The Nine Network will stay up way past the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve to celebrate the Millennium.
Millennium Live will commence on Friday December 31 at 8.30pm and will be hosted by Today's Tracey Grimshaw and ex-Carols host Eddie McGuire.
The special program will be the biggest and longest event ever undertaken by the Nine Network. The live coverage of all the action leading up to the birth of a new millennium will include crosses to Millennium Island in the Pacific, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand.
At midnight, coverage of the largest ever fireworks display in Australia's history will take place in Sydney. Nine will also go live to all other capital cities throughout the night - South Australia at 12.30am EST, Queensland at 1.00am, NT at 1.30am, and WA at 3.00am.
At 5.45am, Nine will broadcast the rising of the sun (we don't make this up folks).
At 8.00am the network will go direct to Paris, and to London at 9.00am. At 10.00am a special Y2K edition of the Today show will cover the major problems around the world associated with the Y2K bug.
At lunchtime Eddie McGuire and Tracey Grimshaw will return to cover the millennium celebrations around the world right threw the afternoon.
5.59pm will be Keno (we had to throw that in :-).
Nine will broadcast a special 1 hour edition of National Nine News at 6.00pm, and will continue with the Millenium celebrations right through the night.
