Scrapbook 3: Telstar Will Cast Kennedy, Kennedy Will Be Featured On Telstar TV
Telstar Will Cast Kennedy
From Press Dispatches
WASHINGTON—The first exchange of live two-way transatlantic television programs via the American Telstar will take place next Monday.
Part of President Kennedy’s news conference will be relayed live to Europe over the satellite link.
The first transmission from the United States to Europe is scheduled to take place between 8 and 8:30 p.m. CET, the second program from Europe between 10:45 and 11:30 p.m.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said the European
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broadcast will include sequences on the extension of the European “Eurovision” network, on European art and industrial treasures, and broadcasts from Paris, London, Belgrade and other European cities.
The U.S. program will be transmitted to Europe via Telstar on the satellite’s 123rd orbit. Besides being beamed to Europe, the program also will appear live on the three American networks–NBC, CBS and ABC.
Featured from Mount Rushmore will be the 350-voice choir of the Mormon Tabernacle of Salt Lake City, Utah. The program also will show the 60-foot heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt carved in the mountainside.
From Andover
The American show will be beamed to Telstar from Andover, Maine, and from Telstar to stations at Goonhilly, in Cornwall, England, and to Lannion in Brittany, France. From there it will be transmitted by television lines to 16 nations in the European Broadcasting Union—Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany and Yugoslavia.
Top officials in the United States and foreign cities will chat by phone late this month in a series of transatlantic calls relayed by Telstar.
The Bell system announced that 23 American cities and universities would be linked with an equal number in 16 Western European countries.
The calls are tentatively set for July 26.
All of the calls will take place within an hour’s time, with Telstar relaying as many as 10 simultaneously as it whirls around the earth at 16,000 miles an hour.