“One page of the Times Newspaper, to be transmitted during shutdown.” That, so the story goes, was the remit given to BBC engineers in the late 1960s: find a way to transmit a printable page of text ...

emuse absolutely and Teletext announced a deal that will offer interactive advertising to Teletext viewers across both digital satellite and digital terrestrial television platforms. Teletext viewers ...

Before the emergence of Twitter and 24-hour online news, the main way of finding out what was happening in the world came via newspapers and the radio. But with the launch of the BBC's Ceefax – the ...

Jim Romenesko has posted an article from a 1977 University of Alabama student paper that details Teletext, the TV information service that had just rolled out in the UK at the time. Jim Romenesko has ...

The Munich-based IPTV operator Waipu has come up with something special to make the changeover easier for cable TV users: teletext. In future, the classic information panels can be displayed on the ...

Up to 50 editorial jobs at the Press Association could be at risk as a result of Teletext's decision to shut down its core TV service. The closure of the Teletext TV service, announced in July and due ...

Daily Mail & General Trust has been fined £225,000 by media regulator Ofcom for closing the Teletext TV service. DMGT, which announced last July that it would shut Teletext's TV service after 17 years ...

The Jones family can get hold of stacks of information on pretty much anything, very quickly. Mum and dad want news without deadlines, today's sports results today. The children demand the latest ...

Teletext, an information service available on ITV, Channel 4, Five and a selection of Freeview channels, will cease broadcasting in January 2010. The service, first launched back in 1993, arrived as a ...

LAS VEGAS: Standards are wonderful. Unfortunately, a standard does not a business make. It might be worth keeping that in mind on the NAB show floor this year. Back in 1941, a standard did create a ...

The Slovak national commercial broadcaster TV Markiza will close its teletext service at the end of this year. According to Zive, quoting a statement released by TV Markiza, it says that “after a ...

As from June 17, the whole of Italy went digital. Televideo (teletext) is available on all channels of RAI TV including RAI 4, RAI Sport 1 and 2, RAI Movie, RAI Premium, RAIyoyo and RAI Gulp. After ...