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July 12 - On this day: 60 years since the first transatlantic satellite TV transmission | History | News | Express.co.uk
![TIL despite John Logie Baird inventing the television, broadcast television, and transatlantic television broadcasts, he still only came 44th on a list of 'Greatest Britons'. : r/todayilearned TIL despite John Logie Baird inventing the television, broadcast television, and transatlantic television broadcasts, he still only came 44th on a list of 'Greatest Britons'. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/rpz6LIt-Iwp_Y1cwtUij3ftI220hzVjA44zIoWRpiv0.jpg?auto=webp&s=160ad0233f65b64ad1514d739cb7c2c4793c417e)
TIL despite John Logie Baird inventing the television, broadcast television, and transatlantic television broadcasts, he still only came 44th on a list of 'Greatest Britons'. : r/todayilearned
Science Museum - #OnThisDay in 1962 the world's first commercial communications satellite, Telstar 1, was launched into space. Later that month Telstar 1 was used to broadcast the first live transatlantic television
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Fifty years of satellite TV: How the world's first television broadcasts were beamed across the world | Daily Mail Online
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Milestones:First Transatlantic Reception of a Television Signal via Satellite, 1962 - Engineering and Technology History Wiki
![BBC Archive on Twitter: "Experience the thrill of what it was like to witness the first live transatlantic television broadcast via satellite from the US to Britain #OnThisDay in 1962. #BBC100 https://t.co/mda0xVlusy" / BBC Archive on Twitter: "Experience the thrill of what it was like to witness the first live transatlantic television broadcast via satellite from the US to Britain #OnThisDay in 1962. #BBC100 https://t.co/mda0xVlusy" /](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXX2_viX0AEq2Y9.jpg)