Over 10 million viewer votes were cast for the participants of "Eurovision-2009"

August 10, Minsk /BELTA/. "Eurovision 2009" became a record-breaking event in terms of the number of votes cast by TV viewers. Over 10 million viewer votes were registered for the participants of the contest in Moscow. This information was published on the official website of the international song contest, reports a BELTA correspondent. This year, 10,680,682 votes were received from viewers. This figure exceeded last year's result by 20% - then 8,825,527 phone calls and SMS messages were registered. During the two semi-finals and the final, Digame, the company responsible for processing votes, recorded 6,162,749 SMS messages and 4,517,933 phone calls. In the final of "Eurovision 2009", there were 1.5 million more votes than in the final of last year's contest. It was previously reported that this year the audience of Europe's largest TV show was record-breaking - over 125 million viewers. -0-