in televisions early years , north american and european viewers had to waits hours if not days for tapes to shipped across the Atlantic in order to watch foot age from the other side of the ocean . that all the changed 50 years ago after the launch of the first telecommunications satellite .Testar . on july 23 ,1962 . tens of millions of people watched a historic broadcast as telstar beamed live transatlantic video in viewers living rooms for the first time .the age of satellite television ha