What is the greatest live television broadcast of all time?
Before streaming, a whole country could watch one thing at once. These are the nights it did.
1The Kennedy-Nixon DebateThe first televised presidential debate, in September 1960, which showed that appearance now carried weight.1000pts
2The 1969 Woodstock FestivalThree days in upstate New York whose footage defined how a generation saw itself.954pts
3The Fall of the Berlin WallCrowds climbing and breaking the wall in November 1989, carried live as it happened.930pts
4Our WorldThe first live global satellite broadcast, in June 1967, on which the Beatles performed All You Need Is Love.818pts
5The Red Bull Stratos JumpFelix Baumgartner's 2012 skydive from the stratosphere, streamed live to millions of simultaneous viewers.752pts
6Nelson Mandela's ReleaseMandela walking free from Victor Verster Prison in February 1990 after 27 years, watched worldwide.520pts
7The Rumble in the JungleAli against Foreman in Kinshasa in October 1974, beamed by satellite to closed-circuit screens worldwide.520pts
8Live AidSixteen hours from London and Philadelphia in July 1985, carried to an estimated 1.5 billion people.382pts
9The Wedding of Charles and DianaJuly 1981 at St Paul's, watched by an estimated 750 million people in 74 countries.382pts
10The Return of Apollo 13The splashdown of a crew most viewers had been told might not survive the trip home.382pts
11The 1966 World Cup FinalEngland's win over West Germany at Wembley, and the commentary line the country still quotes.212pts
12The Apollo 11 Moon WalkBroadcast live from the lunar surface on 20 July 1969 to an estimated 600 million viewers.212pts
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