The very first live transatlantic television broadcast was in 1962. The experimental Telstar satellite relayed the signals from the USA to the UK via Goonhilly, one of the first three earth stations in the world. Nearly five million people watched in the UK as the historic pictures were received.
Additionally pictures of the Apollo 11 moon landing could be relayed around the world by satellite in 1969. Only seven years after Telstar was launched, global communications were available 24 hours a day. It was estimated that 600 million people around the world watched the landing as it happened.
