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Telstar, the first television broadcast satellite, celebrates 60-year anniversary

Sixty years ago, and for the first time ever, three U.S. broadcast networks and the CBC in Canada beamed live programming from the United States to Europe via Telstar – one of the first television broadcast satellites. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller has more.
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