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Information Update

Published 11 August 2025

Oracle teletext will continue until at least 1992, says the government. How do people use it?

WSTV Europe – Improvements to BBCfax

Published 22 September 2024

Viewers of BBC World Service Television get a refreshed teletext service in 1993

CEEFAX – New technology

Published 21 September 2024

Technological advances speed up the editing and the display of Ceefax pages in 1992

Without it your set’s not with it

Published 20 September 2024

A 1980 guide to the hot new British technology: teletext

Teletext50

Published 10 September 2024

A celebration of the fastest way to get information and entertainment

Progress in engineering

Published 10 April 2023

Technological developments abound at the IBA: teletext, satellites, standards conversion and much more

Welcome to the exciting world of ONdigital

Published 18 February 2022

Welcome to the future and your new ONdigital digibox

Consulting the Oracle

Published 27 July 2020

Inside ITV’s teletext service ORACLE in 1985

Oracle – Broadcasting the Written Word

Published 26 March 2018

The IBA introduces its experimental ‘Oracle’ service in 1973

Changing the page

Published 31 December 2017

The last few minutes of ORACLE teletext, 25 years ago

✎ It’s time to give up

Published 14 February 2017

…because you lost at Valentine’s Day

Teletext at Republica

Published 24 May 2016

Dan Farrimond takes a trip to Republica in Berlin to experience a teletext block party

Teletext time travel

Published 7 January 2016

Bringing old teletext pages on VHS back to life

Ceefax gone

Published 23 October 2012

BLOG: So, farewell then Ceefax…

Farewell, Pages From Ceefax

Published 22 October 2012

BLOG: Goodbye Ceefax

What happens to Teletext?

Published 23 January 2009

The fall out of the recent Ofcom report into the future of commercial public service broadcasting continues, with The Guardian reporting that Ofcom are not aren’t convinced that there will need to be a separate Teletext franchise going forward.

Teletext then… but now?

Published 24 May 2004

The death of teletext

Press Red

Published 1 January 2002

Interactive services put to the test

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