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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, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Teletext sends data in the broadcast signal, hidden in the invisible vertical blanking interval area at the top and bottom of the screen. [ 3 ]
Planet Sound. Planet Sound was a British music magazine founded in 1997 by Teletext Ltd. It featured on that company's teletext service (accessible via ITV and Channel 4) and official website. Planet Sound attracted a dedicated community of music fans, facilitated by its letters page, "The Void", and also received endorsements from chart musicians.
t. e. Ceefax (/ ˈsiːfæks /) 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. [1 ...
NBC Teletext was a teletext service provided by the American TV network NBC from 1981 to 1985, based on the NABTS standard. [1] [2] [3] [4]Initial trials started in Los Angeles in 1981. [5]
FourText, originally called 4-Tel, was first run in conjunction with ORACLE, as an auxiliary teletext provider for Channel 4 from 1982. 4-Tel occupied pages 410-469 within ORACLE's page space. When ORACLE lost its licence and was replaced by Teletext Ltd in 1993, 4-Tel moved to its own page space on pages 300-399 (effectively its own magazine).
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. [1]
First teletext service in the Czech Republic was launched on 1 May 1988 under Czechoslovak Television. [2] It was inspired by German and Austrian teletexts. [3] Czech Television eventually started to provide teletext services for both its channels - ČT1 (Teletext ČT) and ČT2 (Teletext Express). When ČT 4 Sport was launched it received its ...