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Budget Day
stichting kijkonderzoek
Budget Day 2017
Wednesday, 20 September 2017 - 12:10

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Fewer Dutch watched live TV broadcast of Budget Day

A total of 905 thousand people tuned in to watch the live broadcast of Budget Day on Tuesday, fewer than in previous years, according to figures from Stichting KijkOnderzoek, NU.nl reports.

Last year 962 thousand people watched Budget Day on TV. In 2015 there were 1.2 million watchers and 983 thousand in 2014.

In 2013, King Willem-Alexander's first Budget Day, a massive 1.5 million people watched the Budget Day live broadcast, making it the best watched Budget Day broadcast in a decade.

Balkonscène Paleis Noordeinde #Prinsjesdag https://t.co/MCJua95Adk pic.twitter.com/bjA9b4Z9Jq

— Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis) September 19, 2017

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