first network hdtv show?

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What was the first network show(s) to be broadcast in hd?

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"Allyb" <allyb@a1isp.net> wrote in message
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> What was the first network show(s) to be broadcast in hd?
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I actually went to Magnolia H-Fi to watch this live:

http://www.interesting-people.org/ [...] 00107.html

Subject: IP: First Nationwide HDTV Telecast Covers Shuttle Launch

a.. From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
b.. Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:02:31 -0500

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The first live nationwide digital HDTV broadcast took place earlier today,
as viewers in 21 cities watched Senator John Glenn lift off into space,
some 36 years after Glenn's first launch was aired in black and white.
The largest scheduled viewing site was the Smithsonian Institution's
National Air And Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where thousands of
viewers watched the broadcast.