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61.6% market share among younger viewers
Germany: 14.69 million people watched the final
These are probably the highest viewing figures in Germany ever, although reliable figures from the very early days of the contest are not available. Previously, the most watched Eurovision Song Contest before has always been reported to be the 1985 one, which was watched by 13.22 million people in West Germany alone.
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rost: we've heard you now. Are you finished yet? Or are you going to puke all over this thread all day to tell us all how horrible the show was? Since everyone I talked to abroad LOVED the show. They talk about Serbia 2008 and about Oslo 2010 as the best shows in ages. Russia last year was expensive- that's all we can say about it. Typically russian, expensive, and impressive, but a bit unsympathetic because of the price tag. People ejoyed this show, it made them warm, fuzzy and dancy, and all of Europe danced together. It can't get better than that 
@ rost
Least the presenters did not shout during the semis and their English was clear!
http://www.bild.de/B(...)m-telefonvoting.html
Ganz Deutschland ist im Lena-Finale-Fieber!
Heute um 21 Uhr startet endlich die Live-Übertragung des Eurovision Song Contest in der ARD. Weltweit werden rund 125 Millionen Menschen den Sängerwettstreit verfolgen. Mit der Startnummer 22 (von 25) geht Lena Meyer-Landruth („Satellite" 
für Deutschland ins Rennen. Und gilt neben der 17-jährigen Safura aus Aserbaidschan als Favoritin.
Seit 2009 setzt jedes Land eine Jury ein, die zur Hälfte über die Punktvergabe des Landes entscheidet. Über die zweite Hälfte entscheidet das Publikum per Telefon-Abstimmung. Diese beginnt dieses Jahr erstmals schon während der laufenden Sendung. Bisher durften die Fans erst für ihren Favoriten anrufen, wenn alle Kandidaten aufgetreten waren. Seit diesem Jahr gilt: Man kann ab dem Beginn der Show für jeden Kandidaten abstimmen – auch wenn er noch nicht aufgetreten ist. Dabei dürfen die Zuschauer wie üblich nicht für den Teilnehmer des eigenen Landes stimmen.
Trotzdem versuchen einige Lena-Fans, beim Voting zu schummeln, besorgten sich ausländische Telefonnummern, um die Abstimmung zu beeinflussen.
1. Sie besorgen sich Prepaid-SIM-Karten aus dem Ausland, um über das Handy mit einer Auslands-Rufnummer abstimmen zu können.
2. Im Internet kursieren sogenannte „Spoof-Cards“ für Handys, mit denen man bei einem Anruf eine falsche Handynummer vortäuschen kann. Der Einsatz solcher Karten ist in Deutschland streng verboten!
3. Über den Internet-Telefondienst Skype lassen sich sogenannte Online-Nummern kaufen, 25 Länder-Vorwahlen stehen dabei zur Verfügung (zum Beispiel Dänemark, Estland, Großbritannien, Polen, Schweden). Bei einer Online-Nummer wird der Anruf über das Internet geleitet und erhält eine Auslandsrufkennung. Dabei spielt es keine Rolle, wo der Anrufer sich befindet.
Der Anrufer muss lediglich bei Skype angemeldet sein und die Software installiert haben, dann kann er mit der gekauften Online-Nummer abstimmen. Eine Nummer kostet 17,25 Euro und gilt für drei Monate. Sollten aber zu viele Anrufe über Skype Online-Nummern bei der Abstimmung eingehen, werden diese gesperrt!
Um solche und ähnliche Manipulationen aufzuspüren, hat die veranstaltende „European Broadcasting Union“ (EBU) Wirtschaftsprüfer von Pricewaterhouse Coopers eingeschaltet. „Wir prüfen im Vorfeld die Systeme und die Auszählung unter größter Geheimhaltung beim Contest“, so der zuständige Manager Stephan Teiwes.
Eine legale Möglichkeit, Lena in Oslo zu unterstützen: Freunde im Ausland anrufen und sie zu bitten, für Lena zu stimmen! Und auch die Daumen zu drücken soll helfen.
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does anyone know where to find the complete voting result for every country (what the people and what the juries voted)?
THE WORST ESC THIS CENTURY!!!!!
Well -
and the most OUTRAGEOUS!! -
Was fan climing on stage - -
DAMN -where the heck were the SECURITIES???
They justify themselves he had just a camera - //Damn lucky you Norvegian organizers! -
what if he had not a camera but a gun or a bomb??
Remember Monika Seles!!!!!
