Where did Australias first satellite TV broadcast originate from?
John, Vic Barely a dot on the map, Carnarvon on the West Australian coast was home to a satellite earth station, built to provide communications for NASAs Apollo Moon project. But when the Early Bird 2 satellite went AWOL the opportunity to make television history presented itself. [Archive footage] There are periods when the satellite is visible both from Australia and the UK and we are in one of these periods at the moment. Carnarvon had no television of its own and townsfolk watched as the ABC crew set about transforming their main street into a television studio. Among the crew was ABC broadcaster Peter Pockley. [Peter Pockley – Broadcaster] We had no chance of getting it wrong, the timing was not very easy it was 6.30am in Britain, for us it was easier, it was 2.30pm in Carnarvon. [Archive footage London studio] Good morning we are here at this very early hour to make another step forward in television history, one which we hope will bring us the most distant person to person tele
