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List of teletext services. Teletext (or "broadcast teletext") is a television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules.
Teletext was created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s by John Adams, Philips' lead designer for video display units to provide closed captioning to television shows for the hearing impaired. [6] Public teletext information services were introduced by major broadcasters in the UK, [7] starting with the BBC's Ceefax service in 1974. [8]
1970s. 1972. October – Ceefax is announced by the BBC as a new service providing pages of text on ordinary television screens. 1973. April – The first transmission of Oracle takes place, during Engineering Announcements. [1] 1974. 23 September – The BBC's teletext service Ceefax goes live with 30 pages of information. 1975.
Ceefax (/ ˈ s iː f æ k s /) was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service. Ceefax was started by the BBC in 1974 and ended, after 38 years of broadcasting, at 23:32:19 BST (11:32 PM BST) on 23 October 2012, in line with the digital switchover being completed in Northern Ireland.
Founded. 1 January 1993. (1993-01-01) Defunct. 21 June 2010. (2010-06-21) Headquarters. London, United Kingdom. Teletext Ltd was the provider of teletext and digital interactive services for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 in the United Kingdom.
BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services on 23 September 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms. In the first phase, the service was created using content migrated from the existing analogue teletext service, Ceefax.
2 April – The first in-vision teletext service is seen on ITV when Central launches its Jobfinder service which broadcasts for one hour after the end of the day's programming. [12] 9 September – The last ever non-stop all-day BBC2 Pages from Ceefax broadcast takes place.
World System Teletext (WST) is the name of a standard for encoding and displaying teletext information, which is used as the standard for teletext throughout Europe today. It was adopted into the international standard CCIR 653 (now ITU-R BT.653) of 1986 as CCIR Teletext System B .