International Broadcasting
In Canada Sunset Beach aired at 3:00PM on independent station CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario; the show was broadcast the same day as NBC.
In Bulgaria Sunset Beach aired on Nova Television (Bulgaria).
In Romania Sunset Beach aired on TVR1.
In Ireland Sunset Beach aired on TV3 weekdays at 2.30pm from 20 September 1998 to August 2001 - all episodes aired. A short repeat run began August 2001 to August 2002.
In Macedonia Sunset Beach aired on MTV.
In Finland Sunset Beach aired on Nelonen.
In Poland Sunset Beach aired on RTL7 from September 1, 1997 to August 31, 2000 (all episodes).
In New Zealand Sunset Beach aired on TV3 from 1998 to 2000 (all episodes).
In Australia Sunset Beach aired on Network Ten from 1999 to 2001 in an early morning time slot.
In South Africa Sunset Beach originally aired on SABC 3 for its entire run from 1999 to 2001. Currently e.tv is rebroadcasting the entire series. It started airing again in September 2007.
In Sweden Sunset Beach aired on TV4. All episodes aired one time on TV4, and the rerun aired on Tv4 and Tv4 Plus. A second rerun started airing on Tv4 in 2004 but was later cancelled.
In United Kingdom Sunset Beach aired on Channel Five from March 1997 to February 2000. The first 130 episodes aired on ITV2 from July 2000 to January 2001 before the series was dropped due to low ratings and the high cost of broadcast rights. Channel Five started repeating the series in 2004 but dropped it from the daytime schedule due to low ratings. They continued repeats in double-bills in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday mornings until they had shown all the episodes they had bought the rights for (approx. 215).
In Germany, Sunset Beach aired on RTL from January 2, 1998 to January 8, 1999 where it was cancelled. Super RTL took over and aired the soap from September 1, 1999 to March 9, 2001 in a late primetime slot. Local channel BTV aired reruns from 2001 to 2003.
In Russia Sunset Beach aired on NTV.
In Cyprus Sunset Beach aired on Sigma TV.
In Spain Sunset Beach aired on Antena3TV. The channel intended for the series to be their big Sumemr premiere and launched the series with a 2-hour pilot on a Sunday afternoon in the very popular 330pm movie slot. Promoting the series as Baywatch meets Beverly Hills 90210 with a lot of Santa Barbara (the latter having been a massive hit for the channel many years earlier and the only big US daytime soap to have aired in Spain), the series continued with its regular screenings every weeknight in the much coveted 8pm Access Primetime slot, the slot previously occupied by Baywatch. Sunset Beach, however, failed to attract any attention, and the series was promptly axed after one week and six episodes, never to return to Spanish TV again.
In Slovenia Sunset Beach aired on Kanal A
In Indonesia Sunset Beach aired on Indosiar. The TV series was dubbed into Bahasa Indonesia.
In Chile, Sunset Beach aired on Mega (Chilean television channel)
In the Philippines, Sunset Beach aired on Studio 23.
In Hungary, Sunset Beach aired on TV2 in 1998, however only 355 episodes were broadcast.
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