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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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
As of the end of 2011, three-quarters of the UK TV regions had completed or were in the process of being switched over. [9] Ceefax was the last remaining text service available via analogue TV transmissions in the UK, as ITV and Channel 4's Teletext service closed in December 2009. Channel 5's "Five Text" ancillary service closed in 2011. A ...
BBC Red Button is a brand used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom. The services replaced Ceefax, the BBC's analogue teletext service. BBC Red Button's text services were due to close on 30 January 2020, but the switch off was suspended on 29 January 2020 following protests. [1] [2]
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]