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Teletext pages are only shown on weekdays. [4] 2 May – From today Ceefax in Vision is broadcast during all daytime downtime although BBC2 continues to fully close down after Play School - between 11.30am and 3,30pm - when there is a programme gap of more than two hours. [5]
18 March – Channel 4 broadcasts in-vision teletext pages for the first time. Two magazines are shown – 4-Tel on View and Oracle on View – and in fifteen minute bursts which are repeated several times each day prior to the start of each day's transmissions. Teletext pages are only shown on weekdays. [5]
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.
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. Subtitle (or closed captioning) information is also transmitted in the teletext ...
Teletext is a means of sending text and simple geometric shapes to a properly equipped television screen by use of one of the "vertical blanking interval" lines that together form the dark band dividing pictures horizontally on the television screen. [19][20] Transmitting and displaying subtitles was relatively easy.
The teletext pages are accompanied by a continuous tone with music only being played in the final 30-or-so minutes prior to the start of the next day’s programmes. 1994. 19 June – More Central which had been the brand name for Central’s overnight broadcasting since it began nighttime transmissions in 1987 ends.
2 April – The first in-vision teletext service is seen on ITV when Central launches its Jobfinder service. [13] It broadcasts for one hour after the end of the day's programming. Many other regions launch their own Jobfinder service later in the 1980s. 3 April
18 March – Channel 4 broadcasts in-vision teletext pages for the first time. Two magazines are shown, 4-Tel on View and Oracle on View – and in fifteen-minute bursts which are repeated several times each day prior to the start of each day's transmissions. Teletext pages are only shown on weekdays.