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Ceefax (/ˈsiːfæks/,
punning on "see facts") was the world's
first teletext information service and a
forerunner to the
current BBC Red
Button service....
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Ceefax is the
debut full-length
album by the
English post-rock band Fridge,
released 10
March 1997. The
album is
notable for the fact that it contains...
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teletext on
television in the UK. 1980 12
March – The very
first in-vision
Ceefax transmission is broadcast. It is
shown on BBC1
between 8:30am and 9am. A...
- 1974, ITV's
Oracle tried to
compete with
Ceefax.
Oracle closed on New Year's Eve, 1992.
During its lifetime,
Ceefax attracted millions of viewers,
right up...
- were
introduced by
major broadcasters in the UK,
starting with the BBC's
Ceefax service in 1974. It
offered a
range of text-based information, typically...
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timeline of the
history of
teletext on
television in the UK. . 1972
October –
Ceefax is
announced by the BBC as a new
service providing pages of text on ordinary...
- by the BBC, and
broadcast in the
United Kingdom. The
services replaced Ceefax, the BBC's
analogue teletext service. BBC Red Button's text
services were...
- overnight, and on BBC2
until its
downtime was
replaced entirely by
Pages from
Ceefax in
January 1999,
after which it was only seen
during engineering work, and...
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transmissions were made by the BBC in 1972–74, with the name
Ceefax ("see facts"). The
Ceefax system went live on 23
September 1974 with
thirty pages of...
- by then
using electronic captions,
known as Anchor – to be su****ded by
Ceefax subtitling (a
similar Teletext format), and the
signing of such programmes...
