![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, everything had to be live, so no use of videotape or film was permitted, all participants had to have full knowledge of what was going to be included and the sole reason for including an item would be program balance, not geographical or political concerns. The ground rules included that no politicians or heads of state could participate in the broadcast. It took ten months and ten thousand technicians, producers and performers to bring everything together. Since the contributions from the participating broadcasters were in their native language, a team of interpreters located at BBC's TC2 studio provided simultaneous translation into English, French and German to the receiving broadcasters, where local commentators voiced-over in their own language the original sound from other broadcasters when in other language. To solve language issues, each receiving broadcaster had its own narrator –such as Cliff Michelmore in the BBC or James Dibble in the ABC– reading in its own language the script written by Antony Jay. To illustrate the introductory segments, a large set was built at BBC's TC1 studio, which was operated by the TC2 studio control room. These centers were also in charge of distributing the live master feed from London to the broadcasters in their assigned area. Contributions from North America, Japan and Australia were routed to London by the CBS Switching Center in New York –which was rented for the purpose–, and contributions from continental Europe and Tunisia were routed to London by the EBU Centre in Brussels. The master control room for the broadcast was the TC1 studio control room at the BBC Television Centre in London. Two communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean – Intelsat I (known as "Early Bird") and Intelsat II F-3 ("Canary Bird")–, two over the Pacific Ocean – Intelsat II F-2 ("Lani Bird") and NASA's ATS-1– and nine ground stations, in addition to EBU's Eurovision point-to-point communications network, all monitored by technical and production teams in forty-three control rooms, were used to link North America, Europe, Tunisia, Japan and Australia in real time. ![]() Due to the magnitude of the production, its coordination was transferred to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), with Singer as the project's head. The project was conceived by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) producer Aubrey Singer. Planning The Intelsat I nicknamed "Early Bird", one of the satellites used The most famous segment is one from the United Kingdom starring the Beatles performing their song " All You Need Is Love" for the first time. ![]() Four communications satellites were used to provide a worldwide coverage, which was a technological milestone in television broadcasting.Ĭreative artists, including opera singer Heather Harper, film director Franco Zeffirelli, conductor Leonard Bernstein, sculptor Alexander Calder and painter Joan Miró were invited to perform or appear in separate live segments, each of them produced by one of the participant broadcasters. The two-hour event, which was broadcast on Sunday 25 June 1967 in twenty-four countries, had an estimated audience of 400 to 700 million people, the largest television audience up to that date. National broadcasters from fourteen countries around the world, coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), participated in the program. Our World was the first live multinational multi- satellite television production. ![]()
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