If only the finalists voted then the top five would have been:
1.Germany 122
2. Romania 119
3. Greece 112
4. Turkey 107
5. Azerbaijan and Armenia 106
Figures are pretty low aren't they?!
@ Whatever ... ORIGINAL ... [29486]
"Oslo -- wonderful show !!!! " -
dont mame laugh!! - the cheapest and most boring 'show' in ESC history this dacade!!
Intecval acts were horrendous my neibour kids on the block to their beakdance better
@ Whatever ... ORIGINAL ... [29486]
well Yes a "big 4" is a winnner - time to celebrate!!
Yet another "big 4" at the bottom -
well we all are used to it////
ESC = Europe's Celebration of MUSIC and SONG ... and it is 55 YEARS STRONG!!!!
Finally , a Big 4 country is a ESC winner:
Congratulations to GERMANY'S Lena with "Satellite"
Congratulations to two more Big 4 countries --
FRANCE and SPAIN , for their best placing in years, too !!!!!!!!!!!
That can happen when you send good songs!!!!
Oslo -- wonderful show !!!!
The interval act with the “share the moment” Flash Mob was BRILLIANT
and it --- along with the songs of GREECE 
and ICELAND ---
… blew the roof off Telenor Arena !!!!!!!!!
BUT that little ...banter with a certain country with a STOLEN name, well....
Was it "rehearsed"? What about those 1+1 ...T-shirts at SF1 ?
Was THAT "deliberate", too ????
Bad call, Norway.-
... Music and Politics do NOT mix!
and THAT ...stunt caused them NOT to QUALIFY from SF1 !!!!!
BY NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES ....
When … MISTAKES happen, things like this can happen, too ....
---- ESC First -- Even with a good song, this a Host Country
that got 20th place in the Final (that is, Norway ... 5th from the ...BOTTOM)
Did Didrik deserve that? No. --- LESSON NO. 1
because
NOBODY APPRECIATED IT ....
when you did NOT … “share the moment” with other ESC Host Countries,
which were conveniently ... skipped … as if they had never happened --
Believe me …
ESC 2005 Kyiv ---- ESC 2006 Athens 
--- ESC 2007 Helsinki --- ESC 2008 Belgrade
did happen and …(comparably ) they were REALLY GREAT SHOWS !!!!!!!!!!
and EUROPE REMEMBERS, too !!! Example: Who did NOT “Feel the Rhythm”
when Finland’s Lordi with “Hard Rock Hallelujah” WON in Greece ??? --- LESSON NO. 2
Oh, by the way, in another interval act ----
MUSIC ..... CHOREOGRAPHY ...... LYRICS
are all GREEK Words and ideas / concepts
since NRK did not ... know( ??? ) where MUSIC originated from ...
--- LESSON NO. 3 … (GREEK-style )
Another ESC First -- This one is for SVANTE and NRK.
Thanks to an online LIVE! website stream ( freegossip.GR )
we got to see the ALL (SF1 / SF2 / Final) DRESS REHEARSALS
BEFORE THE ACTUAL SHOW .... LESSON NO. 4 (again, Greek-style )
I do not have anything else to say except for ...
(Comment continued below)
(Continued from my comment above)
GREECE .... 140 points / WON 8th place out of 39 songs
THANK YOU, EUROPE !!!!!!!!!! 
Especially to the countries, that voted for GREECE
(YOU have GREAT taste in MUSIC !!!!)
...................... CYPRUS ... 12 points ... TOP MARK
Well done to you, too, Cyprus! FABULOUS performance of
“Life will be better in Spring” with Jon !!!!!!!!!!!! …12 points
……Continuing now, with a big THANK YOU to:
........................ ALBANIA ... 12 points … TOP MARK
........................BELGIU M ... 12 points … TOP MARK
...........UNITED KINGDOM ... 12 points … TOP MARK
...........................SER BIA ... 10 points
...................GERMANY ... 8 points ... CONGRATULATIONS for No. 1 "Satellite" !!!!!!!!!!!!!
