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New Zealand Dumps Planned Live Millennium Show AUCKLAND, Dec 26 (AFP) - Plans by a New Zealand television station to broadcast live the first rays of sun to hit the Chatham Islands have been foiled by a lack of technology, the Sunday Star-Times reported. The New Zealand Millennium Office paid 200,000 NZ dollars ($100,000) to give New Zealand's Television Three the right to broadcast from the top of Mount Hapeka on Pitt Island, where the first rays of light will strike inhabited land at the dawn of January 1. However, there will be no facility to send the images out live. Instead, the first live footage will now come from Rangaika, a farm on Chatham Island where the first light arrives 90 seconds after it reaches Hapeka on Pitt. New Zealand's Millennium Office chief executive Sharon Van Gulik told the Sunday Star-Times technical problems meant live transmission from Pitt Island would be impossible. In replacement of the live telecast, the images from Pitt Island will be taped and then shown.
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