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Originally Posted by Malcolm T
Thank you for the replies info and link.
But what of the hours and hours of all those TV transmissions from 69 to 1972 Apollo 17.
I watched just about every live TV broadcast they put out.
I have just found this.
https://wipednews.wordpress.com/feat...bc-broadcasts/ |
I think in the case of Apollo 12- The original intention was to find an old NASA spacecraft that had landed on the Moon... but the live TV cameras had failed anyway..so any BBC studio interaction would have been presenters waffling on, which presumably the BBC didn't think worth keeping? Although there is obviously extensive audio recorded by enthusiasts at the time.
With Apollo 13 IIRC only the launch and splashdown were covered for obvious reasons.
From then on the Apollo missions took up less and less air time as they were now not rating winners in TV terms...the BBC were loosing out to Coronation St. LOL