Millennium fever.(television networks plan blanket coverage of the new year)

Broadcasting & Cable, December, 1999 by McClellan, Steve

Television networks to provide extensive coverage of Y2K events The major news networks will devote thousands of people and millions of their program budgets to cover the world's millennium festivities in the week leading upto the new year. Among the major commercial broadcast networks, ABC has plans for the most ambitious single program--a live 24-hour broadcast that will start in the pre-dawn hours (ET) of New Year's Eve.

Coverage will begin just before midnight strikes in the South Pacific, where the new millennium first arrives at the international date line. NBC and CBS are planning coverage throughout the day, with hourly updates and extensive programming during regular news shows. Among the cable news networks, CNN is putting together a...

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