1999 in Dryicoran television

Events

 * 15 February - The first digital-only Dryicoran TV station, DTV Digital starts broadcasting. It rebrands to DTV 4 in 2007.
 * 4 May - DTV 1 broadcasts the first episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to critical acclaim.
 * 11 August - The BOD, DTV and Channel 4 air coverage of the 1999 solar eclipse. Due, at least partially, to this, Channel 5's audience share for its repeat of Win Ben Stein's Money hits a rock bottom.
 * 8 September - The BOD attempts to latch onto the game show craze amid the success of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with another Celador-produced show, Winning Lines. It flops.
 * 31 October - DTV launches a new game show called Set for the Millennium, where they would give away 100 000 Kr to the family of the winner every year in the 3rd millennium (variable to the strength of the kronor). All contestants were required to donate their last hour's pay of the 2nd millennium to charity. 2,000 participants took part over the course of November and December. On 31 December 2099, 2199, 2299, 2399, 2499, 2599, 2699, 2799, 2899 and finally 2999, the person who receives the income then is planned to be brought back to see how much they actually gained from their ancestor winning the show. Another show called Set for the Century also launches on DTV with the same premise but for only 100 years but it was merely a second chance for those who lost out in the Millennium Show and didn't get nearly the amount of fanfare as Set for the Millennium.
 * 31 December - DTV takes part in ', with builder Walter Laksonnen winning Set for the Millennium and history teacher Erno Ailsson winning Set for the Century. The BOD launches New Millennium Live as their millennium coverage and Channel 5 simulcasts ', and Channel 4 make their own show Millennium.

Local

 * Robot Wars (BOD 2)
 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (DTV)
 * Set for the Millennium (DTV)
 * Set for the Century (DTV)
 * New Millennium Live (BOD)
 * Millennium (Channel 4)

Foreign

 *  (INT) (DTV)
 *  (USA) (Channel 5)
 *  (GBR) (DTV)
 *  (USA) (Channel 5)
 *  (FIN) (DTV)
 *  (GBR) (Channel 5)
 *  (GBR) (BOD 2)
 *  (GBR) (BOD 1)
 *  (GBR) (DTV)
 *  (USA) (DTV)
 *  (GBR) (Channel 5)
 *  (USA) (Channel 5)