......................PORTUGAL ... 8 points
......................... ICELAND ... 8 points ... Thank you for the 1st ...Nordic vote
........................ ROMANIA ... 7 points ... Congratulations for No. 3 "Playing with fire"
..........................FINL AND ... 7 points ... Thank you for the 2nd ...Nordic vote
.............................M ALTA ... 7 points
....... BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA ... 6 points
.........................SLOVA KIA ...5 points (whose SONG should have been in the Final,
……………………………………………….….along with Nordic …0 points? .. Sweden)
....................... BULGARIA ... 5 points
............................. SPAIN ... 5 points
........................... FRANCE ... 4 points
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
...................... TURKEY ... 3 points ... Congratulations for No. 2 " We could be the same" COPY
Turkey’s maNga …CHEATED … by using
… THE …TWO [2] … KEY words .......... eyes .......... surprise
from the LYRICS of GREECE'S ... ESC 2009 "This is our night"
-- words, that made a … BIG difference to their song, too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, the Turkish ESC outcome of No. 2.... was a COPY … GREEK-style
from both a SONG and ARTIST (Sakis Rouvas ) that deserved a better result LAST YEAR !!!!!
And, for the record, Hadise was just as much a DISASTER then as Safura was, this year.
SURPRISED??? ……Well, it is all in the … EYES ….
(and, obviously, MY …good ORIGINAL musical ear, because I noticed)
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
Continuing now, with a big THANK YOU to:
................ NETHERLANDS ... 3 points
...........................ARM ENIA ... 3 points
..........................MOLD OVA ... 2 points
.............................P OLAND ... 1 point
GREECE - 140 POINTS / WON 8th place
....and done WITHOUT VOTES …from Baltic states(!!) OR ex-Soviets (!!!)
Thank you, Europe, for appreciating ORIGINAL --Ethnic Pop-- MUSIC
................ "Everybody say: "OPAAAAAAAA" !!!!!!!
ARTIST’S CLIP: http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=s5lns1JmEN4
SF1 Live! Performance: http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=CZ3MwZQpjco
What makes this song ORIGINAL --- it was sung in GREEK !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you to Giorgos Alkaios & Friends for entertaining Europe
with that professional and ... ENERGETIC ...Greek-style performance
of ... "OPA" !!!.
The ROARING applause …AND … CHEERING said it all…
and the IMPRESSION was a … WINNING one!!!
WELL DONE, GREECE !!!!!!!!!!! … the ORIGINAL
Again, Congratulations to Germany’s Lena ! After all, “Satellite” did WIN.
although the figures are low compared to the population (15 million v 80 million) but look at the audience share! - 50%, thats a lot for a country like Germany!
The viewing figure in the UK was only 5.5 million, the lowest ever. It had a 24% audience share but was up against the last auditions for Britain's Got Talent on ITV1 and it is also a bank holiday weekend when audience figures are traditionally at their lowest.
Nigel Holland-Williams
You're so right. Keep politics and prejudices out of ESC and esctoday. Don't violate the true spirit of this music contest.
Honey Delphia Hellas you were brainstormed by the Greek TV stations which showed Lena's video and called it a "porn" video. Well, for your information it wasn't. I wish you could understand the meaning of the artist and the actor.
Lena is an amazing person, not a bimbo like Saksi Rouvas.
Delphia Hellas
You sound a bit bitter. Sorry for your bad mood.
Btw. I called for Giorgos 3 times. He had a great song and performance. But the majority of votes were received by another song and singer. C'est la vie. I also had to respect the outcome of ESC 2001, 2006, 2008 (songs I don't like very much).
Different people - different tastes. I'm looking forward to ESC 2011 because ............... ESC RULEZ!
It is disusting how ESCTODAY carries on allowing abusive and racist comments to be posted. Come on guys get real will you! We all have our own thoughts and feelings and views but to be rude, arrogant and racist clearly goes against what Eurovision stands for.
Keep your racist and rude comments to yourself regardless of whether you are from the West or the East.
@ Delphia Hellas... Exeis xasei ti mpala, e? chill out...
And by the way Christina, I don't think that Mrs Angela Merkel should go as far as to claim, as she did, that Lena should be a role model for the german youth, after seeing some scenes of this very young girl on tv, of Lena being nude in some tv show doing unproper XX scenes on the pool.I would definetely NOT call her a role model for any youth, sorry Mrs Merkel.
Christina@
You should respect different taste, you cannot call people bad loosers because they do not like amaturish Idol acts winning Eurovision .Lena has an awful irritating voice, she moves ungracefully and weird, the song is modern but forgettable , boring, repetiteve and without impact.One of the worst winners ever in Eurovision imo, and I am not happy that this win might open doors for unprofessional amaturish acts with voiceless youngsters who think they are world famous artists and acting as such, with bodyguards and snobbish attitudes. Lena is more fitter for Junior Eurovsion and that is MY opinion. And it is my opinion she was voted by the very young age-ranges, Lena's performance was so amaturish in every way and most forgettable. Pity that the superior and more professional acts were rewarded less then this nonsense from Germany.
