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Millennium Live

Millennium Live is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Millennium Live rather than just read about it. In short: Millennium Live was a cancelled and planned international television special, which was an unsuccessful attempt to broadcast an international celebration of the beginning of the Year 2000, or the so-called Millennium. Reports claimed that the show was to have involved broadcasters in up to 130 nations.

Key takeaways

Millennium Live belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Millennium Live to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Millennium Live from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Millennium Live was a cancelled and planned international television special, which was an unsuccessful attempt to broadcast an international celebration of the beginning of the Year 2000, or the so-called Millennium. Reports claimed that the show was to have involved broadcasters in up to 130 nations. Millennium Live: Humanity's Broadcast was going to compete against the 2000 Today international broadcast that was supported by ABC in the United States and led by BBC in the United Kingdom. The programme was called off on 28 December 1999 when its organizers, the Millennium Television Network (MTN), announced that it had failed to obtain sufficient financing for the broadcast. MTN reportedly was not paying production and satellite companies for their services prior to the cancellation before MTN shelved their efforts to establish a global broadcast for the following New Year's Eve.

History The Millennium Television Network (MTN) was formed by Live Aid's American producer Hal Uplinger to prepare and conduct the broadcast. A series of early planning activities among international representatives reportedly occurred in Cannes in October 1998. Millennium Live was planned as a 24- or 25-hour broadcast from 11:00 UTC 31 December 1999. Pax TV (now known as Ion Television) of the United States had the exclusive rights to broadcast the show which they billed as Pax Millennium Live: A New World's Eve. Scheduled musical guests included Aerosmith, Bee Gees, Blondie, Chicago, Phil Collins, Destiny's Child, Ricky Martin, 'N Sync, The Pretenders, Sting, Santana and 10,000 Maniacs. Bryan Adams, Simply Red and the Spice Girls were also sought as featured artists. New Year's Eve celebrations from various worldwide locations were to have been seen on the show. Angelica Castro (Chile), Carmen Electra (US), Ramzi Malouki (France), and Zam Nkosi (South Africa) were also scheduled as a program hosts for the represented nations. The studios of a television special were to have been hosted in Los Angeles on a set contained in a 90-foot geodesic dome at Manhattan Beach in the United States. The program was cancelled on 28 December 1999 with an announcement that MTN had failed to obtain sufficient financing for the broadcast. MTN reportedly was not paying production and satellite companies for their services prior to the cancellation. Pax aired a series of movies in Millennium Live's place, and MTN never materialised its reported plans to establish a global broadcast for the following New Year's Eve on the real Millennium (2001).

Broadcasters

The following broadcasters were reported as participants in Millennium Live:

Note: Hong Kong's ATV and Italy's RAI were the only broadcasters that moved to the 2000 Today broadcast.

See also 2000 Today – the successful international television special, which was broadcast in 78 countries (including broadcasters from the cancelled Millennium Live TV special)

References

External links Everything 2000 - New Year's Eve Broadcast Plans 26 January 1999 Everything 2000 - Millennium Live Worldwide Broadcast Cancelled 29 December 1999 Kansas City Star - Y2K: The TV takeover 29 December 2001 Kansas City Star - Funding glitch shuts down Pax's millennium special (via TV Barn) 30 December 1999 Millennium Hell - Pax Backs Hacks. Lacks Facts. Backtracks. Sacks Millennium Quacks to the Max Egypt2000.com - The Twelve Dreams of the Sun - Jean-Michel Jarre performance

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Millennium Live

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Millennium Live claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Millennium Live before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Millennium Live ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Millennium Live

In research: Millennium Live appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Millennium Live in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Millennium Live is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics International broadcasting, Turn of the 3rd millennium, Unaired television specials, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Millennium Live outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Millennium Live in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Millennium Live means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Millennium Live in simple terms?

Why does Millennium Live matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Millennium Live?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Millennium Live.