''2000 Today'' was an internationally broadcast

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to commemorate the beginning of the Year 2000. This program included

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celebrations, musical performances, and other features from participating nations. Most international broadcasts such as the Olympic Games coverage originate from a limited area for worldwide distribution. ''2000 Today'' was rare in that its live and taped programming originated from member countries and represented all continents including Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and North America & Oceania.

Development

''2000 Today'' was conceived as part of the

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, given the numerical significance of the change from 1999 to 2000. ''2000 Today'' was commissioned by the BBC as one of the five main millennium projects that were broadcast across TV, radio and online services throughout 1999 and 2000. Most nations that observe the Islamic calendar were not involved in ''2000 Today''. However, a few predominantly Muslim nations were represented among the programme's worldwide broadcasters such as Egypt ( ERTU) and Indonesia (

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). Africa was minimally represented in ''2000 Today''. The only participating nations from that continent were Egypt and South Africa. Portugal-based RTP África distributed the programme to some African nations.

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was mentioned on the programme schedule, although it was unclear if ''2000 Today'' coverage was recorded or live.

Production

The programme was produced and televised by an international

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of 60 broadcasters, headed by the

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in the UK and WGBH (Now known as GBH) in Boston, United States. The

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also included representatives from

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(Australia), CBC (Canada),

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(China), ETC (Egypt), RTL (Germany), SABC (South Africa), TF1 (France), TV Asahi (Japan), TV Globo (Brazil) and

(USA). The BBC provided the production hub for receiving and distributing the 78 international satellite feeds required for this broadcast. The

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for the programme were designed in the UK by

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and the BBC for use by all the participating broadcasters taking part in the event. The linking theme throughout all the idents and promotions was a distinctively shaped stone engraved with the year 2000. The themes were: desert, fire, ice, lasers and water; plus a special BBC News ident. Up to 5,000 staff worked on ''2000 Today'', 1,500 of them in

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in West London, where all eight television studios were used during the 28-hour broadcast. Each participant financed and produced its own contributions and shared the core costs proportionately to its size and wealth. It is estimated to have cost $6 million to produce and broadcast. ''2000 Today'' was nominated for "Best Visual Effects and Graphic Design" at the

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Program timeline

''2000 Today's'' core international broadcast was 28 hours long, following the beginning of the New Year 2000 across the world's time zones. The programme was tailored by individual broadcasters to provide local content and hosts. The broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom started on 31 December 1999 at 09:15 UTC. ''2000 Today'' started its international feed at 09:40 UTC, with the Kiribati Line Islands celebrating the arrival of 2000 at 10:00 UTC. Most of Europe celebrated midnight at 23:00 UTC. Broadcasting celebrations from many countries under Central European Time posed a particularly complex broadcast challenge. ''2000 Today'' chose to rapidly air each nation's midnight observances in succession, using tape delays in most cases. This hour of the broadcast included a blessing by

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from Vatican City and the pyrotechnic display of the

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in Paris. ''ABC 2000 Today'' however decided to use Paris for its broadcast in the United States while French broadcasters TF1 and

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covered the festivities live from the Eiffel Tower. In addition, Italian broadcaster Rai used the pope's blessing for its ''Millennium - La Notte Del 2000'' broadcast. ''2000 Today's'' international feed finished shortly after midnight celebrations were broadcast from Samoa on 1 January 2000 at 11:00 UTC. BBC One in the United Kingdom continued to broadcast with national features until 13:30. Later the same evening, it aired a two-hour highlights programme, ''The Best of 2000 Today''.

Personalities

National hosts

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** Coro de Buenos Aires **

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and

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* Australia (

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** Mike Bailey ** Andrea Stretton ** Caroline Baum ** John Lombard ** Jennifer Byrne **

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** Daniel Marsden ** Peter Thompson ** Kathy Bowlen *

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**( Rede Record) *** Boris Casoy *** Eliana *** José Luiz Datena *** Eleonora Paschoal *** Virgínia Nowicki *** Dalton Vigh *** Fábio Jr ***

Raul Gil Raul Gil (born January 27, 1938) is a Brazilian television presenter and singer. With a career spanning over 50 years, Gil has become one of the most famous Brazilian television presenters. He currently presents his own weekly program on SBT chan ...

