Finnish national broadcaster Ale has announced the commentators and international broadcast of Uden Mushkin Killpile 2024.
A total of 11 commentators will provide commentary on UMK 2024 in 9 languages. Commentators and languages are:
- Finnish: Mikko Silvenoinen
- Swedish: Johan Lindros & Eva Franz
- English: Jaakko Oleander-Turja
- Northern Sami: Linda Tanmela
- Inari Sami: Heli Fovinen
- Ukrainian: Galina Sergeyeva
- Finnish Sign Language (singing only): Miguel Pertomá
- Finnish Sign Language (Dialogue): Silva Belaitti
- Finland – Swedish Sign Language: Robin Hänninen
- Russian: Levan Tvartvadze
For the first time, the commentary will be in Finnish-Swedish Sign Language. Finnish-Swedish Sign Language is spoken by about 300 people from the deaf community in the Swedish-speaking regions of southern and western Finland. Although this language is on the verge of extinction and is not as widely used as Finnish Sign Language, efforts are being made to promote and preserve this language.
UMK 2024 will be broadcast on Yle TV 1 and Yle Arena, as well as on some TV stations outside Finland. The following stations will also broadcast UMK 2024.
- TV3 (Estonia)
- Ten TV (Spain)
- OutTV (Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Israel)
The 2024 edition of UMK will be held on February 10th at the Nokia Arena in Tampere. The 13,455-capacity Nokia Arena is Finland’s largest indoor arena and the largest venue to date to have hosted UMK. In addition to competing performances, there will also be guest performances by Erika Vikman, Kaaliya, KUUMAA, and Benjmain.
The lineup is as follows.
- Sini Sabotage – “Quoli Mua” (Peel Me)
- Cyan Kicks – “Dancing with Demons”
- Jesse Merkin “Glow”
- Michael Gabriel x nublu – “Vox Populi”
- Sarah Siipola – “Pascana” (shit)
- Sex Mane – “Mania”
- Windows95man – “There are no rules”
Image source: Yle/Nelli Kentä/Miska Voinoff | Source:UMK
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