Olympic champion Mary Peters (pentathlon 1972) brought the curtain down on the service when she turned off the last analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland at 11.30pm local time (9.30am Wednesday AEDT) ...

The world's first teletext service is to be celebrated at a special exhibition marking its 50th anniversary. Today people take interactive television services and news on demand for granted, but their ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ceefax, a teletext service available in the UK launched by the public service broadcaster BBC. While not the only teletext service available globally, it was the ...

Who doesn't like a bit of nostalgia? We remember Ceefax, the teletext service that gave us news and a whole lot more at our fingertips. Read: Ceefax service closes down after 38 years on BBC Read: ...

Ofcom has fined Teletext Limited £225,000 after its public teletext service licence was revoked. The licence was revoked in January after Teletext had stopped its news and information service on ...

BBC Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service, completed its final broadcast on 23 October 2012. Ceefax had been launched on 23 September 1974 to allow BBC viewers to check headlines, sport scores, ...

CEEFAX, the world’s first teletext service, went off the air at 11.30pm last night after 38 years on the BBC. Teletext was invented by BBC engineers who were attempting to find a way to broadcast ...

After 38 years the BBC is retiring Ceefax, ending the first era of digital content delivery to the home. Launched in 1974, Ceefax was the world's first teletext service—a proto-Internet delivering ...

Teletext Holidays faces legal action unless it pays back £7m to customers whose holidays were cancelled owing to the pandemic, a watchdog has said. Complaints suggested people were not receiving ...

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A very sad day it will be too. I have very fond memories of Ceefax when I was a child. I was born in 1988 and Ceefax had high use in my household in the 1990s. I will always remember sitting there in ...