Re: ITALY 2016
Talking about the decision to move the Eurovision final from Rai 2 to Rai 1, this could be a double edged weapon. I genuinely think that the great ratings results of 2015 in
have arrived thanks to a mix of Il Volo and Conchita Wurst and this means that it could be an exception hard to reach again the next year.
Now we have more pressure on the Eurovision 'cause Rai 1 "couldn't accept" the ratings described as a success on Rai 2.
But we also have to analyze that in these weeks the saturday show of Rai 1 (
Ti lascio una canzone, that we used as our national final for the Junior Eurovision, and it's at its eighth edition) is collecting a series of bad results (after four live shows the average is like 3.322.000 viewers and the Eurovision final on Rai 2 on May reached 3.292.000) and constantly losing against the concurrent show on Canale 5.
Looking at the ratings of the last week on
Rai 1:
Monday -
Il Giovane Montalbano (fiction) 5.143.000 al 20.65%
Tuesday -
Provaci ancora prof (fiction) 4.833.000 18.58%
Wednesday -
Passione sinistra (movie) 2.789.000 11.22%
Thursday -
Provaci ancora prof (fiction) 5.471.000 22.00%
Friday -
Tale e Quale Show (Your Face Sounds Familiar) 5.195.000 22.84%
Saturday -
Ti lascio una canzone (a sort of talent show for kids) 3.767.000 17.36%
Looking at the ratings of the last week of the concurrent channel
Canale 5:
Monday -
Un boss in salotto (movie) 3.890.000 15.82%
Tuesday -
L'onore e il rispetto (fiction) 3.673.000 14.60%
Wednesday -
Squadra antimafia (fiction) 4.190.000 18.7%
Thursday -
Grande Fratello (Big Brother) 3.380.000 18.00%
Friday -
Il Segreto (soap opera) 3.676.000 14.89%
Saturday -
Tu si que vales (talent show similar to Got Talent) 4.814.000 23.10%
The gran final of the Eurovision 2016 will fight for sure with one of the live shows of
Amici di Maria De Filippi, our most famous talent show. The fifhteenth edition will begin in the next weeks and will go on until the end of May. The last year Amici had an average of 5.111.000 viewers (24,88%). They debuted with 5.514.000 (25,78%), while the gran final reached 6.536.000 (34,20%), as you can see a dangerous enemy for our beloved european show!