# Canonical recap data for Television Broadcast of the Moon Landing (1969)
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slug: moon-landing-broadcast
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1969/moon-landing-broadcast"
title: Television Broadcast of the Moon Landing
subtitle: The live television broadcast of Apollo 11's lunar landing reached an estimated 600 million viewers, making it the first global multimedia event.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1969-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1969
decade: 1960
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: 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, broa
summaryLong: 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.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Television broadcaster"
importance: 81
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
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  title: Television broadcaster
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- tech-launch
- launch
metaDescription: A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides pr
wikidataQid: Q1254874
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  capturedAt: 2026-06-21
  label: Television broadcaster
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_broadcaster"
