ABC Radio began using the SEDAT satellite distribution system in the mid-1980s, switching to Starguide in the early 2000s.

Still one asset that ABC lacked in the early 2000s that most other networks had was popularity in reality television.

Through the early 2000s, the ABC Sports division and ESPN merged operations.

In television, the most notable mockumentaries in the 2000s have been: ABC Australia's The Games ( 1998 – 2000 ), Trailer Park Boys ( 2001-2008 ), the British shows Marion and Geoff ( 2000 ), Twenty Twelve ( 2011-2012 ) ( which follows the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, The Office ( 2001 ) and its many international offshoots, Come Fly with Me ( 2010 ), which follows the activity at a fictional airport and its variety of staff and passengers.

Craig Media ( then-owners of the current Citytv stations in Winnipeg and Alberta ) owned the rights to Monday Night Football in the early 2000s, and these rights moved to Citytv for MNFs final season on ABC in 2005, before being moved again to TSN in 2006.

Its heyday was in the first half-decade of the 2000s, with reviews appearing in Softpedia, and Czech online magazines ABC Linux and Linux. cz.

Initially, this was Pat Summerall ( Madden's partner during his days at CBS and Fox during the early 1980s on through the early 2000s ) until Summerall retired ; the role was then filled by Al Michaels, John's broadcast partner on ABC Monday Night Football ( 2002 – 2005 ) and NBC Sunday Night Football ( 2006 – 2008 ).

For 3 years in the early 2000s, much like its radio counter-part Radio New Zealand and ABC TV in Australia, TVNZ became a fully public service network.

Themes in the United States that have become associated with a sport include Johnny Pearson's " Heavy Action " ( used for many years as an intro to Monday Night Football ), " Roundball Rock " ( composed by John Tesh as the theme for the NBA on NBC during the 1990s and early 2000s ), " Bugler's Dream " ( used in ABC and NBC's coverage of the Olympics ) and the theme to ESPN's nightly sports highlight show, SportsCenter.

Released in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) in the early 2000s, Spot in the Park with the Flowerpot Gang consists of 26 nursery rhymes.

The culture of television would change significantly in the years that immediately followed, most notably with the rise of The WB and UPN, networks that would eventually cater to the teenaged audience My So-Called Life sought, in the late 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ) ( The WB and UPN launched just two weeks and one week respectively before My So-Called Lifes run on ABC ended ).

Many successful Australian shows were created during the 2000s, including ABC TV comedies like Kath and Kim, Spicks and Specks and The Chaser's War on Everything, Network Ten's Thank God You're Here, which led to the creation of many local versions throughout the world, and the growth of reality television, especially Big Brother Australia and Australian Idol.

The government funded stations, ABC and SBS, received increased funding in the closing stages of the 2000s to enable them to make the transition to digital TV.

As an ABC affiliate, the station preempted the half-hour soap airing in the 12: 30 timeslot ( Loving / The City / Port Charles ), at some point running it on overnights ; but when the network axed the programming block outright in the early 2000s ( decade ); KXTV has aired the entire schedule of ABC programming since then.

For a time in the early 2000s, the ABC Newcastle website included a 5 day-a-week 5 minute TV news bulletin dedicated to Newcastle, shot in the ABC NSW studio.

The station formerly pre-empted the first hour ( 7-8pm Central ) of the ABC lineup on Tuesday evenings during the football season to carry the local program Tuesday Night Touchback, which was formerly known as Monday Night Countdown before it was moved in 2007 because of Dancing with the Stars and the departure from ABC of Monday Night Football ( for most of the 2000s ( decade ), the slot has been among the lowest-rated on ABC's primetime schedule, as was the case with the pre-MNF timeslot ).

In the 2000s Turner has received accolades for her performance in Kath & Kim, an ABC ( Now Seven Network ) comedy series which she created, wrote, produced and starred in with her longtime friend and collaborator, Gina Riley.

In the mid to late 1990s, the film was rebroadcast annually on ABC, before switching over to ABC Family's 13 Nights of Halloween lineup, in the early 2000s.

The station has an agreement with the Tennessee Titans to air Bridgestone Titans on 2 with Mike Munchak, the team's coach's show that originally aired from 8pm-9pm Tuesday evenings, pre-empting ABC programming in that timeslot during the NFL season ( which has featured low-rated and critically drubbed sitcoms for the majority of the 2000s ).

In the early 2000s, ABC Companies did introduce a " mid-sized coach ", the M1000 series, which was based on the Freightliner Trucks large truck frame.

England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

Telecom companies, such as Afghan Wireless and Roshan, began boasting rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the mid 2000s.

Traditional cocktails and gin began to make a comeback in the 2000s.

Since the 2000s, guitar amplifiers began having built-in multi-effects units or digital modeling effects.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.

In the late 2000s, Kiribati began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

In the 1990s and 2000s the personal defense weapon, a compact submachine gun-like firearm which can fire armor-piercing, higher-powered ammunition began to replace the machine pistol as a self-defence side arm for artillery crews, tank crews, and helicopter pilots ( for more details, see the section below on military tactics ).

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

In the mid-to-late 2000s artists and hackers began to rediscover pen plotters as quirky, customizable output devices.

Starting in the 2000s ( decade ), genre shows began to offer more prominent female characters.

Beginning in the early 2000s, many ski manufacturers began designing skis and bindings together, creating an integrated binding system.

In the 2000s, Trip-Hop began expanding its influence more prominently into other genres.

A lot of producers began to show their Trip-Hop influence with several albums that came out in the early 2000s.

Extraction of natural gas began in the 2000s.

In the late 2000s, Vanuatu began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

The 2000s was a decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.

In December 2009, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) announced that the 2000s may have been the warmest decade since records began in 1850, with four of the five warmest years since 1850 having occurred in this decade.

In the 2000s, the Weiquan movement began in the PRC, seeking to advance citizens ' rights partly by petitioning for enforcement of existing laws, and partly through activism.

With the Diamond Rio player in 1998, the mass market began to eschew physical media in favor of file-based systems, rendering cassette-and disc-based formats obsolete by the end of the 2000s.