AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1980

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1979
Dates
Final	16th of May 1980
Host
Venue	The Circle Theatre, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, ZF
Presenter(s)	Muharimmi Yazlan
Musical director	Ishaq Neftharri
Directed by	Mazmaruddin Hafyan
Executive supervisor	Khalismun Harisman
Executive producer	Gharaddi Nawfi
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends two juries and two public votes where each votes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 for the best 5 songs

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1979 is the twenty-third edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition is held by the authorities in Radio Zafizamarrah. This is the ninth time that Pyalivostok hosted the event, after doing so in 1958, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973 and 1975, and 1979 after Hariya Al-Husma and Tea and Sugar won it for the region last year. This is also the third time that Zafizamarrah has hosted the competition twice in a row.

The Metropolitan City of Zafizamarrah is the biggest urban area in the Zafizamarrah region and in North Alezia as a whole even to this day. In 1980, the population of the city reached 1,892,830 people. The city acted as the center of trade and economy between the regions of North Alezia, and also acts as the capital of Alezian modern culture and media, including acting as the place of the headquarters of the National Office of AleziRadio. Most of AleziRadio's programme and movies are made here, including movies such as "Fly, My Dear" and "Where Is The Night?"

Initially, it was proposed that Metrotheatre should host the competition again, however this was rejected by Radio Zafizamarrah and AleziRadio, not wanting to repeat their previous mistake of making everything "too same" as the previous competition. Thus, the host venue of the competition was moved to the Circle Theatre in the old Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, which was built in 1902 in the British Colonial Era and can seat 1,500 people inside. The unique feature of the Theatre is that it has a circle stage at the center, and initially, the organizers planned to utilize the feature. However, this was scrapped due to AleziRadio not having the technology to maximize the usage of the circle stage. And thus the circle stage was dismantled temporarily and the theatre's seating had to be rebuilt so all seats face the stage which was located on the West end of the interior. The renovation lasted between August 1979 to January 1980, in time for the competition.

After the competition, the interior stayed that way until its original circle stage and seating arrangement was rebuilt from November 1988 to August 1989. Currently, it is the oldest standing theatre in North Alezia which is nowadays the Alezian Union.

And starting from this year , Radio Pyalivostok / Daya Island commentated the competition for the Swedish language. A song in Swedish was also submitted to the competition for the first time. This is an inclusive feat considering that only 20% of Daya Islanders speaks Swedish as either their first or second language.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Zafizamarrah	Muhammad Alif-Alamein

Commentators

The list of commentators can be seen below.

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	AleziRadio	English: Azlain Hamisyan (AR-P1) Arabic : Mukhlis Hasdar (AR-P2)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Samaruddin Hatta (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Muhammad Yuzhari (RZ-PB)
Pantabang Islands	Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi	Alezian : Ya'en Rama'i Dadon (RZ/P A) Dutch : Aalsterijk Sa'i'ue'i Salem (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Sheila Rayeshmaim (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Carl Harry (RRB) French : Jacques Savois (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Hasan Stalenovich (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Titik Permata (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Berlyan Madanoshvili (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Anon Yaaveelman (RP / DS) Swedish : Malko Yanselund (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Selvada Rabatorraise (ARR)