A average of 9.836 million
viewers, or 54.5% of the overall audience share, watched the
third night of Italy's popular Sanremo song festival on State
broadcaster RAI's flagship Rai1 channel, according to data
released Friday on the previous night.
It was the highest audience share registered by the festival
since 1997, when popular presenter Mike Bongiorno conducted the
event with Piero Chiambretti, garnering 55.5%.
The evening was dedicated to the most successful songs in the
festival's history and included an appearance by comedian and
director Roberto Benigni, who won an Academy Award for Life Is
Beautiful.
The third evening of the festival last year totaled 9.409
million viewers, 46.7% of the share.
Roman singer Tosca (Tiziana Donati) won the evening dedicated
to cover songs that paid homage to the 70 years of the festival.
Piero Pelù and the band Pinguini Tattici Nucleari came
respectively second and third on the night.
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