Two things: the first is that although the Surveyor was not able to transmit continuous video, was able to continue broadcasting for a long time thanks to the solar panel, if I'm wrong you explain why.
Hint #1: Solar panels work only when illuminated.
Hint #2: The Moon is tidally locked to the earth; it rotates only once per month.
Hint #3: Without an atmosphere to hold heat, the Moon gets
really cold at night.
Hint #4: Extreme cold is often fatal to electronics unless carefully designed and insulated. A source of heat is usually required if not powered.
And the second is that since much improved video technology today, there is no reason not to have electronic eyes on the moon for everybody transmitting real-time TV technically or economically.
Moon is an excellent observatory on Earth, his face forever pointing to Earth, it would give us the chance to see our world as a complete sphere and in real time, something that we have not yet.
See hints 1-4 above.
There are much better places from which to continually observe the earth. One is geostationary orbit, where (unlike the Moon) there is continuous sunlight except for a little more than an hour per day around the equinoxes. This is only about 10% of the distance to the moon, allowing much smaller optics. It is also
much easier to reach than the surface of the moon.
Another is the earth-sun L1 point about 1.5 million km from the earth toward the sun. Although much farther away than the moon, and used mainly for observing the sun (rather than the earth) a recently launched spacecraft called DISCOVR does indeed continually observe the earth. One difference with geostationary observation is that DISCOVR continually sees a fully sunlit earth. But the earth is ringed with a series of geostationary weather satellites that keep all sides under continuous observation, with infrared cameras watching the night side.
The earth is also continually observed by a large fleet of spacecraft in low earth orbit, from the ISS in a medium inclination orbit to multi-national fleets of low polar orbit weather, spy and earth resources satellites. Because they're so much closer, these orbits are greatly preferred for high resolution images. However, they cannot continually "stare" at one point on the surface as a geostationary satellite can. That's why we have both types.