Early Days

[Satsearching]

Early Days of Sky and BSB in the UK...

YouTube - Tomorrow's World - Satellite Television - First Broadcast from Astra - 1989

YouTube - Tomorrow's World - Satellite Television - First Broadcast from Astra - 1989

[PaphosAL]

Fascinating... Can we now get back down to incorporating Radio Times EPG (filched from PLI) into the UkCvs Enigma SVN please, pretty pleeeeze?

[renwich]

even earlier than Sky

from wikipedia

The first satellite television signal was relayed from Europe to the Telstar satellite over North America in 1962. The first geosynchronous communication satellite, Syncom 2, was launched in 1963. The world's first commercial communication satellite, called Intelsat I (nicknamed Early Bird), was launched into synchronous orbit on April 6, 1965. The first national network of satellite television, called Orbita, was created in Soviet Union in 1967, and was based on the principle of using the highly elliptical Molniya satellite for re-broadcasting and delivering of TV signal to ground downlink stations. The first commercial North American satellite to carry television was Canada’s geostationary Anik 1, which was launched in 1972.[1] ATS-6, the world's first experimental educational and Direct Broadcast Satellite, was launched in 1974. The first Soviet geostationary satellite to carry Direct-To-Home television, called Ekran, was launched in 1976.