Long before we had internet newsfeeds or Twitter, Ceefax delivered up-to-the-minute news right to your television screen. Launched by the BBC in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service, ...

The BBC’s Ceefax text service closed down yesterday after 38 years on the air. The world’s first teletext information service, Ceefax began broadcasting in 1974 and provided everyone from insomniacs ...

The British teletext service Ceefax was launched on September 23, 1974 and it continued until 2012. A BBC story said: “Before the advent of the internet and 24-hour news channels, Ceefax was at ‘the ...

BBC Ceefax is set for its final bow tonight as the TV text service ends after nearly four decades to make way for the UK's digital switchover. The much-loved service will be taken off air this evening ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is set for a final bow as the UK's digital switchover is completed. Former Olympian Dame Mary Peters will turn off the analogue TV signal in Northern ...

In-vision Ceefax was first shown in March 1980, originally in 30-minute slots and by mid-1983 it was a common filler during daytime downtime. Transmissions were originally billed on-air as Ceefax in ...

Following the recent launch of BBC Text, the BBC's digital version of the analogue text service Ceefax, the corporation has announced that it will discontinue Ceefax on Digital Satellite during June ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before the days of the internet and email the only way you could get information quickly was via Ceefax. It used part of the analogue TV signal to transmit its pixellated stories directly to your ...

A new Ceefax news service for Kent and Sussex is to go live on Monday. The move follows the launch of nightly news programme BBC South East Today and internet sites for the areas, and "completes the ...

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 ...