Showing posts with label 1990s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1990s. Show all posts

Monday, 12 September 2011

1999: Dafna Dekel & Sigal Shahamon & Yigal Ravid

The only one with a wiki page is Dafna Dekel.

Dafna Dekel (born on 7 May 1966, in Ashdod, Israel) is an Israeli singer, actress and television personality.

Dafna Dekel was discovered while serving in the Nahal entertainment troupe of the Israel Defense Forces in 1985-1986. After her release from the army, Dekel was cast in the Israeli musical Salah Shabati produced in honor of Israel's 40th anniversary. In 1989 she released her first self-titled album. Although the album had 4 songs written and/or composed by Dekel, her biggest hits were songs written for her by others. In 1989, she sang in the children's holiday show "Festigal" with the song "Mah koreh li?" (What's happening to me?) and performed a Yemenite medley with Ofra Haza and Margalit Tsanani.
In 1992, Dekel won the "Kdam" (the Israeli pre-selection to the Eurovision Song Contest with "Zeh raq sport" (It's just sports). Dekel represented Israel in Sweden, winning 85 points and reaching 6th place. For the next three years, she was a regular on "Pilei Klaim" (Stage Wonders), a popular children's show. She released her second self-titled album in 1994.
She took part in the 1995 Festigal, coming in third, and the 1999 Festigal. That year she also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem, along with Yigal Ravid and Sigal Shachmon.[1][2] She appeared in several children's videos and then hosted "Dafna and Doo-Di-Doo," a television show for children.
In 2001 Dekel starred in the musical "Shilgiya" (Snow White) and composed the songs. Towards the end of the run, she continued to perform despite the death of her mother. She appeared in "Agadat Deshe" (A Grass Tale), a drama series that ran for two seasons. [3]
In March 2008 Dafna Dekel released the single "Yoman yakar" (Dear Diary), the first song from her third album "Yoman" (diary). She wrote and composed most of the lyrics in collaboration with her brothers, who are also musicians.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafna_Dekel

Dafna as a contestant in Sweden in 1992.
Dafna (left) with her co-hosts Sigal Shahamon (middle) and Yigal Ravid (right). 
Dafna Dekel

Yigal Ravid

Sigal Shahamon

1998: Ulrika Jonsson & Terry Wogan

Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967)[1] is a Swedish television presenter in Britain, who became famous as a TV-am weather girl and moved on to being the presenter of Gladiators and a team captain of the show Shooting Stars.

After working as a secretary, Jonsson began her TV career on TV-am in 1989 where she worked as a weather presenter. From 12 September 1989, she was also the weather presenter for Swedish TV3, broadcasting from London. In 1991, she co-presented the short-lived daytime quiz show Who's Bluffing Who?, and starred in the critically acclaimed French film, The Annunciation of Marie. In 1992 she moved into mainstream presenting and played host to numerous shows including Gladiators', The National Lottery – plus two major international broadcasts in 1998 and 1999, the Eurovision Song Contest and Miss World respectively. She also modelled for Playtex Lingerie during this period and was a team captain on the BBC TV quiz show Shooting Stars.

From & more info on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika_Jonsson

In 1998, with Terry Wogan.

Sir Michael Terence "Terry" Wogan KBE DL (born 3 August 1938) is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship. Wogan has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career. Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, Sir Terry had a regular 8 million listeners, making him the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation.[1] He began his career at Raidió Teilifís Éireann where he presented shows such as Jackpot in the 1960s.
Wogan has been a leading media personality in the UK since the late 1960s and is often referred to as a national treasure.[1] He is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for his BBC1 chat show Wogan, for his work presenting Children in Need, as the host of Wake Up to Wogan, the original host of the BBC game show Blankety Blank (before being replaced by Les Dawson), a presenter of Come Dancing in the 1970s, and as the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest on radio and television from 1971 to 2008. Wogan started a primetime weekend show on Radio 2 from 14 February 2010.[

