France, and is now available everywhere in France. TMC programs no longer revolve around the principality. As TF1 Group being the biggest competitor to the French public channels, it is very unlikely that TMC will again broadcast the contest. When TMC did so between 2004 and 2006, its audience was much smaller than the one of the French public channel. In those years, it was the government and the municipality of Monaco who chose the contestant and funded the delegation, while it is usually the responsibility of a broadcaster or a producer. On 22 November 2021, L'Observateur de Monaco reported that 100,000 Euros have been allocated towards "initiating the application of the Principality to the Eurovision 2023 competition" in the state budget for 2022. Monaco’s potential return to the contest would have required co-operation between the Monégasque government and broadcaster TMC which is owned by France’s TF1 Group, however, in December 2021, the Monégasque government announced the launch of a new national public broadcaster, Monte-Carlo Riviera TV, which will be fully owned by the government, opening up a possibility of Monaco returning to the contest under the sponsorship of the Monegasque government starting in . However, the launch of Monte-Carlo Riviera was later delayed to between June and September 2023, meaning Monaco will not be able to return to the contest until at least 2024. Participation overview Due to the country's very small size, all Monaco's entrants came from outside the principality, although French-born Minouche Barelli, who represented the principality in 1967, shared her time between Paris and Monaco, acquired Monegasque citizenship in 2002, and died in the principality on 20 February 2004 at the age of 56. The large majority of the participant were French, with also one Yugoslavian, Tereza Kesovija, and one Luxembourgian, Mary Christy (born Marie Ruggeri). Several singers selected to represent Monaco are key figures of the French scene, such as Françoise Hardy and Michèle Torr. Luxembourg, another small country, also sent a great number of French artists to the contest. At the 1967 contest, the Monegasque entry, "", sung by Minouche Barelli, was written by Serge Gainsbourg. He had already composed the winning entry in 1965, "", sung by France Gall for Luxembourg. Jean Jacques, who represented Monaco in 1969, was the first child to take part in Eurovision. He was 12 years old, making him the first preteen to participate and the first participant