Introduction
It was during the mid sixties that satellite television was discovered by Telstar. In fact during the 1970 football world cup in Mexico football was broadcasted live to football lover all around the world. During this period, there were much changes happening in the communication industry. British Broadcasting Cooperation played a major role in the implication of broadcasting the 1966 event to the whole world through satellite television. Though the broadcasting was done in black and white, it will always be consider as the period when there was introduction of independent broadcasting throughout many parts of the world. Media companies gained the independence to broadcast sports events through their own signals instead of the commonly shared signal within other media houses. This paper is a discussion of how sports broadcasting developed during the 1960-1970 period.
Licensing of television and radio was widely done in order to ensure that every person who owned the radio and television was able to view the matches. During the 1960’s, there over 4 million television and radio licensed throughout the United Kingdom. This was meant to allow more people to have the broadcasting of the world cup available to the public.
During this era, there was the discovery of video recording. This would allow Media Companies to record all their programs for future references or repetition to the public. The first video recording instrument was discovered in 1968 with video editing almost impossible to many media houses. Video recording help broad cast events over and over again to audience who never had the chance to view the live vent on the satellite television. This allowed media houses to be able air repeats their audience who missed the first broadcasting. This was a turning point in television broadcasting a more was to come through video editing. Video editing allowed media companies to start editing television program in order to air fine programs with little or no error at all.
Later, there was broadcasting of foreign events started I many parts of the world. This was aimed towards showing the home crowd what was happening to other parts of the world. Broadcasting of weather and sports starting to become part of the Finland broadcasting cooperation with much emphasis on events happen across the world. This allowed Finnish to interact with events that were happening to other parts of Europe. According to researchers, broadcasting of foreign country news and event allowed the world strengthen its security throw sending warnings to their citizens about the world peace. It is said that during the late sixties, there was the discovery of colored television making broadcasting more effective. Broadcasting of colored television allowed football lovers to view each and every color of the world cup kits during the Mexico world cup.
During the 1970 world cup, international media companies we given the license to air the event live to millions of fans around the world. The world started using independent television instead of monopoly television aired by the government television stations in many parts of the world. For example, in Britain, there was the BBC monopoly that allowed them to be the only television company to cover the 1966 world cup lives with other companies having to take the event from there.
In conclusion, during this period, there were much changes happening in the communication industry. British Broadcasting Cooperation played a major role in the implication of broadcasting the 1966 event to the whole world through satellite television. , the world would be able to watch the 1966 world cup hosted in England live. This meant that broadcasting of the global sports event would be more available for more countries. During this era, there was the discovery of video recording. This would allow Media Companies to record all their programs for future references or repetition to the public. This was a turning point in television broadcasting a more was to come through video editing. . Broadcasting of colored television allowed football lovers to view each and every color of the world cup kits during the Mexico world cup. Media companies gained the independence to broadcast sports events through their own signals instead of the commonly shared signal within other media houses.