Eurovision Song Contest
In 1971 and from 1974 until 1977, and again in 1979, Wogan provided the BBC's radio commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest. He became better known for his television commentary, which he handled first in 1973 and then again in 1978. From 1980 until 2008, he provided the BBC's television commentary every year and became famous for his sardonic and highly cynical comments. He also co-hosted the contest, in 1998 with Ulrika Jonsson, live from Birmingham. From 1977 until 1996 Wogan hosted the UK selection heat each year, returning to the job in 1998 and again from 2003 until 2008. In 1973, 1975 and every year from 1977 until 1984 and once more in 1994, Wogan also presented the UK Eurovision Song Contest Previews on BBC1. He remained until recently an advocate of the contest. He earned a reported £150,000 annually for his work with the contest.[22] His commentating style, which often involved humour at the expense of others, has caused some minor controversy, for example when he referred to the hosts of the 2001 contest in Denmark, Søren Pilmark and Natasja Crone Back, as "Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy".[23] Although many British viewers find his comments amusing, they are far from being universally liked outside Britain. The Danes were less than appreciative and Wogan now jokes that he is banned from visiting Denmark.[citation needed]
During the presentation of the Dutch televote in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, Wogan called the Dutch televote presenter, Paul de Leeuw, an "eejit", as de Leeuw started to make ad lib comments, gave his mobile phone number and lengthened the Dutch results. Chris Tarrant later remarked that "Terry Wogan's commentary is why any sane person would choose to watch the Eurovision," referring to his now-infamous acerbity.[citation needed].
During the 2007 BBC show Making Your Mind Up, in which the British public voted to decide their Eurovision entry, Terry Wogan announced, wrongly, that the runner-up Cyndi was the winner. The actual winner was the group Scooch and, according to the BBC, Terry Wogan had been provided with the correct result during the live show. His response to this on his radio show was quite simple, "It's not like anybody died or anything." He also stated that if they'd gone with Cyndi, we'd not have come last.[24]
The Contest in recent years, however, has become notorious for a perceived increase in political voting (an aspect noted for many years). In 2008 the UK's entry, Andy Abraham, came last, much to Wogan's disappointment. Wogan argued that Abraham "..gave, I think, the performance of his life with a song that certainly deserved far more points than it got when you look at the points that Spain got, that Bosnia-Herzegovina got – some really ridiculous songs."
Unknown to the majority of television viewers across Europe, however, Wogan is well-known to many veteran broadcasters across the continent, being seen as a Eurovision Song Contest institution. Indeed, at the 2008 contest he was acknowledged by both hosts, and welcomed personally by name to the show (alongside only two other individuals from the 43 participating broadcasting nations: France's Jean-Paul Gaultier and Finland's 2007 Contest host Jaana Pelkonen).[25]
On 11 August 2008, Wogan said in an interview with national magazine RadioTimes that he was 'very doubtful' about presenting the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom again, claiming it was "predictable" and "... no longer a music contest".[26] On 5 December 2008 Wogan officially stepped down from the role after 35 years. Graham Norton succeeded Wogan as BBC commentator for the 2009 contest. Norton said during the opening comments "I know, I miss Terry too." [27]
In 2008 Sir Terry and Aled Jones released a single "little drummer boy/peace on earth" which got to number three in the UK music charts. This single was part of an album called Bandaged which included songs by various artists and the money raised went to BBC Children in Need. In 2009 Sir Terry and Aled recorded a second Christmas single "Silver Bells" which was also part of the second Bandaged album in aid of BBC Children in Need and can still be found on http://www.charitygoods.com/.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Wogan

Saturday, 10 September 2011

1997: Ronan Keating & Carrrie Crowley

Ronan Patrick John Keating[1] (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Keating debuted on the professional music scene alongside Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately, in 1994 as the lead singer of Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999, and resulted in 9 studio albums. Keating gained worldwide attention when his single "When You Say Nothing at All" was featured in the film Notting Hill and peaked at number one in several countries. As a solo artist, Keating has sold over 22 million records worldwide. Along with Boyzone, Keating has sold over 40 million records worldwide,[2] and in Australia he is best known as a judge on The X Factor.[3]
Keating has worked as a charity campaigner most notably for the Marie Keating Foundation, a foundation that raises awareness for breast cancer. It is named after his mother, who died of the disease. Keating's fortune is around £12 million.