Congragulations to Lena. She deserved it.
Some here please dont behave as bad loosers.
Jessy Sáᴻders ✿ divisive me [44580] Sun 30 May 2010 13:37:36
GUNEC GULUN.. "Thank you Europe, thank you for believing that we could be the same..."
Is that so? Well do not think so and Europe just proved it.. that's why maNga did not win
And your (lol) "beauty"is just a EPIC failure EVER happened in the history of Eurovision with their 10,000,000$ and fake bets Congratulations... next yeyar better! Lmao :]
Jessy
We were (at least I was not) not expecting to win for sure, but points we got from all over Europe (Ireland,Malta, Albania, Belgium,Spain, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Norway, Lithuania, Ireland, Germany, Georgia, France, Finland, Macedonia, Estonia, Denmark, Croatia (12 pts fm Croatia waooaa thank you),Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, FYR Macedonia, Belarus, Albania and B@H) made me think that our boys did stg right (I suggest you watch the performance again) and made me wanna thank Europe. Second place is a real success among such amazing songs. And about Azerbaijan, she sang that extremely hard song like a nightingale and people of Europe (please don't make me list the countries ) rewarded her with their votes (you know you can not buy people's televotes can you?). Again as I said before the competition was really tough and a Top 5 place is a real success.
I once again want to congratulate everybody for those fantastic songs and shows ESPECIALLY LENA She really deserved it...
Vote now, Lena needs you
http://www.esc-lyrics.blogspot.com/
I have the feeling the very young ages voted more in masses in the western Europe, ages 15-20, since those age ranges would vote more for Germany's song and those ages would vote more for such an amaturish performer like Lena. She acted and sounded like some Idol audition participant, bad irritating vocals, unprofessional stage presentation.I did not like Satellite as a song, might be modern sounding and has an Amy Winehouse sound which I hate, but it will be a forgettable winner due to the very amaturish presentation, the horrible annoying voice and the amaturish young girl performing it, more suited for Junior Eurovision. Pity since there were at least 20 better songs and stage presentations then Lena's boring song and ackward voice. I don't want Eurovision to go downhill and award such amaturish graceless acts, the girl can't sing, she can't move with grace, the song is forgettable and repetitive without impact. In my book, among the worst winners ever .And a question, why does a 19 year old girl needs bodyguards? Saw scenes on tv she was followed everywhere by bodyguards and refused interviews, what an odd image for such a young girl, I mean she is an unkown girl, not Beyonce,lol.
I think I want LED screens in Germany too - at least they got colours. Just don't overdo the pattern like in Moscow. Or at least something similar to USFO. The background in Oslo wasn't very good and the lights were too bright/cold toned. Also too much use of blue which is typical NRK. I bet Berlin (?) will be much better!
Nice to see the increased interest in Germany, but I wish more adults voted too. Something tells me it's mostly young people, teens. 
@dimitris calling
what are you doing with the swedish flag on your avatar?
I lost a bet vs. 'Patte Linouuu', I told him that Sweden will qualify from Semi2, but he said that Sweden won't qualify and now I must use the Swedish flag as my avatar for a few days! If Sweden would qualify then he'd use the Turkish flag as avatar!
yesterday 14.7 million Germans watched the final which was a record.
Even if it's a record, it's still too low, don't forget that Germany is a country with many immigrants, and if we'd count them, too, then we know, that Eurovision isn't interested among the German ppl so much! :/
UK figures:
average 5.5m (24%) incl. HD: 5.8m (25.5%)
peak: 7.8m (43.2%) at 23:00
started at 3.7 million, due to a clash with britains got talent (that got 9.6 million) but grew, and after britains got talent ended eurovision was in the 6 million mark
(figures are usually a bit lower during bank holidays which is happening this year )
but a lot lower than the last 10 years:
2009 - 7.8m (35%) * peak: 9.8m (52%)
2008 - 7.1m (35%) * peak: 9.3m (50%)
2007 - 8.7m (40%) * peak: 10.9m (53%)
2006 - 8.2m (37%) * peak: 10.6m
2005 - 7.9m (39%) * peak: 9.4m
2004 - 8.3m (42%)
2003 - 7.9m (38%) * peak: 10.8m
2002 - 7.8m (36%) * peak: 10.9m (54%)
2001 - 6.9m (37%)
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