Ratings Crash: Interest in Eurovision Almost Completely Evaporates in the Netherlands
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Ratings expert Tina Nijkamp reports that the viewing figures for the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest turned out to be historically low. The song festival, which is being held in Vienna this year, attracted only 541,000 viewers.
The viewing figures for the Eurovision Song Contest have collapsed following the boycott by the Netherlands. Only 541,000 viewers tuned in for the first semi-final on Tuesday evening, according to figures from NMO. Last year, that number was 2.3 million people. A huge drop.
Dutch viewers didn't seem to be really looking forward to the Eurovision Song Contest last Tuesday, but in Vienna, that feeling is very different. NU.nl asked Dutch fans: why are you going to the Song Contest anyway now that the Netherlands is boycotting?
The Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in Vienna this week, but the Netherlands is absent this year. Readers of De Gelderlander don't mind too much: ‘That’s perfectly fine!’
It just goes to show that when it comes down to it, everyone sides with GeenStijl. The Netherlands massively did NOT watch the Eurovision Song Contest. 541,000 people on primetime NPO1; that is well over 100,000 fewer than the number of people who saw Ludo pouncing on Janine again (we think, no idea) and good for a historically low thirteenth place on the ratings list. The Song Contest is dead and buried. The song festival that was never suppose…
The viewing figures for the Eurovision Song Contest have collapsed following the boycott by the Netherlands. Only 541,000 viewers tuned in for the first semi-final on Tuesday evening, according to figures from NMO. Last year, that number was 2.3 million people. A huge drop.
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