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The 2024 Sanremo Song Festival ended
with a bang on Saturday night, attracting an average of 14.301
million viewers to State broadcaster Rai's flagship Rai1 channel
on the final night, in which Angelina Mango was proclaimed the
winner.
The was 74.1% of the overall TV audience, the highest audience
share on the final night since the 1995 festival presented by
Pippo Baudo got 75.22%.
It was up from 12.256 million viewers, 66% of the audience, last
year.
The 74th Sanremo Festival, the fifth presented by artistic
director Amadeus, got big viewing figures every night since its
started on Tuesday, confirming its popularity and status as a
national institution and its importance as a platform for
Italian music artists.
Mango, 22, will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest
thanks to the triumph.
So the 2024 festival will go down as a success, with some
moments of controversy doing nothing to dent public interest and
perhaps even increasing it.
These included Amadeus and comedian Fiorello getting John
Travolta to do the fad Chicken Dance during a guest star
appearance.
Some fans protested that the 71-year-old Saturday Night Fever,
Grease and Pulp Fiction star had been humiliated and Fiorello
subsequently admitted that it had been "one of the most terrible
gags in the history of TV".
Furthermore, Rai has said it is running legal checks for
possible unauthorized product placement after Travolta appeared
on stage at the Ariston Theatre wearing a noted brand of
trainers whose logo had not been pixellated out.
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