Viewtron was an online service offered by Knight-Ridder and AT&T from 1983 to 1986. Patterned after the British Post Office's Prestel system, it started...

launched its Viewtron system in 1983. After investing six years of research and $50 million into the service, Knight Ridder shut down Viewtron in 1986 when...

largest deployments of videotex in the United States: Knight Ridder's Viewtron service in Florida, and the Los Angeles Times' Gateway service in Southern...

Civil War. Virginia portal Journalism portal USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter Viewtron USA Today journalists "Caren Bohan USA TODAY Staff Page". USA Today. "Kristin...

to Firestone. Also in 1983, it began selling goods online through the Viewtron videotex service. That same year, fashion designer Roy Halston, signed...

offer text-based access for those who needed or preferred it. In 1985 Viewtron, which began as a Videotex service requiring a dedicated terminal, introduced...

through more than 20 system operators including Compuserve, Dow Jones and Viewtron. Additional databases (weather, arrival/departure information) were added...

Ridder, on the company's future in electronic media after the failure of Viewtron four years earlier. Ingle proposed a Mercury Center online service that...

reposition itself as a two-way information service akin to Prestel or Viewtron; the service was discontinued completely by the end of 1986. In 1982, Field...

several other joint partnerships between 1983 and 1987. These included: Viewtron, a joint venture of Knight-Ridder and AT&T Gateway, A service in Southern...

publishing company Knight Ridder and AT&T offered a competing service called Viewtron. The service offered news, aviation schedules and educative content, but...

created their own videotex systems, the largest and most ambitious being Viewtron, a service of Knight-Ridder launched in 1981. Others were Keycom in Chicago...

Knight-Ridder Newspapers to form Viewdata, a holding company that operated the "Viewtron" service. Test marketed in Florida in 1980, the service expanded to the...

early 1980s. The biggest North American examples were Knight Ridder's Viewtron (based in Miami) and the Los Angeles Times' Gateway service (based in Orange...

research at company headquarters in Miami, where he worked on Knight Ridder's Viewtron online service. One of the earliest examples of computer-assisted reporting...

Bloomberg with its Bloomberg Terminal, Knight Ridder notably with its Viewtron offering, Quotron and Bridge, more or less specialised on the money market...

hopes of reorienting themselves as a two-way videotex service akin to Viewtron (which would fail, with Keyfax ceasing service in 1986). The service was...

illustrated columns for Dave Barry, and created computer animations for the Viewtron online service. In 1987, he returned to his home state of Ohio where he...

Canadian videotex/teletext service videotex – End-user information system Viewtron – US videotex service According to Alex Reid, the first Director of Prestel:...

2014. Internet-based weather information began experimentally with the Viewtron television service in the mid-1980s, and later on through gopher and World...

for a team to develop an electronic newspaper. That initiative, called Viewtron, would become America's first consumer online service, a forerunner of...

more graphically based systems that required special hardware to access. Viewtron, an early videotex service offered by Knight-Ridder and AT&T required a...