BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...
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, ...
Journalist and author William Gallagher, now deputy head of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, worked on the entertainment pages at Ceefax from 1995 to 2002, and recalls just how influential the ...
You may have missed it, but a little bit of television history came to an end this weekend as the BBC essentially pulled the plus on its Ceefax transmissions, bringing to an end the world’s first ...
Ceefax, a staple of childhoods for several generations, has bid goodbye today and we wave back with a tribute to one of their funnier mistakes. Rhona Martin was the ...