This is true, in the movie Apollo 13 it's portrayed as part of the plot that TV stations don't want to do a live broadcast of the mission. This is based on hist

This is true, in the movie Apollo 13 it's portrayed as part of the plot that TV stations don't want to do a live broadcast of the mission. This is based on historical fact. Even Mission Control told them to cut it short because there was a Baseball game on. The broad public was only interested once something went wrong.