I have a question and cant find the answer....

**slkirk22** · 02-23-2005, 04:09 PM

OK I need to find out what the first thing to be televised world-wide was. I cant find it and I have 2 people arguing over it. One says an Elvis concert (which I dont think it is) and the other one says it was one of the olympics. Help me settle this please so I can shut them up!

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**nanajoanie** · 02-23-2005, 04:17 PM

Just guessing but I would say Olympics or even the Ed Sullivan Show. Sure hope you get a definite answer here. Now I'm curious.

**nosamiam** · 02-23-2005, 04:18 PM

1927: The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded, and the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System — later CBS — is formed. Pictures of Herbert Hoover, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, are transmitted 200 miles from Washington D.C. to New York, in the world's first televised speech and first long-distance television transmission.

http://www.civilization.ca/hist/tv/tv02eng.html

***buttrfli*** · 02-23-2005, 04:30 PM

I always thought that the very first thing to be shown world wide was Hitler and the opening day of the olympics.

Edited to add... I do know that the opening day of the olympics was the first thing ever broadcast by satellite... so I assume that it was the Olympics

**Tippytail** · 02-23-2005, 06:33 PM

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.

http://www.connected-earth.com/Visit...nbroadcast.htm

That's all I could find...does that help any?

***buttrfli*** · 02-23-2005, 06:43 PM

Ok, I finally found the year the Olympics were televised worldwide - 1936

Elvis was born in 1935, but I highly doubt he was on TV at the time LOL

I had to go look up the Olympic info as it was driving me absolutely nuts!

**wyozozo** · 02-23-2005, 07:24 PM

Sept. 4, 1951. First transcontinental TV broadcast, featuring President Truman

Sept. 22, 1951. First live sporting event seen coast-to-coast: a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, at Pittsburgh (NBC-TV).

July 9, 1962. Telstar communications satellite is launched into orbit. [The first test transmissions between the U. S., France, and Britain occurred the next day. This was not actually the first trans-Atlantic TV, as the BBC and German TV were received in the 1930s in Long Island and perhaps elsewhere in the U. S.]

July 23, 1962. A joint ABC/CBS/NBC production is telecast to Europe via Telstar. The program featured excerpts of a baseball game at Wrigley Field, Chicago, a live news conference by President Kennedy, and a concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, who had traveled to Mount Rushmore to perform. The host of the U. S.-to-Europe program was Chet Huntley of NBC.

May 15, 1963. First TV pictures transmitted from a manned U.S. space capsule, astronaut Gordon Cooper's "Faith 7." Because the picture quality is poor, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live.

http://members.aol.com/jeff560/chronotv.html

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