dankargo
Specialist Contributor
In the newly found “B footage” of The Who’s performance, you can actually see the moment when the feed goes down. About 0:41 seconds in.
Spanish television also apparently used that slot for two permanent feeds (of TVE-1 and TVE-2) to the Canary Islands from 1982 onwards until Hispasat took over in the early-mid 1990s. That must have cost them a penny or two!
It was a very very weak signal. I remember someone interested in TVE, not able to get those two feeds with massively large dishes (maybe 3.7m or more).