Telstar 1 - the world’s first active communication satellite - transmitted the first live transatlantic broadcast on July 23, 1962. Airing in the United States on ABC, CBS, and NBC; in Canada on CBC; and in Europe on the Eurovision network, one of President John F. Kennedy's live press conferences was part of that inaugural transmission. 📽: IFP:86D. A newsreel about Telstar 1. Universal Newsreels. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. #OnThisDay #Communications #Technology | JFK Library Foundat

#OnThisDay in 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, launched into orbit. Here Raymond Baxter describes the first live television pictures arriving from America. | BBC Radio 4