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More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production.

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Our World (1967 TV program)

First live international satellite audiovisual broadcast

Our World was the first live multinational multi-satellite television production. National broadcasters from fourteen countries around the world, coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), participated in the program. The two-hour event, which was broadcast on Sunday…
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Satellite television

Broadcasting of television using artificial satellites

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite…
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