International Broadcasting.

On 10 July 1962 the international broadcasting of television signals came closer to reality with the launch of Telstar 1, a fifty-million-dollar communications satellite owned and operated by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). That same day a picture of an American flag flapping in the breeze was beamed from a television station in Andover, Maine, to Europe. Eleven days later a consortium of the three major television networks broadcast a "picture album" of the United States — the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a herd of buffalo grazing near Mount Rushmore — received by television broadcasters in Great Britain and the European Broadcast Union. The Europeans transmitted pictures of the Roman coliseum, the Louvre, and the British Museum to the United States.

Synchronous Orbit.

One year later, on 10 July 1963, CBS showed the potential uses of transatlantic broadcasts when it...