At 12 noon on the 13th July 1985, an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people tuned in to watch Live Aid, the “global jukebox” broadcast live from Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.
The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place on July 11th 1962 when the Telstar satellite relayed an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.
Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
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