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, ...
The BBC’s Ceefax text service closed down yesterday after 38 years on the air. The world’s first teletext information service, Ceefax began broadcasting in 1974 and provided everyone from insomniacs ...
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 ...
You may have missed it, but a little bit of television history came to an end this weekend as the BBC essentially pulled the plus on its Ceefax transmissions, bringing to an end the world’s first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 went live fifty years ago. BBC journalist and former Ceefax sports editor Ian Westbrook recalls the years when teletext ruled the airwaves. Imagine a world where you could not call up the ...
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