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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor – to be superseded by Ceefax subtitling (a similar Teletext format), and the signing of such programmes...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

October 2012. In-vision Ceefax broadcasts started in 1980, initially as a daytime filler, but as programme hours expanded Ceefax was shown before the start...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

, 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...

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...

version of the BBC iPlayer.: 15  BBC portal A-weighting Backstage.bbc.co.uk CEEFAX Dirac (codec) Equal-loudness contour Institut für Rundfunktechnik — German...

an original requirement due to the BBC's own use of broadcast teletext (Ceefax). It also made the computer useful as a Prestel terminal. The teletext characters...

rarely used due to most European countries using the BBC Ceefax based Teletext system. The Ceefax system is more prone to character errors due to the greater...

event based scheduling system. This was due to the BBC discontinuing the Ceefax service. PDC is transmitted once a second in special packets addressed as...

Entertainment.ie. 17 January 2003. Retrieved 3 June 2024. "Hey Petrunko - BBC Ceefax". themagictreehouse.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 March 2005....