Kross-European Song Contest of 1973

This was the 47th edition and was held in July 1973. Since the show began, to save on costs, two different companies ran each contest. Evenly numbered contests (i.e 1922, 1934, 1958, etc) were ran by Recordza and Kross Company's Division A while oddly numbered contests (i.e 1923, 1935, 1955, etc) were ran by Xalproductions and Kross Company's Division B. After going bankrupt, Xalproductions stopped involvement with the contest meaning the 1971 contest had to be cancelled. Xalproductions and Division B again couldn't organise the 1973 contest and so merged with Division A. Every year onwards for the time being, would be organised by the evenly numbered division A team.

Preparations began in October 1972 when Division B was merged with Division A. Kross Company collaborated with again with RecZa Studios (formerly RECORDZA) and EmbeX Studios and a Dutch motor company for sponsorship. Krystal Gales returned as executive producer for her third contest with Kiana Ratz staying on as the assistant. Felix Dahlman left the company in January 1973 to move onto bigger things.

As the divisions had been merged, 1973 became a year for massive change in policies for Kross Company. They decided it would be bar the worst performing countries in the previous year for them to return the year after. Because of this, Yugoslavia,  Albania,  Hungary, and  Ireland were forced to withdraw. Majority of the countries who were absent from the previous contest didn't return except for Malta. Morocco also decided to withdraw.

The Netherlands chose Eindhoven to host the contest. Because there were only 26 participants, it was decided to not have any semi finals.

Awards
Bekaert Awards