"Jim Burns" wrote:

From Robert Law, over at Yahoo Group's Inside_KSC,
), here's an interesting look at the history
of England's coverage of America's space program.... Jim Burns
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During the Apollo Program hear in the UK we only had 2 TV stations BBC
and ITV both provided coverage

The BBC had two channels from 1964.

[snipped most of the inaccurate guff]

During the coverage of the
Apollo 8 mission in 1968 at the most critical moment when the astronauts
where about to fire the SPS for the journey home the BBC cut the program
to show Play School !

Since the TEI burn started at 06:10 GMT and AOS followed at 06:25 there would
have been no scheduled programs at that time - certainly not Play School,
which was usually aired at 13:00 on BBC 1 and at 16:20 on BBC 2. The event
happened on Christmas Day too, so schedules might have been different.
However, back then programs didn't usually start until later in the day -
there were no Breakfast shows.

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Brian Lawrence

Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK