Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

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....

If Australia did its best ratings so far, so did Italy. The country has had a rocky restart what comes to viewings since its comeback but it's been steadily growing and this year breaks all the previous records. The final has been followed in average by 3.292.000 viewers with a peak at 4.786.000 making it the third most watched programme of the evening right after major channels Rai1 and Canale5.  The first semifinal that was ment to be showed live for the first time but then cancelled and showed on Wednesday night at 11pm gathered anyway 212.000 with the peak at 314.000. The second semifinal where Italy voted got 792.000 and 1.092.000 peak.  Eurovision has been also a success on Twitter.  We didn't get to Torino 2016 but maybe 2017? Italy and RAI are ready. And meanwhile Il Volo will fly to European success..... 

The first viewing figures are out. In The Netherlands Anouk continued her boom. Over 4,8 million Dutch followed her adventure and the peak during her performance was 5,9 million. That's the best figures in The Netherlands in 14 years. In Italy Mengoni didn't manage to attract that well but there is a rise, nearly 1,9 million Italians tuned in (last year 1,4 million and in 2011 1,3 million). That's still 0,5 million more, it's a jump! And it was against very popular Amici reality show on Canale5 (4,7 million viewers last night). During Mengoni's performance the audience went up to over 2,4 million with the share of 20%, more than any other channel!