With only a few days’ notice, the USSR and five other East European countries withdrew from the broadcast, thereby emphasizing it as a Western enterprise. As an experimental broadcast, “Our World” was...

With only a few days’ notice, the USSR and five other East European countries withdrew from the broadcast, thereby emphasizing it as a Western enterprise. As an experimental broadcast, “Our World” was not only an experiment in global technologies but was characterized by years of negotiations between the involved broadcast organizations as well as the EBU and OIRT.