At the close of voting, four countries were declared joint-winners: the United Kingdom with "Boom Bang-a-Bang" by Lulu, Spain with "Vivo cantando" by Salomé, the Netherlands with "De troubadour" by Lenny Kuhr, and France with "Un jour, un enfant" by Frida Boccara.

The venue selected to host the 1969 contest was the Teatro Real, an opera house located in Madrid opened in 1850.

[b] The musical director of the event was Augusto Algueró, who made the arrangements and conducted the orchestra during the opening and ending acts.

The interval act consisted of a surrealist documentary titled La España diferente, directed by Javier Aguirre, with music by Luis de Pablo.

The show ended with the orchestra performing a medley of previous Eurovision winning songs during the credits.

It had to rent colour television cameras from the ARD German network, which was provided by Fernseh and brought to Madrid from Cologne.

Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.

[18] In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in 26 countries including Tunisia; in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union received via Intervision; and in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico.