Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

#umk15 kicks off tonight from YLE's studios in Helsinki. Raakel Liekki and Roope Salminen will be hosting and only televoters decide tonight who will proceed to the final. That is half of them or 3 out of six entries. Tonight there are two big favorites, both the biggest favorites to win the whole thing actually, are in already tonight and both should qualify easily: Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät and Satin Circus - two boybands who couldn't be any different from each other. Tonight's only questions are how big a percentage PKN scores and who is the third qualifier? Raakel is a real Eurovision fan and has been in the audience the last years cheering on but Roope is a virgin, both as a live host and in Eurovision world. With their help I will guide you through tonight's semifinal live so stay tuned! Here we go! Raakel and Roope are joking about the panic they are in, as they both have no live tv experience and they ask the Gods of Melodifestivalen for help....  but...

YLE had previously said the final will be in March but now when the procedure of UMK is clear it is on February 28. The semifinals will be on February 7, 14 and 21. Each has six songs and televote will send three of them to the final. This way the final has nine entries. Once again only televote will decide the winner. But before all that there will be a preview show on January 31 presenting all the songs. The presenters will be Raakel Liekki and Roope Salminen. Raakel has a very colorful and should I say naked past, and like for Roope it's her first job as a live broadcast host.