As analogue TV slides from memory, there’s a facet of it that’s fondly remembered by a band of enthusiasts. Teletext was an electronic viewdata information service digitally encoded in the frame ...

Long before we had internet newsfeeds or Twitter, Ceefax delivered up-to-the-minute news right to your television screen. Launched by the BBC in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service, ...

Ceefax (a play on “see facts”), the world’s first teletext service, went live on 23 September 1974, with 30 pages of information. During the testing phase, the editor, Colin McIntyre, was the only man ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is gradually being switched off around the country as the digital switchover takes hold. To mark its 35th birthday, Ceefax journalist Ian Westbrook has ...

Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the ...

The British teletext service Ceefax was launched on September 23, 1974 and it continued until 2012. A BBC story said: “Before the advent of the internet and 24-hour news channels, Ceefax was at ‘the ...

Last Wednesday, as part of the "digital switchover", the analogue signal from my TV transmitter, Caradon Hill on Bodmin Moor, was turned off for good. Days later I am still in mourning for a cherished ...

The end is nigh: Ceefax will come to an end tonight after 38 years BBC Ceefax is set for its final bow tonight as the TV text service ends after nearly four decades to make way for the UK's digital ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...

Tributes have been pouring in as the world's first TV text service - the BBC's Ceefax - marks its 30th birthday. Launched on 23 September, 1974, Ceefax has developed an army of armchair fans from the ...