I can remember being in the control room of a local television station talking with an engineer friend of mine back in the 80's (I was in High School) when the Pan-Am flight was bombed over Scotland. The guys in the station's control room were watching feeds (C-Band analog in those days, of course) of the crash site and getting news before anyone else.
I guess that was my first exposure to FTA, many many years ago!
Tron