Satellite television C. Clarke proposed a worldwide communications system which would function by means of three satellites equally spaced apart in earth orbit. This was published in the October 1945 issue of the Wireless World magazine and won him the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1963. The first public satellite television signals from Europe to North America were relayed via the Telstar satellite over the Atlantic ocean on 23 July 1962, although a test broadcast had taken place almost two weeks earlier on 11 July. The signals were received and broadcast in North American and European countries and watched by over
Satellite Program Network general information and entertainment programming and classic feature films that are in the public domain." In 1988, by which time Tempo had 15 million subscribers, the channel was purchased by NBC, mainly for its existing carriage and not its programming. It was relaunched on April 17, 1989 in a new guise as the business news channel CNBC. Satellite Program Network Satellite Program Network (SPN) was a satellite and cable TV network which broadcast in the United States from 1979 to 1990. SPN was created by Ed Taylor, an associate of Ted Turner and the head of the Southern Satellite Systems