Ceefax (/ˈsiːfæks/) was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service. Ceefax was started by the...

replaced with broadcasts of Ceefax pages. It continued to be seen for around 7.5 minutes each day before the start of Ceefax broadcasts but it would also...

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...

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...

Ceefax is the debut full-length album by English post-rock band Fridge, released 10 March 1997. The album is notable for the fact that it contains three...

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...

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...

by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor – to be superseded by Ceefax subtitling (a similar Teletext format), and the signing of such programmes...

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...

journalist who published the story on the BBC's television text service Ceefax. Offered a two-week contract, Essandoh came on as a late substitute at Leicester's...

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...

transmitted en clair instead of the test card (compare the BBC's Pages from Ceefax). TF1 and FR3 both also began to broadcast Antiope content from the early...

April 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2024. "Singer Freddie Mercury dies, aged 45". Ceefax. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2011...

made." One of the more negative reviews of the film appeared on the BBC's Ceefax service, on which critic Louise Hart remarked: "The main weakness of the...

"Little Mouse" (as featured in the module on music), a selection of mock-Ceefax pages, and a creator's commentary. The joke is taken even further by presenting...

captions), which is why the term subtitle is also used to refer to the Ceefax-based videotext encoding that is used with PAL-compatible video. The term...

afternoon's children's programmes. 23 September – The BBC's Teletext service Ceefax goes live. 1975 1 September – Tonight returns to BBC1 after ten years off...

satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service. He had previously promised to bring back the service...

Lineker once commented dismissively, "the best way to watch Wimbledon is on Ceefax", criticising the team's supposedly unsophisticated approach to football...

8859-1: º) for the £ symbol, while most other printers used x9C. The BBC Ceefax system which dated from 1976 encoded the £ as x23. The Sinclair ZX80 and...

thing in this overbearing but underwhelming sequel." In the UK, the BBC's Ceefax service gave the film a mixed review. Remarked the unnamed critic who reviewed...

5594/J10449. "Teletext Gallery - BBC Ceefax Telesoftware". The Teletext Museum. Mike Brown. Retrieved 19 October 2017. "Ceefax Telesoftware Axe Storm". The Micro...

, whose news, sport and TV listings pages rivalled the BBC's offering, Ceefax on terrestrial and BBC Red Button on digital. Teletext Ltd. also provided...

voice-over translation was used instead of dubbing for budgetary reasons. Ceefax, the first teletext service, launched on 23 September 1974. This service...

school summer holidays, Rosenberg worked at the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax. Following A-Levels at Chingford Senior High, he attended the University...

the pseudonym Ceephax, which is a reference to the BBC teletext service Ceefax. He is the younger brother of Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson). Jenkinson became...

The phrase being used in a BBC Ceefax test from 1972...

recording contract when Hebden was 15, and released their first album, Ceefax, on Trevor Jackson's Output Recordings label in March 1997. While working...

Lord Buckethead a "Best Policy" award for a manifesto pledge to bring back Ceefax. A few days after the election, Lord Buckethead appeared on the American...

captioning. In 1972, the concept was first made public under the new name Ceefax. Meanwhile, the General Post Office (soon to become British Telecom) had...