In June 2004 , the EBU announced that it was to hold a concert to celebrate fifty years of the contest . The event was to be held on 16 October 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall in London , England . The BBC was to be the host broadcaster for the concert . The Royal Albert Hall was reportedly unavailable , so in August 2004 the EBU announced that DR would stage the event instead . Eurovision Song Contest supervisor Svante Stockselius said that Denmark 's previous experience of hosting Eurovision events ( the 2001 Contest and the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 ) were influential in the Union 's choice . The event was codenamed '' Extravaganza '' . 1998 Eurovision winner Dana International , who appeared at the event , later went to suggest that the reason behind the change of host country was also due to the fact that the BBC wanted to present the show " with humour " as though to poke fun at the Contest , an idea that proved to be less popular with the EBU . The BBC went on to broadcast their own 50th anniversary program , '' Boom Bang-a-Bang : 50 Years of Eurovision '' , in May 2006
first Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest