Chile in the OTI Festival

Chile
Participating broadcaster	Televisión Nacional de Chile Canal 13 Chilevisión [a] Megavisión La Red
Participation summary
Appearances	28
First appearance	1972
Last appearance	2000
Highest placement	1st: 1984, 1998
Host	1978, 1986

The participation of Chile in the OTI Festival first began at the inaugural OTI Festival in 1972 held in Madrid and continued continuously until the last edition in 2000 held in Acapulco. Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN), Canal 13, Chilevisión, ^[a] Megavisión, and La Red, members of the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI), were responsible in turn –or jointly– for the Chilean participation.

History

Florcita Motuda won the OTI Festival in 1998.

Chile won the contest in two occasions: in 1984 with the singer-songwriter Fernando Ubiergo with the song "Agualuna", ^[1] and in 1998 with the rapper and comedian Florcita Motuda with the song "Fin de siglo, es hora de inflamarse deprimirse o transformarse". ^[2]

In addition to these victories, their placed second with Alberto Plaza  [ es ] and the song "Canción contra la tristeza" in 1995. They also got three third places: in 1976 with José Alfredo Fuentes  [ es ] and the song "Era solo un chiquillo", in 1985 with Juan Carlos Duque  [ es ] and the song "Para poder vivir", and in 1992 with Pablo Herrera  [ es ] and his song "Para poder vivir".

Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) and Canal 13, organised jointly the event two times: in 1978, due to the refusal of the Nicaraguan broadcaster –the previous year's winner– to organise the event because of the Nicaraguan Revolution, and in 1986. Both events were held in the Municipal Theatre of Santiago.

National final

Chile was one of the few OTI Festival participating countries who organised an annual national final in order to select their participating entrant in the contest, produced in turn –or jointly– by TVN, Canal 13, Chilevisión, ^[a] Megavisión, and La Red. The winner, who was elected by a professional jury, would later represent the country in the festival.

The Festival OTI Nacional, which was the official name of the selection process, was also very popular between the local audience and in fact, many famous musicians participated in the national final in order to represent their country in the main event.