** ( BAND) *** Otaviano Costa *** Márcia Peltier *** Fernando Vannucci *** Susana Alves *** Marcos Hummel *** Luciano do Valle *** Silvia Poppovic *

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** ( CBC) *** Peter Mansbridge (primary host, most hours) *** Laurie Brown (00:00–08:00 UTC, with Mansbridge) *** Alison Smith (13:00–18:00 UTC) ** ( Radio-Canada) *** At the time, technicians at Radio-Canada were on strike. Transmissions were seen as scheduled, but using only the main feed from the BBC, with a French voice-over. Also, as a consequence, 2000 footage from Canada was scarce on SRC's presentation, while footage from Quebec was not available at all worldwide (though the CBC did manage to get the only Quebec coverage on their own network—a video shot of midnight fireworks in

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, shot from

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, Ontario). *

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( TVN) ** Jennifer Warner ** Mauricio Bustamante ** Jorge Hevia **

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Karen Doggenweiler Karen Sylvia Doggenweiler Puente (born August 27, 1969 in Puelche) is a popular Chilean journalist and TV presenter. Doggenweiler is the daughter of Félix Doggenweiler Heim, of Swiss-German descent and Silvia Lapuente, of Spanish- Aragonese ...

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** Pedro Carcuro ** Rafael Araneda ** Andrea Molina *

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( RCN Televisión) ** Claudia Gurisatti ** William Calderón ** Iñaki Berrueta *

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** Bernd Fuchs ** Heiner Bremer ** Michael Karr ** Birgit von Bentzel *

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** Joe Duffy *

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** Valeria Marini ** Clarissa Burt *

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** German Moreno ** Angelique Lazo ** Vicky Morales ** Paolo Bediones **

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** Arnold Clavio ** Mickey Ferriols **

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** KC Montero ** Suzi Entrata ** Kara David **

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** Luchi Cruz-Valdes ** Ninna Castro ** Lyn Ching ** Margaux Salcedo ** Arnell Ignacio ** Susan Enriquez ** Tisha Silang **

Antoinette Taus Antoinette Cherish Flores Taus (born August 30, 1981) is a Filipino-American television/movie/theater actress, singer, host, commercial model, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador and Founder of a non-profit called CORA Philippines. Taus formerly worked ...

** Francis Magalona **

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** Martin Andanar ** Butch Francisco **

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( RTP) ** José Rodrigues dos Santos ** Manuela Moura Guedes *

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** Vlad Ryashyn ( Inter) ** Svitlana Leontyeva ( Inter) ** Yuriy Makarov ( 1+1) * United Kingdom ( BBC One) ** David Dimbleby ** Michael Parkinson ** Michael Buerk **

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** Peter Snow **

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** Jamie Theakston ** Gaby Roslin ** Huw Edwards **

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** Tim Vincent ** Siân Lloyd **

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** Kirsty Wark **

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** Dale Winton ** Steve Wilson ** Emma Ledden ** Katy Hill ** Alan Dedicoat *

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** Connie Chung **

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** Carole Simpson **

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Music performers

Musical artists were part of the ''2000 Today'' broadcast, including: ;Africa * Jean Michel Jarre –

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, Ukraine *

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– London, England, United Kingdom *

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– London, England, United Kingdom ;North America *

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, Florida, United States * Juan Gabriel –

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– St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada *

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, Ontario, Canada ;Oceania *

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– Gisborne, New Zealand ;South America * Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – Ushuaia, Argentina *

and

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– Iguazú Falls, Argentina *

and Estudio Coral de Buenos Aires – Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina

Participating broadcasters

The following nations broadcast ''2000 Today''. Some nations were licensees of the broadcast, rather than formal members of the broadcast consortium. *Argentina: El Trece *Australia:

*Austria: ORF *Belgium: VRT (Dutch) and RTBF (French) *Brazil: Rede Record and BAND *Canada: CBC (English) and Radio-Canada (French) *Cape Verde: RTP África *Colombia: RCN TV and Teveandina Canal 13 *Caribbean: CBU *Chile: TVN and Chilevisión *China:

*Czech Republic: ČT *Denmark: DR and TV3 *Ecuador: Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, Telesistema,

TC Televisión TC Televisión is a state-owned television network in Ecuador. The network was founded in 1969 and was commercially funded for many years until 2011 when The Isaias Group went into a lawsuit and was sold to a state government unit, Since then the ...

