SVT Returns Melodifestivalen to SVT1 Following Massive Viewer Outcry

SVT has reversed its decision to move the final minutes of Melodifestivalen heats to its streaming platform after receiving significant viewer complaints.Project manager Anders Wistbacka confirmed that the entire competition will return to the linear channel SVT1 starting with the next event in Gothenburg.The controversy arose during the first heat in Linköping where the linear broadcast was cut before the group A-Teens was announced as a finalist.