Chasing Midnight New Years Eve 2019

[Analoguesat]

I assume we will be running the usual end of year Follow the Fireworks fun on the forum?

Usual routine, tune into Auckland midnight at 1100 UK time then work our way westwards across the time zones seeing what weird & wonderful celebrations we can find, no doubt a smattering of wrinkly rockers and an awful lot of fireworks!

For those of you that havent seen the format before the usual firework highlights are

Auckland
Sydney
Taipei
Pyongyang(!) - had an excellent display in recent years
Dubai
Moscow
Berlin or one of the German cities
London

Channels are all almost all watched via FTA channels on 13E during the day, the Germans on 19E & a few news channels on 28E. There are always a few contributors chipping in with some of the other birds - eg the Ukrainians & Baltics on 5E and whatever other oddities we can find on the other birds across the European arc.

There is also the opportunity to watch the classic Dinner For One on 19E.

The Reuters news feed on 22W is also a useful one to have access to as they tend to have the full displays from main cities on.

Same procedure as every year??

As usual I'll close this for now & reopen it a few days before NYE

BTW - the first record I can find of Chasing Midnight here is way back in 2004, with annual occurences since 2007!

If any of the forum regulars are around NYE please drop by the thread & say hello.

 

[Analoguesat]

Just to get everyone in the mood here is the classic Irn Bru Snowman advert from about 12 years ago

 

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And the just as brilliant sequel from 2017/8

 

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@remlap does an an annual spreadsheet detailing where the main highlights have been in recent years.

Chasing Midnight 2021

Satellite Predictions Chasing Midnight 2021 Predictions (* = likely to be shown on Reuters feed 22W) Timezone,Time GMT,Location,Channel,Satellite,Frequency GMT +13 ,11:00,*Auckland, New Zealand ,euronews HD,Hotbird 13°E, 11566 H 29900 GMT +11,13:00,*Sydney, Australia,euronews HD,Hotbird 13°E...

docs.google.com

One addition for this year is Alma Too which is a Kyrgyzstan news channel fta on 42E 12685H 27500 DVB-S2 which Im hoping might have some coverage from Bishkek. (+6 same as Kazahkstan)

 

[Analoguesat]

OK as xmas day is now past, we are now open for contributions

 

[Analoguesat]

15 years this has been running her now - 2004 is the earliest record I can find!

2004 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-on-new-years-eve.18710/
2005 - cant find a record of it happening on here
2006 - cant find a record of it happening on here
2007 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2007.75244/
2008 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2008.99989/
2009 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2009.119200/
2010 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2010.141999/
2011 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2011.151144/
2012 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2012.156716/
2013 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2013.160007/
2014 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2014-15.163459/
2015 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2015-16.167331/
2016 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2016.170343/
2017 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2017.172850/
2018 - https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/chasing-midnight-new-years-eve-2018.175102/

2004 was a very short thread - things only really got into their stride in 2007

 

[geordieman]

Here Is My Easy to Read List Of All Timezones and my Recommended channels for Each Timezone: 1100 Auckland (Recommendation al Jazeera Mubasher)
1200 Russia Far East (Recommendation Russia 24 Not Russia Today)
1300 Sydney(Recommendation Al Jazeera Mubasher Or Reuters)
1400 Vladivostok(Recommendation Russia 24)
1500 Tokyo Or The reuters Live Celebration IE Tokyo Or Pyongyang Or seoul(Recommendations NHK World Or Reuters Or Any Korean Channel)
1600 Hong Kong Beijing Or Taipei(Recommendations CGTN For China Reuters For Hong Kong Or Formosa For Taipei
1700 The Iconsiam In Bangkok(Recommendation Maybe Reuters)
1800 Kazakhstan and Bishkek(Recommendation Kazakh TV and Ala Too 24)
1900 Ashgabat and Pakistan(Recommendations any Turkmen Channel and Geo News Pakistan
2000 Dubai/Abu Dhabi(Recommendation Sky News Arabia)
2100 Russia And Iraq And Turkey(Recommendations Russia 24 for Moscow Any Iraqi Channel IE Al Iraqiya and Sharqiya and CNN Turk For Turkey
2200 Bulgaria Romania Greece(Recommendations BNT For Sofia And TVR For Bucharest And ERT For Athens
2300 Paris and Berlin(Recommendations ZDF HD For Berlin And BFM For Paris
0000 Ourselves AKA The United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Northern Ireland(Sky News HD
0100 Cape Verde and The azores(Recommendations TCV Cape Verde and RTP azores
Then Theres The USA And Canada which CBS ABC and NBC and CBC for Canada are My recommendations Correct Me If Ive missed any Of My List folks

 

[remlap]

I think this maybe my 15th Chasing Midnight

 

[hexah]

You are now officially old!

 

[hexah]

Fog forecast for NYE.



However the evening may be clear and cold, thats another good reason to stay inside.

 

[Analoguesat]

My first sighting of Ded Moroz & Snegurochka for this year

 

[Channel Hopper]

My first sighting of Ded Moroz & Snegurochka for this year

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Father frost should be blue (or white), that looks like a late Sinterklass/Nicholas mashup.

 

[Llew]

Call for Sydney show to be cancelled out of respect to people who might be traumatised because of the current bushfires.

Sydney fireworks: Thousands sign petition to halt 'traumatic' show

The petition argues that the money spent on fireworks should go to those fighting bushfires.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Channel Hopper]

The mayor has said the fireworks were purchased months ago and so it will go ahead as planned.

Weather patterns over the next couple of days are going to be critical for other regions, no rain is forecast.

User account | Emergency Victoria

emergency.vic.gov.au

Fires Near Me

www.rfs.nsw.gov.au

 

[Analoguesat]

Russia is having to truck snow into Moscow city centre for the New Year festivities as its been so mild there

Moscow brings in artificial snow for New Year in mild winter

Artificial snow is dumped in central Moscow so that snowboarders can still have their fun.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Analoguesat]

One slight change for this years chase - we wont have our old friend Nursultan Nazerbayev as El Presidente of Kazkhstan this year - he stood down back in March.

Now as usual we will be on the look out for wrinkly rockers as we get into Europe - so please report any sightings of The Rubettes, Bonnie Tyler, Ruslana etc

 

[Channel Hopper]

Plenty of wrinklies on Russian TV every Christmas.

 

[Analoguesat]

I cant find any sign of Dinner For 1 being shown on UK tv this year. Anyone spotted a showing??

 

[Analoguesat]

Found it - Sky Arts and in the finest German tradition its getting multiple showings


1005
1325
1910

 

[satellite hobby]

Found it - Sky Arts and in the finest German tradition its getting multiple showings


1005
1325
1910

Morning all
Hope you’re all gearing up for a day of fun and frolics
Glad to see Sky Arts replicating the German tradition,looks like someone’s been reading this thread