EPISODE 7 We Interrupt This Broadcast

08/12/20 • 8 min

Beaming American television to Japan for the first time was a big deal. Just hours before the first satellite transmission, EVERYTHING changed. Since it was so early in the Space Race, success was far from certain. What interrupted the VERY first broadcast from the United States and changed the world forever?

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold.
What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.
Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.
Sources for Episode 7 We Interrupt This Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_program

https://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transpacific_Reception_of_a_Television_(TV)_Signal_via_Satellite,_1963

https://www.edn.com/relay-1-communications-satellite-launches-december-13-1962/

https://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transpacific_Reception_of_a_Television_(TV)_Signal_via_Satellite,_1963#cite_note-refnum3-8https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/telstar-and-world-1962

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-communications-satellites-helped-world-mourn-jfk

http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=695798113

https://www.mpoweruk.com/satellite_communications.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_z6T9u-tw David Brinkley Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749gdCqSXuo The cancelled broadcast

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/a-brief-history-of-jfk-and-japan

https://www.businessinsider.com/jfks-funeral-seen-around-the-world-2013-11

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1963/11/22/Rusk-planes-turns-back-on-word-of-Kennedy-assassination/3844805205231/