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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Ceefax - a play on the words "see facts" - was launched by the BBC on 1 November 1974 with a team of eight: four sub-editors (journalists) and four researchers The world's first teletext service is to ...

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 ...

Ofcom has fined Teletext Limited £225,000 after its public teletext service licence was revoked. The licence was revoked in January after Teletext had stopped its news and information service on ...

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 ...

Once upon a time in Europe, television remote controls had a magic teletext button. Years before the internet stole into homes, pressing that button brought up teletext digital information services ...

The BBC's iconic teletext information service Ceefax will be switched off on Tuesday evening after 38 years of providing information to viewers. Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters will stop analogue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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