2|Program 2]]
| {{ill|Ole Mortensen (broadcaster)|da|Ole Mortensen|lt=Ole Mortensen}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Alle tiders programoversigter – Søndag den 18. marts 1962 |trans-title=All-time programme overviews – Sunday 18 March 1962 |url=https://www.dr.dk/alletidersprogramoversigter/?date=1962-03-18 |publisher=[[DR (broadcaster)|DR]] |language=da |access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3" | {{Flagu|Finland}}
| rowspan="3" | [[Yle|YLE]]
| {{lang|fi|[[Yle TV1|Suomen Televisio]]|i=unset}}
| {{ill|Aarno Walli|fi}}
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="3" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Radio ja televisio |trans-title=Radio and television |url=https://nakoislehti.hs.fi/aebb4db6-5124-43c1-9d1f-eeb9727d767f |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]] |location=[[Helsinki]], Finland |date=18 March 1962 |pages=33 |language=fi |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
|-
| {{lang|fi|{{ill|Yleisohjelma|fi|Yleisohjelma (Suomen Yleisradio)}}|i=unset}}
| {{ill|Erkki Melakoski|fi}}
|-
| {{lang|fi|Ruotsinkielinen yleisohjelma|i=unset}}
| {{ill|Jan Sederholm|sv|Jan Sederholm (författare)}}
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|France}}
| rowspan="2" | [[Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française|RTF]]
| [[TF1|RTF]]
| [[Pierre Tchernia]]
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="INA">{{cite AV media |title=Remise du Grand Prix Eurovision 1962 à la France |trans-title=Presentation of the 1962 Eurovision Grand Prix to France |url=https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i00005174/remise-du-grand-prix-eurovision-1962-a-la-france |publisher={{lang|fr|[[Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion]]|i=unset}} (CLT) and {{lang|fr|[[Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française]]|i=unset}} (RTF) |place=[[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg |access-date=15 December 2022 |language=fr |via={{lang|fr|[[Institut national de l'audiovisuel]]|i=unset}} (INA)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Agenda l'Est Éclair |trans-title=The <span lang="fr">Est Éclair</span> agenda |url=https://archives-aube.fr/ark:42751/1eddddf0dfd46d00bb7b0050568bc001.fiche=arko_fiche_61d6ad59ec1f6.moteur=arko_default_63d288b4cdd38 |access-date=16 September 2024 |work={{ill|L'Est éclair|fr}} |date=17–18 March 1962 |location=[[Saint-André-les-Vergers]], France |page=2 |language=fr |via=[[Aube|Aube en Champagne]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[France Inter|France I]]
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="RadioTVJVT1" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Germany}}
| [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]
| {{lang|de|[[Das Erste|Deutsches Fernsehen]]|i=unset}}
| {{ill|Ruth Kappelsberger|de}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{Cite news |title=Deutsches Fernsehen |trans-title=German television |url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/item/IYB7CVAX5QHJLHY5N3SGFK6AAX2XQ4PZ |access-date=23 June 2024 |work=Neckar-Bote |date=17 March 1962 |location=[[Heidelberg]], West Germany |page=2 |language=de |via=[[Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Italy}}
| [[RAI]]
| {{lang|it|[[Rai 1|Programma Nazionale TV]]|i=unset}}{{efn|Deferred broadcast at 22:15 ([[Central European Time|CET]])<ref name="Radiocorriere2" />}}
| {{ill|Renato Tagliani|it}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Radiocorriere2">{{cite magazine |title=TV {{!}} domenica 18 marzo |trans-title=TV {{!}} Sunday 18 March |url=http://www.radiocorriere.teche.rai.it/Download.aspx?data=1962{{!}}12{{!}}000{{!}}P |magazine=[[Radiocorriere TV]] |location=[[Turin]], Italy |date=15–24 March 1962 |volume=39 |issue=12 |pages=20–21 |access-date=1 June 2024 |language=it |via=[[Rai Teche]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Luxembourg}}
| [[Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion|CLT]]
| {{lang|fr|[[RTL9|Télé-Luxembourg]]|i=unset}}, {{ill|RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg|lb|lt=Radio Luxembourg}}
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="LW4">{{cite news |title=Radio-Télévision |url=https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/10dsp9w8c/pages/21 |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[Luxemburger Wort]] |location=[[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg |date=17 March 1962 |language=de, fr |page=21 |via=[[National Library of Luxembourg]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" | {{Flagu|Monaco}}
