This Day in History: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history, on this day in 1973. There have also been many other mass-viewed TV events, some of which include Baywatch in the 1990's which had a worldwide viewership of one billion people per week (even though it was banned in the Middle East). An estimated 652 million people watched the live global broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 (about one fifth of the world's population at the time). Muhammad Ali's boxing matches had a viewership of at least one billion people. Princess Diana's funeral was watched by 2 billion people, making it the most-watched royal event.
Live-Aid in 1985 and Roger Water's 1990 Berlin concert "The Wall" garnered huge audiences as well. TV programs such as Dallas, M*A*S*H, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Friends and The Big Bang Theory have been syndicated in more than 100 countries, as have Game of Thrones, Sherlock and Doctor Who. The FIFA World Cup Soccer and the Summer Olympics have viewerships as high as 3 billion.
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