On 3 May 1997, Keating presented the Eurovision Song Contest along with Carrie Crowley.[34] He presented the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1997 and 1999, and co-presented the MTV Asia Awards in 2002 with Mandy Moore. He also hosted Miss World 1998.[35]
On 20 April 2009, Keating guest co-hosted The Morning Show in Australia alongside Kylie Gillies, while the show's regular male co-host Larry Emdur was on holiday.[36] In addition, he has stood in for Steve Wright on his Sunday Love Songs on BBC Radio 2.[37] He currently presents a Sunday request show on Magic 105.4 FM.[38]
In a section for the Jeremy Clarkson 2009 DVD Duel, Keating was invited to take part in an off-road race to find "the fastest off-road celebrity", along with newsreader Kate Silverton, Rugby player Matt Dawson, and Clarkson.[39] He came third overall, after being forced to abandon the car with only 20 seconds left to complete the course to disarm the on-board time bomb.
Keating is a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor on the Seven Network in 2010. Season one has him mentoring the over 25's category. His fellow Boyzone bandmembers helped him in the judges' house selection of the contest. He was the winning mentor for the 2010 Season; his over 25 artist Altiyan Childs won the show.
He appeared as a guest on episode 7, series 5 of Celebrity Juice along with Kimberley Walsh and Chipmunk.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Keating

In Dublin, 1997.

Carrie Crowley (born 23 May 1964 in Waterford) is an Irish actress and television presenter, appearing on shows such as The Morbegs and Echo Island for Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ). She is a fluent Irish speaker.

She began her broadcasting career on local Radio in her home city of Waterford on WLR FM and presented several different shows between 1991 and 1996 before moving to RTÉ.[2] She started out in children's programming co-presented the Irish Language versions of Echo Island with comedian Dara Ó Briain, and starring the pre-school series The Morbegs.
In 1997 Crowley was offered the role as presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 (hosted by RTÉ) with Ronan Keating. In 1998 she appeared again in the Eurovsion Song Contest before it began, speaking to Terry Wogan and wishing him and Ulrika Jonson well before they started presenting the show.[2]
After presenting the Eurovision, Crowley became one of the biggest stars on RTÉ's in the 1990s. According to her this was a major problem at the time, she was working on several shows on RTÉ. She presented Potluck Mondays to Fridays at 5:30, on a Thursday night she had her own health show called Pulse and on Sundays she had her own prime-time chat show called Limelight.[2]
She later left television presenting to return radio presenting, co-presenting Fandango with Ray D'Arcy on RTÉ Radio 1. She appears on RTÉ Radio 1 every Sunday night.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Crowley

1996: Morten Harket & Ingvild Bryn

Morten Harket (born 14 September 1959) is best known as the lead singer of the Norwegian synthpop/rock band A-ha, which released nine studio albums and topped the charts in several countries after their breakthrough hit "Take on Me" in 1985. A-ha disbanded in 2010. Harket has also released four solo albums. Before joining A-ha in 1982, Harket appeared on the Oslo club scene as the singer for blues outfit Souldier Blue.

In addition to the numerous A-ha and solo concerts, Harket has also performed on various other shows & concerts as solo artist and with A-ha. Some notable ones:
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Harket

In 1996s contest.

Ingvild Bryn (born 18 March 1961 in Voss) is a Norwegian journalist. She is currently a news anchor for the evening news Dagsrevyen, aired on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
She started as a news anchor in 1990, was then a correspondent in Washington, DC from 1996 to 1999 before returning to her post. She was, together with Morten Harket, the official presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.
She has education from the Volda University College and the University of Oslo. She is a proponent of Nynorsk.
She hails from Voss. Her sister Herborg Bryn is a Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation journalist. She is married to Svein Gjerdåker,[1] and they have two adopted children.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvild_Bryn


1995: Mary Kennedy

Mary Kennedy (Irish language: Máire Ní Chinnéide - born 4 October 1956) is an Irish television personality.

