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Yesterday evening looked exactly 984,772 Flemings to the first broadcast of eurosong 2016. This is evident from the viewing figures of the VRT Research Department.

The first of three broadcasts amounted on a market share of 38.1%. That means that of all the Flemish people who yesterday between 20.25 hours and hours of television watched, 21.35 38.1% saw the five Eurovision covers. The program then One was broadcast, the first episode of the series The eleventh of the eleventh, could almost 200,000 viewers more, 1,180,124 to be exact, with also a much higher market share (46.1%).

That the first broadcast start right away with less than a million viewers, is not a good sign. In 2014 eurosong with almost 1.2 million started looking Flemings, and continued that figure more or less stable throughout all seven broadcasts. Ten years ago, during the heyday of eurosong, 1.77 million people saw no less than how Kate Ryan the edition of 2006 on her name wrote.

Now Sunday, the second episode of eurosong 2016 on antenna. The five candidates than their attempts at Eurovision songs to the public.