While New Year’s Eve twelve months earlier was a global TV affair, coverage going into 2001 was a little more subdued — limited to just Sydney’s fireworks display, across both Nine and Ten networks.
SBS maintains its traditional New Year’s Eve broadcast of the classic German comedy Dinner For One.
Digital television was also due to start at midnight but with few digital receivers in the market it was introduced with barely a mention.
(This listing excludes community Channel 31 which is not listed in TV Week)
Source: TV Week, 30 December 2000
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| 6AM | Rage (cont’d) | 6am Jam TV 6.30 Religion |
6am Turn Round Australia 6.30 Marriage |
6am Mass For You At Home 6.30 Hillsong Australia Life Is For Living |
6am Worldwatch. 6am L-Ahberijiet, 6.30 Pangunahing Balita, 7am Hungarian News, 7.30 Visnyk Ukrainy, 8am Arabic News, 8.30 Weatherwatch, 8.55 Oto Polska, 9.30 Esta Semana, 10am Italia News |
| 7AM | 7am Brambly Hedge 7.25 Spot’s Musical Adventures 7.30 Babar 7.55 Kitu And Woofl |
7am Wicked 7.30 Time Masters |
7am Challenger 7.30 Download |
7am The Big Cheez. Includes The New Woody Woodpecker, X-Men | |
| 8AM | 8am Stickin’ Around 8.25 Koki 8.30 Archibald The Koala 8.55 Small Stories |
8am Amazing 8.30 Wipeout |
8am Special: Oscar Night With Barbara Walters | 8am Video Hits | |
| 9AM | 9am The Genie From Down Under 9.25 Lisa 9.30 Sunday Basketball |
9am Golf: Jack Newton’s Celebrity Golf Challenge | 9am Nobel Achieving Peace And Overcoming Poverty | ||
| 10AM | 10am Tennis: Hopman Cup 2001. Day 1 10.30 Gardening Australia |
10am British Animal Hospital 10.30 European Microflight Championships |
10.30 Italian Soccer League | ||
| 11AM | 11am Songs Of Praise 11.25 Compass |
11am Rush TV | 11am Spirit Of The Western Shore | 11am Planet X 11.30 NBL Zone |
11.30 Holiday Festival On Ice |
| 12PM | 12pm The Best Of Landline | 12pm Movie: Meet Me In St Louis. 1945 [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: 55 Days At Peking. 1963 [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: Houseboat. 1958 [IMDB] | 12.30am Movie: Nutty Boy. 1994 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm Tennis: Hopman Cup 2001. Day 1 | ||||
| 2PM | 2.25 Movie: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. 1954 [IMDB] | 2.05 Movie: Fort Apache. 1948 [IMDB] | 2pm Special: Africa’s Child 2.30 Sportswoman |
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| 3PM | 3pm Movie: The Real Macaw. 1998 [IMDB] | 3pm Rebel TV 3.30 World Football |
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| 4PM | 4.30 Totally Wild Rescue | 4pm The Asia Sport Show 4.30 Under One Roof (Singapore) |
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| 5PM | 5pm Songs Of Praise 5.25 Compass |
5pm Cosby 5.30 Seven News Special: New Year 2000 |
5pm Anatomy Of Disaster | 5pm Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight |
5pm Speedweek |
| 6PM | 6pm Seven News 6.30 Harry’s Practice |
6pm National Nine News 6.30 Backyard Blitz |
6pm The Pepsi Chart. Tory Mussett 6.30 The SImpsons |
6pm The Movie Show (Rpt) 6.30 World News |
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| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 New Year’s Eve Special: The Proms Gala Opening. Simulcast ABCFM |
7pm Movie: James And The Giant Peach. 1996 [IMDB] | 7pm Changing Rooms 7.30 Charles Wooley’s Continental Drift |
7.30 Movie: Uncle Buck. 1989 [IMDB] | 7pm Dinner For One (Germany) 7.20 Movie: Animal Farm. 1955 [IMDB] |
| 8PM | 8.40 Movie: Quiz Show. 1994 [IMDB] | 8.35 Opera: Die Fledermaus (Germany) | |||
| 9PM | 9.30 Movie: Hear My Song. 1991 [IMDB] | 9am New Year’s Eve 2000. Richard Wilkins. Live from Sydney Opera House | 9.30 NYE Live. Includes Sydney Harbour fireworks | ||
| 10PM | 10pm Movie: Two Came Back. 1997 [IMDB] | ||||
| 11PM | 11.10 Jonathan Miller’s Opera Works 11.55 Movie: Ill Met By Moonlight. 1957 (B&W) [IMDB] |
11.25 Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout | 11.55 Welcome To 2001: New Year’s Eve Fireworks | 11.20 Movie: May I Introduce Myself? Rocco Papaleo. 1971 (Italy) [IMDB] | |
| 12AM | 12.15am Movie: Imagine — John Lennon. 1988 [IMDB] | 12.30am Cops | |||
| 1AM | 1.40 Movie: Turn The Key Softly. 1953 [IMDB] | 1.15am Special: The 100 Best Films In 100 Years | 1am Sunset Beach | 1.10am Movie: Midnight. 1998 (Brazil) [IMDB] | |
| 2AM | 2.15 Mortal Kombat | 2.25 Close | |||
| 3AM | 3am Out Of Empire 3.30 Everybody’s Business |
3.15 Home Shopping | |||
| 4AM | 4am Open Learning: 4am Time To Grow, 4.30 Against All Odds, 5am French In Action, 5.30 A Sense Of Place (Continues to 6am) |
4am Today (NBC) | 4.15 Adventures In Rainbow Country 4.45 Australian Sports Magazine |
4am Life In The Word 4.30 Kenneth Copeland |
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| 5AM | 5am Meet The Press (NBC) (Continues to 6am) |
5am Paradise Beach 5.30 Maggie Winters (Continues to 6am) |
5am Marilyn Hickey 5.30 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am) |
5am Weatherwatch, Music 5.30 Worldwatch: Japanese News (Continues to 6am) |