A Brief History of Satellite TV

Satellite TV is arguably a novel communication and entertainment phenomenon. The earliest form of satellite TV was the satellite Sputnik that was a Russian advent in 1957, but the receptivity of this early innovation was lousy. A brief history of satellite TV will tell you that the innovation began making its impact in the 1960s when governments and the corporate sector began taking an interest to invest in space communication.

The space race between Russia and the western countries ironically contributed to the development of more receptive satellite communication that would include telephones and computers as mediums. Satellite television signals were officially relayed in March 1978 and the main TV networks in the developed world switched to this mode of TV signaling to air their programs. Today satellite TV is signified by the possession of a satellite dish that enable TV broadcasters to charge for the TV signals that one receives. DSTV has emerged as a contemporary broadcasting company that distributed decoded satellite TV signals through its dish and decoder equipments.