| colspan="2" | [[RMC (France)|Radio Monte Carlo]]{{efn|Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 23 March at 17:02 ([[Central European Time|CET]])<ref name="RadioTVJVT2" />}}
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="RadioTVJVT2">{{cite magazine |title=Programmes radiophoniques |trans-title=Radiophonic programmes |url=https://www.scriptorium.ch/zoom/322517/view?page=29&p=verso&tool=info |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[TV8 (magazine)|Radio TV – Je vois tout]] |date=15 March 1962 |volume=40 |issue=11 |location=[[Lausanne]], Switzerland |pages=57–59 |language=fr |via=[[Scriptorium (website)|Scriptorium]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Netherlands}}
| [[Nederlandse Televisie Stichting|NTS]]
| [[NPO 1|NTS]]
| rowspan="2" | Willem Duys
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | <ref name="Limburgs">{{cite news |title=Wegwijs in etherland |trans-title=Find your way around aetherland |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011028023:mpeg21:p009 |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[Limburgs Dagblad]] |location=[[Heerlen]], Netherlands |date=17 March 1962 |language=nl |page=9 |via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Zestien zingende landen naar Songfestival |trans-title=Sixteen singing countries to the Eurovision Song Contest |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMCC01:048077022:mpeg21:p00019 |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[De Limburger|De Nieuwe Limburger]] |location=[[Maastricht]], Netherlands |date=17 March 1962 |language=nl |page=9 |via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Dutch Radio Union|NRU]]
| [[NPO Radio 1|Hilversum 2]]{{efn|Deferred broadcast in a shortened format at 23:00 ([[Central European Time|CET]])<ref name="Limburgs" />}}
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Norway}}
| [[NRK]]
| {{lang|no|[[NRK1|NRK Fjernsynet]]|i=unset}}, [[NRK P1|NRK]]
| [[Odd Grythe]]
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Se og hør i dag |trans-title=See and hear today |url=https://www.nb.no/items/4ff54e0bcd2326093f5bc386b733aae8?page=9 |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[Oppland Arbeiderblad]] |location=[[Oppland]], Norway |date=17 March 1962 |page=10 |language=no |via=[[National Library of Norway]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Spain|1945}}
| [[Televisión Española|TVE]]
| [[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|TVE]]
| {{ill|Federico Gallo|es}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Vanguardia">{{cite news |title=Radio y TV |trans-title=Radio and TV |url=https://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1962/03/18/pagina-31/32709184/pdf.html |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[La Vanguardia]] |location=[[Barcelona]], Spain |date=18 March 1962 |page=31 |language=es |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=HerGar |first1=Paula |title=Todos los comentaristas de la historia de España en Eurovisión (y una única mujer en solitario) |trans-title=All the commentators in the history of Spain in Eurovision (and only a single woman) |url=https://los40.com/los40/2018/03/27/album/1522166894_094380.html |publisher=[[Los 40]] |access-date=14 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926203750/https://los40.com/los40/2018/03/27/album/1522166894_094380.html |archive-date=26 September 2021 |language=es |date=28 March 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Radio Nacional de España|RNE]]
| [[Radio Nacional (Spanish radio station)|RNE]]
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Vanguardia" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|Sweden}}
| [[Sveriges Radio|SR]]
| {{lang|sv|[[SVT1|Sveriges TV]]|i=unset}}, [[Sveriges Radio P1|SR P1]]
| {{ill|Jan Gabrielsson|sv}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=TV. och radioprogrammen |trans-title=TV and radio programmes |work=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |date=18 March 1962 |location=[[Stockholm]], Sweden |page=25 |language=sv}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="5" | {{Flagu|Switzerland}}
