OTI Festival 1978

OTI Festival 1978
Dates
Final2 December 1978 (1978-12-02)
Host
VenueMunicipal Theatre of Santiago, Santiago, Chile
Presenter(s)
Musical directorJuan Azúa [es]
Host broadcaster
Participants
Number of entries19
Debuting countries Paraguay
Returning countriesNone
Non-returning countries
Vote
Voting systemEach country had seven jurors and each of them voted for their favourite entry.
Winning song Brazil: Denisse de Kalafe [pt]: "El amor... cosa tan rara"
1977 ← OTI Festival → 1979

The OTI Festival 1978 (Spanish: Séptimo Gran Premio de la Canción Iberoamericana, Portuguese: Sétimo Grande Prêmio da Canção Ibero-Americana) was the seventh edition of the annual OTI Festival. It was held in Santiago, Chile, who offered to stage the event after Nicaragua, who won the previous contest, was unable to organize it due the outbreak of the Nicaraguan Revolution.[1] Organised by the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI) and host broadcasters Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN), Canal 13, UCV Televisión and Canal 9, the contest was held at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago on Saturday 2 December 1978 and was hosted by Raúl Matas [es] and Raquel Argandoña. Matas had previously presented the inaugural OTI Festival back in 1972 in Madrid.[2]

In this year's edition, in which many changes took place, the winner was the Brazilian entrant Denisse de Kalafe [pt] with the song "El amor... cosa tan rara".

  1. ^ "ABC (Madrid) – 02/12/1978, p. 53 – ABC.es Hemeroteca". ABC (in Spanish). Spain. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  2. ^ "Tribuna | La OTI". El País (in Spanish). November 28, 1978. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved January 27, 2018.