It has been announced that the UMK 2024 final will be broadcast live in Spain and Estonia.
UMK 2024 will be broadcast internationally, with live broadcasts announced in Estonia and Spain. TEN TV has announced that it will broadcast the contest for viewers in Spain, and TEN has been broadcasting the contest from Finland since 2022.
In Estonia, TV3 secured broadcast rights with the participation of Estonian rapper nublu. Anu Sargim and Robin Ukenthal have been confirmed as the commentary team, and TV3 is also sending a team to report from Tampere.
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. The show will be hosted by singer Benjamin Peltonen, comedian Pirvi Hamalainen and actor and TV presenter Vivi Punpanen.
The execution order 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”
Kariya represented Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with “Cha Cha Cha”. He won Semi-Final 1 with 177 TV voting points. In the grand final, Karja’s total of 526 points (376 TV voting points, 150 jury points) placed him in second place, giving Finland the second best result ever.
Image source: Yle/Nelli Kentä/Miska Voinoff | Source: TV3, ten tv
Finland first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961, debuting alongside Spain and Yugoslavia. Finland finished last in this contest 10 times and received “invalid points” three times. Finland won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. Rhodey represented his country in Athens, scoring a then-record total of 292 points with the song “Hard Rock Hallelujah.”