| rowspan="5" | [[Swiss Broadcasting Corporation|SRG SSR]]
| [[SRF 1|TV DRS]]
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Radio und Fernsehen |trans-title=Radio and television |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=DBB19620318-01.1.31 |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[Der Bund]] |page=31 |date=18 May 1962 |location=[[Bern]], Switzerland |language=de |via=[[E-newspaperarchives.ch]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[RTS 1 (Swiss TV channel)|TSR]]
| Pierre Tchernia
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="INA" /><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Programme TV |trans-title=TV schedule |url=https://www.scriptorium.ch/zoom/322517/view?page=17&p=verso&tool=info |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[TV8 (magazine)|Radio TV – Je vois tout]] |date=15 March 1962 |volume=40 |issue=11 |location=[[Lausanne]], Switzerland |pages=32–34 |language=fr |via=[[Scriptorium (website)|Scriptorium]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[RSI La 1|TSI]]
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Giornale">{{cite news |title=Radio – Televisione |trans-title=Radio – Television |url=https://www.sbt.ti.ch/quotidiani-public-pdf/main_part.php?fullscreen=true&paper=gdp&day=17&month=3&year=1962&page=9&papername=Giornale%20del%20Popolo&allpages=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 |access-date=19 December 2022 |work=[[Giornale del Popolo]] |date=17 March 1962 |location=[[Lugano]], Switzerland |page=9 |language=it |via={{ill|Sistema bibliotecario ticinese|it}}}}</ref>
|-
| {{lang|fr|[[Espace 2|Radio Genève]]|i=unset}}{{efn|Deferred broadcast at 22:30 ([[Central European Time|CET]])<ref name="RadioTVJVT1" />}}
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="RadioTVJVT1">{{cite magazine |title=Programmes radiophoniques |trans-title=Radio programmes |url=https://www.scriptorium.ch/zoom/322517/view?page=21&p=verso&tool=info |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=[[TV8 (magazine)|Radio TV – Je vois tout]] |date=15 March 1962 |volume=40 |issue=11 |location=[[Lausanne]], Switzerland |pages=40–42 |language=fr |via=[[Scriptorium (website)|Scriptorium]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[RSI Rete Due|Radio Monte Ceneri]]
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Giornale" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}
| [[BBC]]
| [[BBC One|BBC TV]]
| [[David Jacobs (broadcaster)|David Jacobs]]
| style="text-align:center" | <ref name="Radio Times">{{cite magazine |title=Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1962 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0fdd4c65022145f3b9c5ffd7b7ee5461 |access-date=14 December 2022 |magazine=[[Radio Times]] |location=London, United Kingdom |date=17 March 1962 |via=[[BBC Genome Project]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3" | {{Flagu|Yugoslavia}}
| rowspan="3" | [[Yugoslav Radio Television|JRT]]
| {{lang|sh|[[RTS1 (Serbian TV channel)|Televizija Beograd]]|i=unset}}
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Радио Телевизија Београд |trans-title=Radio Television Belgrade |url=https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp{{!}}issue:UB_00064_19620318{{!}}page:16 |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=[[Borba (newspaper)|Borba]] |date=18 March 1962 |location=[[Belgrade]], Yugoslavia |page=16 |language=sh-cyrl |via=[[Belgrade University Library]]}}</ref>
|-
| {{lang|sl|{{ill|TV SLO 1|sl|lt=Televizija Ljubljana}}|i=unset}}
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=RTV Ljubljana |url=https://www.dlib.si/listalnik/URN_NBN_SI_doc-USD727A1/10/index.html |access-date=28 October 2024 |work=[[Delo (newspaper)|Delo]] |date=18 March 1962 |page=10 |language=sl |location=[[Ljubljana]], Yugoslavia |via=[[Digital Library of Slovenia]]}}</ref>
|-
| {{lang|sh|[[HRT 1|Televizija Zagreb]]|i=unset}}
| {{N/A|}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{cite news |title=Televizija |trans-title=Television |url=https://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/pvpages/pvpages/viewPage/?pv_page_id=28607&pv_issue_no=620317_A |access-date=15 December 2022 |work=[[Slobodna Dalmacija]] |date=17 March 1962 |page=8 |language=sh |location=[[Split, Croatia|Split]], Yugoslavia |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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