Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Dropping the semifinals and concentrating only to produce a big final with added active social medias buss seems to have worked well for YLE and #UMK17. The show was the 2nd most watched of the week with 1.397.000 viewers, beated only by Putous, a commercial tv's entertainement and comedy character show that is enjoying immense success, it scored last week 1.721.000, which is though less than its previous and season's opening show. 

The numbers are out and it has been a rather good year for YLE what comes to Eurovision song contest 2015 in Vienna. The first semifinal where Finland was, and not qualified, has a peak at 1.621.000 viewers and average of 871.000. The second semifinal peaked at 667.000 (with average of 330.000) as there was no Finland. The die hard PKN fans were not interested anymore in it, as the final peaked at 1.332.000 losing nearly 300.000 viewers (with the average of 632.000). All in all the first semifinal was the most watched tv-programme in any Finnish channel that week, while the final was 16th - on the other hand ahead of it are only tv-news and two episodes of a popular Finnish daily soap  opera Salatut elämät . The semifinal two is at no. 100....