RTVE has confirmed that the Benidorm Fest festival will take place next year, in 2027, to celebrate its sixth edition. Something that, as has happened this year, will happen regardless of whether or not the public corporation participates in Eurovision again. “Long live Benidorm Fest. We will have this sixth edition with the support of the City Council and the Valencian Generalitat,” María Eizaguirre, director of , confirmed to the press this Sunday. The president of the corporation, José Pablo López, had already published a message on
The final held this Saturday at the Palau d’Esports L’Illa in Benidorm, the first unrelated to Eurovision, with a screen quota and just over a million viewers. Of course, it was the leader in its time slot among all audiences and brought together more than 4 million unique viewers. Where La 1 did achieve great data with this final on Saturday was in the younger audience. Among viewers between 23 and 24 years old, its audience shot up to a huge 21%. And it was even better among those between 24 and 44 years old: 28.4% of share.
Eizaguirre has defended that Benidorm Fest “is a social phenomenon that goes far beyond the screen” and that “television consumption has varied greatly”, with factors this same weekend such as Carnival that could “distort the final data pure and simple”. The communications director of RTVE has insisted that the Benidorm Fest continues to take steps, that it has taken a leap in quality this year “after finding new partners” and that it “continues to establish itself as a festival with its own entity.” “Right now it is the largest music festival in our country, what we have managed to do is very difficult,” he concluded.
Eizaguirre also announced that he received 46,000 votes through calls, SMS and the RTV Play app. , were the most supported by the public with 11,000 votes and thanks to popular support they received 150,000 euros in prize money (100,000 euros for the performers and 50,000 euros for the authors of the song).
