In the Netherlands a record low of 257,000 viewers tuned into the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, losing over 80,000 viewers over last year.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was the least watched edition of Junior Eurovision to date in the Netherlands, with just 257,000 viewers tuning in. The Netherlands joins Bulgaria and Italy who have all reported declines in viewers over last years contest in Sofia, Bulgaria. This years contest was moved to a Sunday afternoon in an attempt to find a more suitable audience.
In 2015 a total of 339,000 viewers watched the contest in Sofia, Bulgaria where Shalisa performed โMillion Lightsโ, she went on to finish 15th. This year in Malta the Netherlands were represented by Kisses who were specially formed to compete in the contest. They finished 8th in last nights contest scoring a total of 174 points. The Netherlands is one of two countries to have participated in every edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest alongside Belarus.
The show yesterday saw considerable changes take place to it this year. The age of the participants was dropped to between 9 and 14 years old. Furthermore the public televote was dropped and replaced by an enhanced jury system. Each country was represented by both an adults jury and kids jury, while an Expert Panel was introduced.
Theย results were as follows:
- Georgia โย Mariam Mamadashvili โ Mzeo โ 239 points
- Armenia โย Anahit & Mary โ Taber โ 232 points
- Italy โย Fiamma Boccia โ Cara Mamma โ Dear Mom โ 209 points
- Russia โย Water of Life Project โ Water of Life โ 202 points
- Australia โย Alexa Curtis โ We Are โ 202 points
- Malta โ Christina Magrin โ Parachute โ 191 points
- Belarus โย Alexander Minyonok โ Musyka moikh pobed โ 177 points
- The Netherlandsย โย Kisses โ Kisses and Dancin โ 174 points
- Bulgaria โย Lidia Ganeva โ Magical Day โ 161 points
- Ireland โย Zena Donnelly โ Brรญce ar Bhrรญce โ 122 points
- Poland โย Olivia Wieczorek โ Nie zapomnij โ 60 points
- F.Y.R. Macedonia โย Martija Stanojkoviฤ โ Love Will Lead Our Way (Ljubovta ne vodi) โ 41 points
- Albania โย Klesta Qehaja โ Besoj โ 38 points
- Ukraine โย Sofia Rol โ Planet Craves For Love โ 30 points
- Israel โย Shir & Tim โ Folllow My Heart โ 27 points
- Cyprusย โย George Michaelides โ Dance Floor โ 27 points
- Serbia โย Dunja Jeliฤiฤ โ U la la la โ 14 points
Source: Kijkcijfers
Every change this year was welcome, bar the change to sunday afternoon… Had to skip dinner because of it… I’m Dutch aswell and we normally eat at a time where the show wasn’t even halfway through. Back to saturday evening!!
Who knows? Maybe the Netherlands will increase their viewership by over 20 million during next year’s Junior Eurovision! ๐
Agree with you Ruud-123, I definitely hope that EBU will make up their mind.
Exactly. But now I’m predicting that the viewership in the remaining countries will be bigger than previous years.
* Albania – 1,392,500
* Armenia – 1,499,040
* Australia – 13,031,146
* Belarus – 8,670,990
* Cyprus – 589,890
* Georgia – 2,967,558
* Ireland – 3,029,628
* Macedonia – 1,975,510
* Malta – 385,374
* Poland – 30,617,881
* Russia – 123,678,576
* Serbia – 6,571,683
* Ukraine – 39,610,519
Remember, these are my predictions. So don’t worry about the other countries. ๐
I don’t think over half of the population of Australia watched at 2am when less than 2 million people watched Eurovision this year.
I think my country (Netherlands) watch this contest less than other years because the national final has advertise so many on the television and now I saw never a advertise for JESC’16 on the television.