Participation overview

Table key

1	First place
2	Second place
3	Third place
F	Finalist
SF	Semi-finalist
X	Contest cancelled

Year	Participant	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Conductor	Place	Points
1972	TVN	Guillermo Basterrechea  [ es ]	"Una vez, otra vez" [b]	Eduardo Tarifa Guillermo Basterrechea	Eddy Guerín	7	4
1973	TVN	Antonio Zabaleta	"Cuando tú vuelvas" [c]	Antonio Zabaleta	Horacio Saavedra  [ es ]	6	5
1974	TVN	José Alfredo Fuentes  [ es ]	"Amor, volveré" [d]	José Alfredo Fuentes	Chucho Ferrer  [ es ]	8	4
1975	TVN	Osvaldo Díaz  [ es ]	"Las puertas del mundo" [e]	Luis "Poncho" Venegas	Horacio Saavedra	5	5
1976	TVN	José Alfredo Fuentes	"Era sólo un chiquillo" [f]	José Alfredo Fuentes Óscar Cáceres	Horacio Saavedra	3	12
1977	Canal 13	Capri	"Oda a mi guitarra" [g]	Nano Acevedo  [ es ]	Juan Azúa  [ es ]	11	2
1978	TVN Canal 13 Canal 9 UCV Televisión	Florcita Motuda	"Pobrecito mortal, si quieres ver menos televisión descubrirás que aburrido estarás por la tarde" [h]	Florcita Motuda	Horacio Saavedra	7	17
1979	TVN Canal 13 UCV Televisión Canal 9 Red Norte	Patricia Maldonado	"La música" [i]	Scottie Scott  [ es ]	Juan Salazar	14	10
1980	Canal 13	Nino García  [ es ]	"Sin razón" [j]	Nino García	Gonzalo García	14	9
1981	TVN Canal 13 UCV Televisión Teleonce	Florcita Motuda	"Si hoy tenemos que cantar a tanta gente, ¡pensémoslo!" [k]	Florcita Motuda	Juan Salazar	5	10
1982	Canal 13	Juan Pablo Méndez	"Si no hubieras estado tú" [l]	Juan Pablo Méndez	Francisco Aranda	11	14
1983	Teleonce	Wildo  [ es ]	"La misma vida, el mismo modo" [m]	Wildo	Francisco Aranda	–	–
1984	Teleonce	Fernando Ubiergo	"Agualuna" [n]	Fernando Ubiergo	Francisco Aranda	1	–
1985	Canal 13	Juan Carlos Duque  [ es ]	"Para poder vivir" [o]	Juan Carlos Duque	Francisco Aranda	3	–
1986	TVN Canal 13 Canal 11	Pancho Puelma  [ es ]	"Desde las nubes" [p]	Pancho Puelma	Francisco Aranda	–	–
1987	Canal 11	Eduardo Valenzuela  [ es ]	"Chocando paredes" [q]	Eduardo Valenzuela	Francisco Larraín	–	–
1988	Canal 13	Cecilia Castro	"Es mi libertad" [r]	Loreto Valenzuela Baudrand Alfredo Sauvalle	Miguel Pizarro	7	6
1989	TVN	Catalina Telias  [ es ]	"La movida" [s]	Scottie Scott	Toly Ramírez	–	–
1990	Canal 11	Osvaldo Díaz	"Si no te tuviera a ti" [t]	Eduardo Carrasco	Miguel Zabaleta	–	–
1991	Canal 13	Claudio Escobar	"Haciendo música" [u]	Scottie Scott	René Calderón  [ es ]	SF	–
1992	TVN	Pablo Herrera  [ es ]	"Te prometo" [v]	Pablo Herrera Alejandra Silva	Andrés Pollak	3	–
1993	RTU	Keko Yunge  [ es ]	"María y Manuel" [w]	Keko Yunge	Marc Friedler	–	–
1994	Megavisión	María Inés Naveillán  [ es ]	"La vida va" [x]	Luis "Poncho" Venegas	Francisco Aranda	9	–
1995	Canal 13	Alberto Plaza  [ es ]	"Canción contra la tristeza" [y]	Alberto Plaza	Roberto Trujillo	2	–
1996	TVN	José Luis Moya	"Te confieso" [z]	José Luis Ubiergo	Hugo Manzi	–	–
1997	Megavisión	Rachel	"Nunca sabrás cuánto te amo" [aa]	Alejandro Afani	René Calderón	F	–
1998	La Red	Florcita Motuda	"Fin de siglo: Es tiempo de inflamarse, deprimirse o transformarse" [ab]	Florcita Motuda	Olivia Alarcón	1	–
1999	Contest cancelled X
2000	Canal 13	Magdalena Matthey	"Tú, naturaleza" [ac]	Magdalena Matthey	Tilo González	–	–

Hosting

Year	Host broadcasters	City	Venue	Hosts	Ref.
1978	TVN Canal 13 Canal 9 UCV Televisión	Santiago	Municipal Theatre	Raquel Argandoña Raúl Matas  [ es ]	[3]
1986	TVN Canal 13 Canal 11			Pamela Hodar César Antonio Santis  [ es ]	[4]

Notes

1. As Canal 9, Teleonce, Canal 11, or RTU in different years
2. Translation: "On again, off again"
3. Translation: "When you return"
4. Translation: "My love, I will return"
5. Translation: "The doors of the world"
6. Translation: "He was just a little child"
7. Translation: "Ode to my guitar"
8. Translation: "Poor average guy, If you want to see less TV you will discover how bored you'll be in the afternoon"
9. Translation: "The music"
10. Translation: "Reasonless"
11. Translation: "If we have to sing about so many people, let's think about it!"
12. Translation: "If you wouldn't have been there"
13. Translation: "The same life, the same way"
14. Translation: "Moonwater"
15. Translation: "To be able to live"
16. Translation: "From the clouds"
17. Translation: "Colliding walls"
18. Translation: "It's my freedom"
19. Translation: "The moving"
20. Translation: "If I didn't have you"
21. Translation: "Making music"
22. Translation: "I promise you"
23. Translation: "María and Manuel"
24. Translation: "Life goes by"
25. Translation: "Song against the sadness"
26. Translation: "I confess to you"
27. Translation: "You'll never know how much I love you"
28. Translation: "End of century: It's time to get wild, to depress or to transform ourselves"
29. Translation: "You, nature"

References

1. "Ubiergo desclasifica archivos de su triunfo en la OTI". mercuriovalpo.cl. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
2. "La Nación Digital. El País". wvw.nacion.com. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
3. "Festival OTI de la Canción 1978". OTI Festival (in Spanish). 2 December 1978. Televisión Nacional de Chile / Canal 13 / Canal 9 / UCV Televisión / OTI.
4. "Festival OTI de la Canción 1986". OTI Festival (in Spanish). 15 November 1986. Televisión Nacional de Chile / Canal 13 / Canal 11 / OTI.