The venue that had hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 , Congresgebouw , was chosen . Various parts of the opening sequence and stage of the 1976 festival were reused . Again , Roland de Groot took charge of the design . As with the 1977 and 1978 contests , there were no pre-filmed postcards between the songs , with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the entries . Apart from this , the presenter , Marlous Fluitsma , except for the voting , did not make the presentation in English or French , which means that the presentation was made almost entirely in Dutch . NOS spent just US$ 725,000 on the project
Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Eurovision Song Contest 1980