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 ...

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 ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, ceased transmission on Tuesday after delivering 38 years of up-to-the-minute news and sports updates to the British public. Olympic champion Mary Peters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Ceefax-style mural celebrating Middlesbrough FC's first major trophy has been unveiled next to the club's Riverside Stadium. The artwork, underneath the Shepherdson Way bridge, depicts the ...

England winger Ian Hunter was picked for the British and Irish Lions in 1993 One of the biggest stories from the announcement of British and Irish Lions squad was the selection of 20-year-old Henry ...

An updated version of BBCi will launch on digital satellite in June, with similar updates being rolled out across digital terrestrial and digital cable platforms by the summer of 2004. Heralded as ...

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 ...

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 ...