First live public trans-Atlantic TV broadcast
JUL 22, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031013
On this day in 1962 the first live public trans-Atlantic TV broadcast was relayed by Telstar 1, a communications satellite that had been launched two weeks earlier. The broadcast featured CBS’s Walter Cronkite and NBC’s Chet Huntley in New York and the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby in Brussels. Later that same day the satellite relayed the first telephone call to be transmitted through space. Although it is no longer full functional, Telstar 1 is still in orbit around Earth.
Date in History: 22 July 1962
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