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July 23, 1962 – The first live transatlantic television broadcast via the Telstar I satellite. [16] November 25, 1963 – The State funeral of John F. Kennedy was broadcast on live TV. It was seen by perhaps what was the largest viewing audience up to then. It was the first live TV coverage of a Presidential funeral.
1972: First broadcast of M*A*S*H, Emmerdale, Mastermind, Kamiondžije, El Chavo, El Chapulín Colorado, The Bob Newhart Show, The Price Is Right, Great Performances and Maude; the Asama-Sansō incident is the first marathon live television broadcast in Japan; Canada starts domestic satellite broadcasts; HBO is launched; the first colour ...
The first national live television broadcast in the U.S. took place on September 4, 1951, when President Harry Truman's speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco was transmitted over AT&T's transcontinental cable and microwave radio relay system to broadcast stations in local markets. [252] [253] [254]
Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on July 10, 1962. One of the earliest communications satellites, it was the first satellite to achieve live transmission of broadcast television images between the United States and Europe.
The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. Telstar 2 was launched May 7, 1963 ...
Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever, regularly scheduled news broadcast on American television in March 1940; it was a simulcast of his nightly 6:45 PM NBC network radio newscast, with the television broadcast seen only in New York City over what was then experimental TV station W2XBS. [1] The television simulcast lasted for only a few months.
This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included. This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date.
The two-hour event, which was broadcast on Sunday 25 June 1967 [a] in twenty-four countries, had an estimated audience of 400 to 700 million people, the largest television audience up to that date. Four communications satellites were used to provide worldwide coverage. This broadcast was a technological milestone in television broadcasting.