{"id":813696,"date":"2026-10-25T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:48:11","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%b9-italy-just-over-20000-viewers-for-junior-eurovision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813696\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy: Just Over 20,000 Viewers for Junior Eurovision 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just over 20,000 viewers followed the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 live on Rai Gulp, its lowest figure since 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 21,000 viewers watched on Rai Gulp as Italy competed in the 24th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. This figure gives Junior Eurovision 2026 a 0.1% share of viewers in its time slot. The number of viewers has fallen over 310,000 viewers compared to the equivalent show in 2025, the fall in viewers is due to a shift in TV channel from Rai 2 to its childrens channel Rai Gulp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matteo Trullu represented Italy at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 \u201cChe Cos\u2019\u00e8 l\u2019Amore?\u201d where he placed eleventh. Italy placed 10th with the juries scoring 41 points, and joint 13th with the public scoring 43 points. Italy\u2019s highest points came in the form of 10 points from the French jury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/antoniogenna.com\/2026\/10\/25\/ieri-e-oggi-in-tv-la-serata-di-sabato-24-ottobre-2026-tu-si-que-vales-a-35-milioni-234-ballando-con-le-stelle-al-245-affari-tuoi-al-239\/#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Genna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Italy debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2014. Their first and only win to date was on their debut when Vincenzo Cantiello came in 1st place with 159 points with his song \u201cTu primo grande amore\u201d. Their worst result was in 2015 when twins Chiara &amp; Martina came 16th with 34 points with their song \u201cViva\u201d. Since their debut, Italy has participated in every contest except for 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over 20,000 viewers followed the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 live on Rai Gulp, its lowest figure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,33958,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}