Born in Clondalkin, Dublin, Kennedy was educated at Colaiste Bride in Clondalkin and University College Dublin where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. She taught English in Brittany, France before returning to her alma mater to teach Irish and French.
Kennedy's broadcasting career started in 1978 when she applied for a job as continuity announcer at RTÉ. She went on to join the RTÉ News team, becoming a newscaster. She has also presented the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, a Saturday night chat show simply called Kennedy and was co-presenter with Marty Whelan on the magazine programme Open House.[1] She is currently Michael Ryan's co-presenter on the RTÉ local affairs show Nationwide.[1] In 2003 Kennedy published her memoirs, titled Paper Tigers.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kennedy

Hosting in 1995.

1994: Gerry Ryan & Cynthia Ní Mhurchú

Gerard "Gerry" Ryan (4 June 1956 – 30 April 2010)[2] was an Irish presenter of radio and television employed by RTÉ. He presented The Gerry Ryan Show on radio station RTÉ 2fm each weekday morning from 1988 until his death.
He hosted several series of television shows, including Secrets, Gerry Ryan Tonight, Ryantown, Gerry Ryan's Hitlist, Operation Transformation and Ryan Confidential [5] Ryan was also noted for co-presenting the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest and presenting an edition of the long-running chat show The Late Late Show in 2008.
Ryan's style was considered by some to be that of a motor-mouth shock jock.[6] The Gerry Ryan Show was subject to several upheld complaints to the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI),[7][8][9] although once escaped punishment when he said "Would it be considered blasphemous if someone said on air that 'God is a bollocks?'".[10] Ryan was noted for the enjoyment he took in discussing topics such as sex, bodily functions, and food - as well as current social and political issues.[11] PR guru Max Clifford observed he could have, like Graham Norton and Terry Wogan, had a successful broadcasting career in the UK and said he was similar to "Michael Parkinson at his best".[12]
Ryan was found dead in his Dublin apartment on 30 April 2010.[13][14] His death was later adjudged to have been caused by cocaine and alcohol consumption.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Ryan

In 1994 with Cynthia.

Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is an Irish barrister from Carlow and previously a broadcaster with RTÉ. She presented the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin along with Gerry Ryan. She initially worked as a teacher in an Irish language school in Carlow and then spent ten years working as a journalist and presenter in RTÉ, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and as a freelancer. Cynthia has also been a web columnist for several years and has written extensively on education, training and careers.
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is married and has two children.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_N%C3%AD_Mhurch%C3%BA

1993: Fionnuala Sweeney

Fionnuala Sweeney (born 1965) is an Irish anchorwoman and reporter for CNN International. She is an anchor and correspondent, based at the network's headquarters in Atlanta. She is the primary substitute anchor for Isha Sesay in the 10 a.m. ET/4 p.m CET edition of International Desk, the fast-paced international news bulletin. Previously, she was based in London, where she anchored World One, prior to World News Europe and International Correspondents.

Sweeney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she lived with her family until she was 12, when they moved to Dublin. She spent many school holidays in Glendowan, County Donegal and she still visits Donegal regularly.
Sweeney studied at St. Dominic's High School, before moving to Dublin, where she was a pupil at Alexandra College. She later studied Journalism at the National Institute for Higher Education (now DCU), and she graduated with a bachelor's degree in English and History and a Higher Diploma in Education at the University College Dublin.
Sweeney was also a music student at the School of Music, in Belfast, and later at Royal Irish Academy of Music, in Dublin. She studied Speech and Drama in Belfast, finishing her studies at the Betty Ann Norton School of Speech and Drama, in Dublin.

The first place Sweeney's voice was heard was as a newscaster on Chris Cary's Energy Power 103 FM where she was a co-presenter on "Wake Up With Energy" along with Pat Courtenay and Bob Gallico. Sweeney's on air name at Energy was "Lisa Moore". Like most of Ireland's successful broadcasters she got her broadcasting career break on the Superpirates which led to work at RTÉ 2FM as a newscaster in 1988.

A television journalist, Sweeney spent five years at RTÉ. She became famous as the host of the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, which was seen by 350 million people.
The same year, she moved to CNN, where she worked as a writer and anchor at CNN International Headquarters in Atlanta, before becoming a full-time anchor and re-basing to London. She frequently reports from the Middle East as well. Her most recent notable assignment there was during the hospitalization of Ariel Sharon.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionnuala_Sweeney

Hosting the contest of 1993.

