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Telstar Transatlantic Broadcast

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On 23 July 1962, the Telstar 1 communications satellite relayed the first publicly available live television signal across the Atlantic, carrying images including the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower to viewers in North America and Europe through NBC, CBS, ABC, CBC and Eurovision. Walter Cronkite and Chet Huntley anchored the American broadcast and the BBC's Richard Dimbleby anchored from Brussels, the same evening Telstar also relayed the first satellite telephone call, between Vice President Lyndon Johnson and AT&T chairman Frederick Kappel.

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Milestone Year
1962 1
When
23 July 1962, 3:00pm Eastern Time; Telstar 1 had launched 10 July 1962 aboard a Thor-Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral. 1
When
CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, reflecting afterward on the broadcast, said it was the moment audiences glimpsed the true power of the instrument television and satellite relay had become. 1
Location
Transatlantic, United States to Europe 1
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Additional Source American Broadcasting Company, WikipediaHistoric Achievement section
BBC, Organizations
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Additional Source BBC, WikipediaHistoric Achievement section
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Additional Source 1960 United States presidential debates (Wikipedia)Historic Achievement section
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Credited To

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Additional Source Walter Cronkite - Wikipedia

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1. Wikipedia
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  • Historic Achievement section
    the first publicly available live transatlantic television signal
  • Walter Cronkite, quoted in Notable Achievement Quotation section
    we all glimpsed something of the true power of the instrument we had wrought
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Walter Cronkite - Wikipedia
Credited To: Walter CronkiteView the Source
1960 United States presidential debates (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Columbia Broadcasting System, Historic Achievement sectionView the Source
American Broadcasting Company, Wikipedia
Associated With: American Broadcasting Company, Historic Achievement sectionView the Source
BBC, Wikipedia
Associated With: BBC, Historic Achievement sectionView the Source

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