Kiddy Contest Kids

Begun by the Austrian Broadcasting Corp. (ORF in German) in 1995, the Kiddy Contest took what was already becoming a pedestrian idea in Europe -- basic audience voting on musical performances by amateurs -- and updated it for a kiddie set. While the various Idol incarnations around Europe have enjoyed massive success, there was always a demographic missed -- kids who weren't yet tweens. Kiddy Contest filled the gap by working kids through a few rounds of auditions singing their favorite tracks, but with a twist. Rather than running their favorite contemporary pop songs straigh...