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The first space bridge was an arrangement between the Unuson Corporation and Gosteleradio of the USSR for the US Festival, sponsored by computer pioneer Steve Wozniak. On September 5, 1982, a TV-link was established for the first time between the Soviet Union and the United States. On the Soviet side, Joseph Goldin and Yuli Gusman were in ...
(Some of the Soviet Central Television shows are now consigned to Channel One Russia and Russia 1) Additionally the three big Russian channels – Channel One, Russia 1 and Petersburg – Channel 5 – have a good amount of presence in the former Soviet territory, and most of the republican stations are now fully independent.
People outside the Soviet Union who used a TVRO satellite television could receive Soviet broadcasts. [citation needed] Broadcasts were time-shifted for the Soviet Union's many time zones. The national television channels were only on the air for part of the day, giving room in the schedule to time-shift.
English: World map in 1980, during the later stages of the Cold War. Español: Guerra Fria - Situación de la confrontación bipolar en 1980. Čeština: Mapa světa v r. 1980, na sklonku studené války.
During the 1980s, he was a favourite guest on Ted Koppel's Nightline. [12] Pozner was the host of Moscow Meridian, an English-language current affairs program focusing on the Soviet Union; the show was produced by Gosteleradio, the Soviet State Committee for Television and Radio and broadcast on the Satellite Program Network. [13]
The Soviet Union set up the great space race that would lead to international technological, political, cultural, and scientific exploration. [15] The Soviet domestic satellite system was also known as Orbita - in 1990 there were 90 Orbita satellites, supplying programming to 900 main transmitters and over 4,000 relay stations.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co
4 October – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1965–1980) (born 1918) 20 November – Avtandil Gogoberidze, football player (born 1922) 18 December – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964–1980) (born 1904) Date unknown