Regional selections The
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) held a national final to select its entry for the
Eurovision Song Contest 1989. Each division of SRG SSR —
Swiss German and
Romansh broadcaster (SF DRS),
Swiss French broadcaster (TSR), and
Swiss Italian broadcaster (TSI) —, used its own method to select its entries for the final. Eligible songs were required to have been composed by songwriters from Switzerland or
Liechtenstein, and the deadline for the song registration was on 28 October 1988. TSR internally selected its three songs for the final out of 51 song submissions. In total, 137 songs were submitted (with 9 being invalid), of which ten were selected: three in French, German, and Italian, and one in Romansh. It is unknown how the remaining regional broadcasters selected their songs.
1989 SF DRS staged the national final on 18 February 1989 at 20:10
CET at the Theater Casino in
Zug. It was hosted by . The national final was broadcast on
TV DRS (with commentary by ),
TSR (with commentary by ), and
TSI (with Italian commentary).
Céline Dion— who won for — and the Gipsy Line Dancers made guest appearances. The voting consisted of regional public votes which were sent to the three divisions of SRG SSR (SF DRS, TSR, TSI: German-Romansh, French, and Italian speaking, respectively), a press jury, and an "expert" jury. Applications for viewers to join the regional juries were sent via postcard until the week before the final, and 50 viewers from each canton were randomly selected to cast their votes to their broadcaster divisions via phone call. The winner was the song "", composed by Marie Louise Werth and performed by
Furbaz. The song received the highest possible amount of 60 points; 12 points from all five juries, and became the first song in Eurovision to be performed in
Romansh. ==At Eurovision==