Media
Coverage Of The Opera
The concert in Egypt will receive unprecented television
coverage, reaching an approximate 3.5 billion viewers. French channel M6
will broadcast the entire main act at 00.05 on New Year's Day.
There are
two major television network consortiums covering the global millennium
celebrations, and both will be covering the show in Egypt as part of their
programming.
The show
has been signed up as part of a gala year-end TV special called Millennium
Live … Humanity's Broadcast, produced by PAX TV and Millennium Television
Network, producers of Live Aid.
The production
will showcase New Year's Eve celebrations from the world's 24 time zones
and will also feature artists such as Sting, Phil Collins and Mike Oldfield.
All the components from around the globe will be mixed together in Los
Angeles and distributed worldwide through the broadcast partners.
Confirmed
channels across the globe include Bandeirantes/Brazil; ZeeTV/India; Telecinco/Spain;
SAT1/Germany; SABC/South Africa; VIBE TV/Japan; Nine Network/Australia;
City TV/Canada; Venevision/Venezuela and France Televisio. Currently 110
countries are committed to air the program.
The second
network is being led by the BBC, titled 2000 Today. This broadcast is being
picked up by over 60 channels across the globe
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