Coletta, the Maneskins from Sanremo are freedom

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 23 - '' A great satisfaction '', Stefano Coletta, director of Raiuno, who took over the network in January 2020 and led the most difficult Sanremo Festival in history, won surprisingly by Maneskin, does not hide it who now do an encore at Eurovision, collect the success of the ratings and bring the European festival to Italy for the next edition.

    '' You read so many things when you are legitimately in the direction of the most viewed channel - says Coletta to ANSA with a bit of bitterness -, a channel that I took a few days before the outbreak of the pandemic. The data shows that in 2020 we have exceeded the ratings of 2019, and now the whole day we are above 2020. A network that had to adapt the entertainment to very strict rules for the covid '' '' Last night I was thrilled to see the scenic smoke so important for a musical performance, it was a liberation '', just as it was a liberation for the audience of us Italians, the victory of the Maneskin. Amadeus wanted them strongly in Sanremo and his was a great intuition, ''. ''I was reflecting last night - adds the director - that Eurovision was born imitating Sanremo and after all the Maneskins represented among all the code of freedom that coincided with the freedom that we all invoke after a year. ''.

    As for Rai '', besides the victory in the ratings, the result is symbolically the representation of the fact that in Sanremo we have managed to bring more generations in front of the screen. The 25% share of Eurovision (ed. With 4 million 512 thousand viewers), had never reached it, is always below 20% (ed. It goes from 9.1% in 2013, to 16.8% in 2016, up to 19.6% in 2019) then the wonderful thing is that in the last two hours the audience curve rises and reaches 45% share, gathering in front of the TV everyone really transversely, everyone wanted to participate in this choral party '' . Now next year it will be the turn of Raiospitare Eurovision, have you already thought of something? '' Honestly, for good luck we did not want to think about it until today ''. (HANDLE).