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What was the first worldwide satellite television broadcast?
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#65347. Asked by RaeRae55. (May 04 06 5:02 PM)
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SOTHC
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The Beatles according to
 http://www.rateitall.com/i-58062-all-you-need-is-love-beatles.aspx
A perfect song for its time. Released in the early summer of 1967 which coincidentally had been named the Summer of Love, it represented all that was good with the Hippie movement of the day. The song is significant in Beatle history because it was the song that they performed on the first worldwide satellite television broadcast. A number of well known performers were present for the performance and a film of the broadcast is a time capsule of 1967.
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SENTENTIA
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1926 - First Television Broadcast
It is regarded by some as man's greatest invention, possibly more life-sustaining than fire and certainly more entertaining than the wheel; it is regarded by others as the Anti-Christ; and it began with Helensburgh-born John Logie Baird.
The very first television picture was transmitted by him in 1926 from one room to another. In 1927 he successfully sent a moving image along telephone wires from London to Glasgow, and the following year he achieved the first trans-atlantic television broadcast.
http://www.scotclans.com/history/1926_television.html
The first satellite television signal was relayed from Europe to the Telstar satellite over North America in 1962.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_television
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RaeRae55
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Turns out it was Aloha from Hawaii-Elvis Presley 1973.
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justicejayant
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Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production, which was broadcast on 25 June 1967. Performers, including opera singer Maria Callas and artist Pablo Picasso, from nineteen nations were invited to perform in separate segments featuring their respective countries, and the two-and-half-hour event had the largest television audience ever up to that date: an estimated 400 million people around the globe watched the broadcast.
Today, it is most famous for the segment from the United Kingdom starring The Beatles. Performing at the height of the Vietnam War, the group wanted to spread a message of peace and love to the world. They gave a live performance, transmitted at 8:54 p.m. GMT, performing a new song written by John Lennon, "All You Need Is Love", composed especially for the occasion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_World
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M1kie
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I have been researching this question and turned here to hopefully find another source to reference. I have been able to find several sources that agree on the first worldwide broadcast and it was “none of the above”. I may be complicating things even further but here goes.
The first international satellite broadcast came via Telstar during a transatlantic exchange on July 23, 1962.
The first transpacific broadcast was received in Ibaraki Japan on November 23, 1963. A prerecorded address from the President of the United States was to be telecast across the country of Japan, but the speech had been preempted. In its place was a special report that was being simulcast live across the United States. In Dallas Texas it was 1:27 p.m. on November 22nd. President Kennedy had been declared dead less than half an hour before.
Now comes the really confusing part. Is it international, worldwide, or global? And how much of the world has to broadcast the program to actually count? And does it have to come all at once?
Through the mid ‘60’s there were very few ground stations to receive and relay broadcasts. Much of the world was being left out.
On June 25, 1967 the “Our World” telecast was the largest to that date but fell far short since a worldwide network had not yet been established and none of the Eastern Bloc (the Reds) countries participated. Definitely international but not worldwide and not even the first international broadcast.
The January 1973 Elvis Presley “Aloha From Hawaii” concert was international, and may have eventually reached worldwide status but it took months for the delayed taped broadcasts to reach many countries. Besides the first “Global” broadcast had actually happened 3 1/2 years prior.
By 1969 dozens more ground stations had been added worldwide and the Intelsat III satellite was launched into geosynchronous orbit over the Indian Ocean completing the first global network. This goal was accomplished just days before an estimated 500 million people watched as Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
According to the Encyclopedia of American Journalism, “The first global major television news event broadcast live via satellite by the Intelsat system to millions of people around the world was the Apollo moon landing in 1969.”
But then again, after researching Russian web sites I have learned that Soviet Union did not air the live broadcast to its citizens, but it was available and no doubt monitored. With this assumption in mind that “Global” criterion would have been met.
M.e.
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Datsmeharse
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It's gets down to semantics almost. Are the satellite broadcast beamed to the Arctic Circle? Just because the Eastern Bloc chose not to receive "Our World", does it mean it's not global? Does hitting all the populated continents count? No broadcast has ever been viewed by more than about 15% of the Earth's population, so does that make it "worldwide"? It's comes down to opinion.
"Our World" would be my opinion, with the Vienna Boys Choir's performance being the first commericial transmission worldwide. The Eastern Bloc was to participate but pulled out a few days beforehand. Certainly the capability was there for them to receive and broadcast on the uplink.
Only 31 countries participated, but with Intelstat I, II and ATS-1 linked, it hit all the continents, or "the developed world" as the CBC announcer called it:
http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/the_media/topics/1311-7733/
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