As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

Oxford University Press's art history text Australian Painting 1788 – 2000 concludes with a long discussion of graffiti's key place within contemporary visual culture, including the work of several Australian practitioners.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

* Dennis Miller ( Australian actor ), actor best known for his recurring role on Blue Heelers as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle ( 1994 – 2000 ).

Chinese families therefore sent their children to universities in Singapore, Australia, Britain or the United States – by 2000, for example, 60, 000 Malaysians held degrees from Australian universities.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

* Australian Sports Medal ( 2000 )

She was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

* Lopez, Mark ( 2000 ), The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945 – 1975, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Victoria.

In 2000, the July edition of Australian Personal Computer magazine bundled software CD-ROMs, included a full version of Warp 4 that required no activation and was essentially a free release.

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

* Martin, Allan ( 2000 ), ' Sir Robert Gordon Menzies ,' in Grattan, Michelle, " Australian Prime Ministers ", New Holland Publishers, pages 174 – 205.

( 2000 ), " Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon ( Bob ) ( 18941978 )", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, ( Melbourne ), pp 354 – 361.

The rivalry was further extended in 2000 when North Melbourne attempted to play " home " games in Sydney to further promote the game of Australian rules football, which was deemed that the Kangaroos were trying to invade Sydney's " territory ".

* Roma Mitchell ( 1913 – 2000 ), Australian lawyer, judge and state governor

Backyard Blitz was an Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and DIY television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 through to 2007 before its cancellation.

Category: 2000 Australian television series debuts

In 2000 Bailey, Dunne and Martin found similar results from a larger sample of 4, 901 Australian twins.

* Australian Nations Cup Championship A series for GT type cars which ran from 2000 to 2004.

Her next event was the 2000 Australian Open, which she won in singles without the loss of a set.

Davenport's success continued into 2005, when she reached her first Grand Slam final, at the Australian Open, since the 2000 US Open ; she fell to Serena Williams in three sets.

The relative severity of various British profanities, as perceived by the public, was studied on behalf of the British Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, BBC and Advertising Standards Authority ; the results of this jointly commissioned research were published in December 2000 in a paper called " Delete expletives ?".

In early 2000, TiVo partnered with electronics manufacturer Thomson Multimedia ( now Technicolor SA ) and broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting to deliver the TiVo service in the UK market.

In 2000, " an event of historical importance " occurred, according to a live broadcast for the state-owned Korea Broadcasting System, as 78 North Korean girls and boys arrived at the Unification Church's cross-cultural " ice-breaker " event, where guests such as the minister of unification, Park Jae-Kyu, and the minister of culture, Park Jie Won were present.

In 2000, Straczynski returned to radio drama with The City of Dreams for scifi. com and an original 20-part radio drama series entitled The Adventures of Apocalypse Al for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that was to debut in 2007 but has not yet aired.

From 1994 to 2000, the CBC, in a venture with Power Broadcasting ( former owner of CKWS in Kingston ), jointly owned two networks:

In 2000, CBC and Power Broadcasting sold these channels to Barry Diller ’ s USA Networks.

Granada continued to expand by acquiring Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television for £ 652m in 1997 and bought UNM for £ 1. 75billion in 2000 – by which it acquired Anglia Television and Meridian Broadcasting and some divisions of HTV – the remaining divisions passing to rival company Carlton due to competition laws.

However, in the absence of any subsidy for the Sky Digibox in Ireland – viewers in the UK could avail of both a Sky subsidy and one from British Interactive Broadcasting – the cost to initially acquire Sky Digital equipment was very expensive ( IEP 450 ) and subscriber numbers did not rise until both these subsidies were introduced into Ireland in 2000.

From 1998 to 2000 he was chairman of NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

Also in 2000, Viacom acquired CBS / Infinity Broadcasting, but kept the radio division under the " Infinity " banner.

In was announced in 1999 that, as of the 2000 Contest, the four biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) – Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom – would all be given automatic entry into the Contest, regardless of their average scores over the past five years.

From 1992 to 2000, the show was syndicated by On the Radio Broadcasting.

In March 2000, Turner Broadcasting System purchased the rights and now often airs the film on TBS.

Promises was shot between 1995 and 2000 and was produced in association with the Independent Television Service with partial funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Constantine made her television debut when Granada Sky Broadcasting signed her and Woodall to present a daytime shopping show called Ready to Wear, and they soon released their first fashion advice book, Ready 2 Dress in 2000.

In March 2000, the company legally became known as SBS, changing its corporate name from Seoul Broadcasting System ( 서울방송그룹 ).

In 2000, the Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled against TVNZ over inaccuracies in a news story about the drug Lyprinol, which was erroneously touted as a cure for cancer.

Trio went on the air in 1994, then originally owned and operated jointly by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Power Broadcasting Inc. ( a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada ) as a venue for airing the CBC's arts, culture and entertainment programming in the U. S. It was sold to USA Networks in 2000, and was subsequently transferred to Vivendi Universal and later NBC Universal.

Some of McChesney ’ s other books include: the award-winning Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U. S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 ( Oxford University Press, 1993 ) and the multiple award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times ( New Press, 2000 ).

Capitol Broadcasting would buy WRAZ outright in 2000, however unlike most new duopolies that start sharing the same studios elsewhere, its studios remained in Durham.

CBS ' radio stations, including WBZ, were spun off into a new public company, Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, in 1998 ( a move that removed the Group W name from the station's license ); Viacom announced its acquisition of the publicly held stake in Infinity on August 15, 2000 ( shortly after it merged with CBS Corporation ), a transaction completed on February 21, 2001 ( though Viacom, and CBS before the merger, had always held a majority stake in Infinity ).

Before joining Paramount, Berman served from 2000 to 2005 as President of Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, where she held the top Fox programming post.

Caillou first aired on Canada's Teletoon channel in 1997 ; it later made its United States debut in English on Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) Public television on September 4, 2000 and aired its series finale on October 3, 2010.