1992: Lydia Cappolicchio & Harald Treutiger

Lydia Cappolicchio, born January 7, 1964 in Borås, Sweden, of Italian father and Slovene mother, is a Swedish journalist and hostess.
Lydia hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, alongside Harald Treutiger, held in Malmö, Sweden.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cappolicchio

Lydia with her co-host in 1992.

Nils Harald Ossian Treutiger (born June 5, 1956 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish television host who hosted Eurovision Song Contest 1992 in Sweden[1] after Carola Häggkvist winning in 1991. Harald is currently employed at TV4 Plus. Treutiger was the first host of Expedition Robinson, internationally known as Survivor, as the show was first aired in Sweden in 1997 before becoming an international franchise.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Treutiger

1991: Gigliola Cinquetti & Toto Cutugno

Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947, Verona, Veneto) is an Italian singer, TV presenter and journalist.
At the age of 16 she won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm Not Old Enough"), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri. Her victory enabled her to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the same song, and she went on to claim her country's first ever victory in the event. This became an international success, even entering UK Singles Chart,[1] traditionally unusual for Italian material. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a platinum disc in August 1964.[2] In 1966, she recorded "Dio, come ti amo" ("God, How I Love You"), which became another worldwide hit. 
 
She returned to fame in Eurovision Song Contest 1974, again representing Italy. Performing the song "Sì" ("Yes"), the music and lyrics of which were written by Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Lorenzo Pilat and Carrado Conti, she finished second behind "Waterloo", sung by Sweden's ABBA.
According to author and historian, John Kennedy O'Connor's, The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, the live telecast of her song was banned in her home country by the Italian national broadcaster RAI, as the event partially coincided with the campaigning for the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce which was held a month later in May.[3]
RAI censored the song because of concerns that the name and lyrics of the song (which constantly repeated the word 'Sì') could be accused of being a subliminal message and a form of propaganda to influence the Italian voting public to vote 'Yes' in the referendum.[4] The song remained censored on most Italian state TV and radio stations for over a month.
An English language version of the song, "Go (Before You Break My Heart)", reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1974.

One of her other songs, "Alle Porte del Sole" (released in 1973), was re-recorded in English (as "Door of the Sun") and Italian by Al Martino, two years after its initial release, and reached #17 on Billboard's Hot 100 in the United States. Cinquetti's own English version of the song was released as a single by CBS Records in August 1974, with her original 1973 Italian version on the B-side.
Cinquetti went on to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with Toto Cutugno, who had brought the event to Italy with his victory in Zagreb the previous year - the country's first win in the contest since her own twenty-six years earlier.
In the 1990s she became a professional journalist and TV presenter, and she currently hosts the current affairs programme Italia Rai on RAI International.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigliola_Cinquetti

She was the winner of the 1964 ESC in Denmark.
And she became second, after ABBA, in 1974.
While hosting the contest in 1991.

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (born July 7, 1943) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician.
Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Tuscany, to a Sicilian father and a Tuscan mother. Shortly after his birth the family moved to La Spezia (Liguria).
He began his musical career as a drummer, but later formed a band that performed his own songs. He also had cowritten for popular French-American singer Joe Dassin, contributing some of his most famous songs, including "L'été indien" ("Africa"), "Et si tu n'existais pas" and "Le Jardin du Luxembourg" (written with Vito Pallavicini).[1] He also co-wrote Dalida's "Laissez moi danser" (Voglio l'anima"), which became a Platinum record shortly after its release.
In 1976 Cutugno participated for the first time in the Sanremo Music Festival coming up with 3rd place with his band Albatros with the song, Volo 504. He then won in 1980 with the song "Solo noi", and again in 1983, with his smash hit, "L'Italiano", and subsequently finished second in six editions: in 1984 with the song "Serenata" ("Serenade"), in 1987 with "Figli" ("Sons" or "Children"), in 1988 with "Emozioni" ("Emotions"), in 1989 with the song "Le mamme" ("The Mamas"), in 1990 with Ray Charles with the song "Gli amori" ("Loves", but entitled "Good Love Gone Bad" in Charles' version) and in 2005 with Annalisa Minetti with the song "Come noi nessuno al mondo" ("No One Else in the World Like Us"). Toto Cutugno participated in the festival a total of 13 times.
He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with his own composition "Insieme: 1992" ("Together: 1992"), a ballad which celebrated European political integration. Along with Gigliola Cinquetti, Italy's only other Eurovision winner from 1964, he presented the 1991 contest, which was staged in Rome as a result of his victory.
Cutugno may be best-known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano (Lasciatemi Cantare)", which was on his hit CD, "I Grandi Successi".

