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Figures from the VRT Research Department shows that more than one and a half million Flemish people last Saturday the entire broadcast of the final of the sixty-first Eurovision Song Contest. It is Xandees’s participation in 2004 since the final looked more Flemings.

Exactly 1,531,569 million Flemings followed Saturday night the full broadcast, which took nearly four hours to complete. That figure is the average, which means that the peak much higher. Last Thursday was the second semifinal with Laura Tesoro followed by just no million Flemings, but there looked at the peak called more than 1.3 million people.

The final of the last song festival took out a crushing market share of 73.5%. That is to say that of all the Flemish people who last Saturday evening between 21:00 and televisiekeken 00.45 hours, nearly three quarters chose the song contest. The viewing audience was 25.5%, which means that of all Flemish people older than four years, more than one in four Jamala from Ukraine saw prevail.

Prior to the final One sent a special broadcast of the talk show Velasco & Guests , including Tom Helsen and Ingeborg. Who could on rekeken, 1,101,182 viewers with a market share of 54.2%.

Peaks and valleys

It is 2004 since the final again on more viewers could count. In the year of the hotly hyped participation by Xandee and her 1 Life, that in the end 22nd was, on average, 1,838,000 Flemings looked to the final. Two years earlier had to Belgian candidate Sergio with 26,000 viewers less. The final of 2011 as the least watched of this century, with less than half a million watch lustige Flemings. Other peaks we find in 2003 when Belgium finished second with the Group Urban Trad, in 2010, when Tom Dice was sixth, and last year, with the successful participation of Loïc Nagashima.

An overview of the Flemish viewing figures of the final of the Eurovision song contest in the 21st century:

Other countries

Not only in Flanders was the final of last Saturday evening a success. In France, Germany, the United Kingdom, both Netherlands, Sweden as Australia went the ratings the elevator in compared to last year. Douwe Nedelanders saw Bob eleventh 4.52 million end up. In France knocked the final of the Eurovision song contest for the first time those of the local version of The Voice, and Talent Scouting in Australia looked 303,000 people to the live broadcast of the finals, at 5:00 Sunday morning local time, and the repetition in prime time were watching more than 400,000 people. In comparison, the most watched program of the whole Sunday on the Australian tv, here is The Voice, attracted 1.4 million Australians.