When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On October 24 2012, analogue TV transmitters were switched off for the final time, as digital ...

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 ...

Ceefax will take its final bow tonight as the beloved text service succumbs to the final stage of the UK's switch to digital television broadcasts. The world's first teletext service will finally end ...

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 ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...

The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set to complete ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The BBC's teletext information service was a world first when it launched in 1974, and initially provided just 30 pages of information. The data was carried in a previously unused part of the spectrum ...

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 ...

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 ...