Gamavisión Gamavisión is a state-owned Ecuadorian television network. The network was one of Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest prod ...

, SíTV and ETV Telerama *Egypt: ETV *Estonia: TV3 *Fiji: Fiji TV *Finland: YLE *France: TF1 *Germany: RTL *Greece: ERT *Guinea-Bissau: RTP África *Hong Kong: STAR TV, ATV, TVB, Phoenix Television, and CETV *Hungary:

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( MTV1, selected coverage;

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, full coverage) *Iceland: IBC *India:

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and Zee TV *Indonesia:

*Ireland:

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*Israel: IBA and ICP *Italy: RAI, Italia 1,

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and

Canale 5 Canale 5 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel of Mediaset, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980. On 4 December 2012, Mediaset launched Canale 5 HD, a ...

*Japan: TV Asahi *Jordan: JRTC *Lebanon:

*Lithuania: TV3 *Macau: TDM (possibly also Channel 32 and Channel 30) *Malaysia: RTM, STMB, Mega TV and

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*Malta: Super One *Mexico: Once TV *Mozambique: RTP África *Netherlands: NPO *New Zealand: TV3 *Norway:

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and TV3 *Oman: Oman TV *Panama:

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*Paraguay:

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and La Tele *Peru: Panamericana Televisión, América Televisión, Frecuencia Latina, ATV and Global Televisión *Philippines:

*Poland: TVP *Portugal: RTP *Romania: Antena 1 (licensee) *Russia: VGTRK and Prometey AST *Samoa: Samoa TV *São Tomé and Príncipe: RTP África *Singapore: TCS, CNA, STV12 and SCV *Slovakia: (licensee) *Slovenia: POP TV (licensee) *South Africa: SABC *South Korea: MBC *Spain:

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*Sri Lanka:

*Sweden: TV3 and SVT *Switzerland:

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*Taiwan: TTV,

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, FTV and PTS *Thailand: BBTV Channel 7 *Tonga: TBC *Ukraine: Novyi Kanal, Inter, 1+1 *United Kingdom:

*United States:

and PBS *Uruguay:

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and TNU *Vietnam: VTV and HTV *Venezuela:

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Recorded time broadcasts

*Longest time broadcasts: HTV (34 hours) * Shortest time broadcasts: VTV (6 hours)

Ratings

''2000 Today'' had an estimated worldwide audience of 800 million people, with an audience of 12.6 million people on the

alone.

Soundtrack

''2000 Today: A World Symphony for the Millennium'' is a television

soundtrack album A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show. The first such album to be commercially released was Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' ...

of music commissioned by the BBC for its internationally broadcast television special, ''2000 Today'' and released by Sony Classical Records in December 1999. The music was composed and conducted by multi award-winning composer Tan Dun, and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Voices choir, New London Children's Choir, and a group of world instrument performers from around the world. It was featured on PBS and ABC throughout the promotions leading up to the broadcast and throughout the broadcast itself, providing musical "stepping stones" from country to country, culture to culture, day to night. The programme's theme song was a cover version of

Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements ...

's song " One Love" performed by the Gipsy Kings, Ziggy Marley,

Tsidii Le Loka Tsidii Le Loka-Lupindo (born April 3, 1968, in Lesotho) is an actress, vocalist and composer from South Africa and The Kingdom of Lesotho. She is best known for originating the role of Rafiki in the original Broadway production of Disney's stage m ...

and the Boys Choir of Harlem. This version was released as a single in Europe. "One Love" was performed live by Gipsy Kings as part of the broadcast from Miami, Florida.

Track listing

Personnel

*Tan Dun – composer, conductor, producer *Charles Harbutt – engineer, post production *Mary Lou Humphrey –

liner notes Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for cassettes. Origin Liner notes are des ...

*Photonica – photographer *FPG International – photographer *Grace Row – producer

References

External links

* *
CBC archive of New Year's Eve 2000
* {{New Year New Year's television specials 1999 television specials 2000 television specials Simulcasts Turn of the third millennium International broadcasting International telecommunications