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toto_Cutugno

During his performance in the 1990 contest.

1990: Helga Vlahović & Oliver Mlakar

Helga Vlahović (born January 28, 1945 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian journalist, producer, and television personality, whose career spans five decades in both the former Yugoslavia and the current nation of Croatia. She was one of the most popular television presenters in the 1980s.[1]
Throughout her career, she was also credited as Helga Vlahović Pea and Helga Vlahović Brnobić during the times she was married.

Vlahović started working at Zagreb Radio and Television (part of the Yugoslav Radio Television network) in 1964, while studying German, English, and art history at the University of Zagreb; with her newfound job, she ended up not completing her degrees.[2] By 1966, she became an anchorwoman of various entertainment and musical TV shows, putting her in charge of such popular programs as TV Magazin and musical television shows.[2]

In 1968, she was selected to run the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, and in 1971 she ran the song festival in Scheveningen, Netherlands.[2] She was then placed in charge of the morning talk show Good Day, Yugoslavia (which she hosted) in 1972,[2] as well as the music variety show Svjetla pozornice (Stage Lights) in 1977 and 1978.[2] From 1978 to 1980, she organized the Jadranski susreti (Adriatic Reunion, a Yugoslav version of Jeux Sans Frontières).

In 1984 and 1988, Vlahović organized the programs Beč pozdravlja Zagreb, Zagreb pozdravlja Beč (Vienna Salutes Zagreb, Zagreb Salutes Vienna) and Dubrovnik-Stuttgart, which were musical and travelogue series broadcast between JRT, ORF, and ARD, respectively, geared at Yugoslav guest workers who wanted to "see home" but could not afford to make a trip there.[2] Due to her extensive musical programming experience, as well as her proficiency in English, she was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 in Zagreb following Yugoslavia's win in 1989.[3][4][5]

With the fall of Yugoslavia in 1991 and the onset of the Croatian War of Independence, Vlahović was quickly put in charge of informational television series relating to the war on the newly formed HRT channel for the independent nation of Croatia.[2] She was head of "war information programming" until the end of war in 1995. In 1996, she started her own television series, Govorimo o zdravlju (We Talk About Health), which covered many health and wellness topics.[2] After 42 years of working at JRT and HRT, Vlahović retired in 2006.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga_Vlahovi%C4%87

In 1990 with her co-host Oliver Mlakar.


Oliver Mlakar (born 1 July 1935[1]) is a Croatian television presenter, best known for hosting game shows. He was one of the most popular television personalities of Yugoslavia and Croatia.
Mlakar was born in Ptuj and lived in Osijek from 1945 to 1954.[1] He moved to Zagreb in 1954 to study French and Italian at the University of Zagreb and began working as an announcer for Radio Zagreb in 1957. Mlakar became a full-time broadcaster for Television Zagreb in 1965, hosting Poziv na kviz, the first quiz show on Yugoslav television.[2] His most acclaimed work was as a games show host and he became known internationally for hosting Jeux Sans Frontières in the 1970s, and Kviskoteka, a highly popular quiz show that ran from 1980 to 1995. He co-hosted the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest held at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb (former Yugoslavia). Almost a decade later in 1999, Mlakar was still involved with Eurovision, hosting Dora, the Croatian heat of the song contest. From 1993 to 2002, Mlakar hosted Kolo sreće, a Croatian version of Wheel of Fortune. He retired from his job at the Croatian Radiotelevision in 2002.