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title: "Television Broadcast of the Moon Landing"
year: 1969
country: "United States"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1969/moon-landing-broadcast"
slug: "moon-landing-broadcast"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1969-01-01"
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# Television Broadcast of the Moon Landing

> The live television broadcast of Apollo 11's lunar landing reached an estimated 600 million viewers, making it the first global multimedia event.

## Summary

A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors. Until the mid-1980s, broadcast programming on television in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of terrestrial networks. Many early television networks such as the BBC, CBC, PBS, PTV, NBC or ABC in the US and in Australia evolved from earlier radio networks.

## Sources

- [Television broadcaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_broadcaster) - Wikipedia

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