Fifty years back, a launch from Kwaj atoll would have to be filmed, then the film brought back stateside to be put on the news. You'd need a fairly robust infrastructure to get it out to people on the news. For sure it wouldn't have been live without a MAJOR effort by the networks.
Now, it's available over the internet in a webcast. Picture quality, pretty decent (for a webcam) - and it's being done as pretty much an afterthought by the SpaceX folks.
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - SpaceX
Update - just had a launch abort, apparently a parameter (didn't specifiy which) went 1% over limit, and caused an automatic shutdown. Everything else looked good, engine started and ran just as it should.
You know, sometimes I think computer monitoring might be just a tad too twitchy in some cases...
They've pushed the countdown back to 11 minutes and holding - we'll see if it goes off tonight or not, There's 50 minutes left in the launch window...
Webcam's zooming in on the encine mechanism.... no, it looks like they're examining the hold-downs No audio feed for explanation.
Looks like a nice day out at their test stand...