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It's easy to believe in downloading HD movies wirelessly today in 2019, so we take for granted that it's possible. But in the early 1970's? Wired modems were extremely slow back then. Wireless would logically have been even worse, especially from the Moon's distance. We didn't have 22 nm CPUs with billions of transistors back then either. Who remembers the first Quicktime videos from the 90's? They were the size of a postage stamp. Did the transmitter on the Moon have its own nuclear power generation, to be able to broadcast that long and that far? We're talking about transmitting hours of full size "full motion video" from the Moon to the Earth. A couple of 12V car batteries left behind on the moon wouldn't have done it, sorry.

How many full motion videos has NASA produced that were filmed on other celestial bodies and beamed back to earth? Usually it's still frames only, because it takes so long to transmit. And that's in the past 20 years, not 50 years ago.

                "I believe the Russians landed this hunk of junk on the moon in 1970"
                  Here's the photo proving it :farmer:

Why do they have television channels?? Unless they were receiving a "broadcast" from Stanley Kubrick's soundstage in Area 51 or the UK?

I guess I don't understand what you're arguing. You appear to be claiming the only possible reason to have a screen in mission control is to view fake broadcasts. As if a screen couldn't possibly be used to view genuine broadcasts, or other things going on during the mission?

In your view, were the mission control people "in" on the fakery? Were the videos of mission control faked? Was all the mission control data faked as well? It must have been faked really well for none of the people who looked at it - then or later - to realize it was all fake. 

What about the contractors and engineers? They understood the design specifications, and understood they were designing something that could take humans to the moon. They tested the designs, and NASA made changes after testing. The engineering cycles don't look unusual. The design docuмents are also still available. An engineer with appropriate specialization can verify the designs are for human travel to the moonl. Which is, by the way, a lot more expensive than non-human space travel (let alone no space travel). So they designed and build vehicles capable of taking people to the moon. At which point, it's easier to, you know, just send people to the moon.

I suppose Kubrick must have insisted on filming on location.