The digital switchover continued last night as the signal from the famous Crystal Palace TV transmitter was switched off. But as the old analogue signal is gradually turned off around the country, ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is gradually being switched off around the country as the digital switchover takes hold. To mark its 35th birthday, Ceefax journalist Ian Westbrook has ...

The end is nigh: Ceefax will come to an end tonight after 38 years 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 ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...

Joan Palmer, Essex, had her ode to Ceefax published in January After 38 years on your TV, Ceefax, will finally come to a close on Tuesday. The analogue TV signal will be switched off in Northern ...

The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set to complete ...

Millions of people can no longer access Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service created by BBC engineers in 1974, after the biggest part of the digital TV switchover process happened overnight.

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 ...

Ceefax will take its final bow tonight as the beloved text service succumbs to the final stage of the UK's switch to digital television broadcasts. The world's first teletext service will finally end ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service created by BBC engineers in 1974, will disappear forever tonight as the final part of the digital TV switchover is completed. By Ben Bryant 23 October 2012 • ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...