BBC’s TV text to Shutdown

World’s first teletext service, is set for a final bow as the UK’s
digital switchover is completed. Ceefax will take its final bow
tonight 23/10/2012 via its analogue TV signal would disappear in a
staged switch-off over five years, meant a slow withdrawal of Ceefax,
ending with the final broadcast in Northern Ireland.  as the beloved
text service succumbs to the final stage of the UK’s switch to digital
television broadcasts

With the UK’s digital switchover is completed by 10/24/2012 both uk
and ireland will have change over two is digital television and radio
channels but Fm band is still available long side its DAB

Never lived in the UK… what’s teletext?

will for the people who would have the bbc , itv ch4 ,its was a Data transmission via the 625 line tv system , In 1972 the BBC demonstrated their system, known as Ceefax . now has been replaced by Digital teletext ,
but its must used page number was 888 , subtitlespage888 for the hard off hearing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

Many, many years ago when I was an apprentice with BT, on a snowy day when I couldn’t make it up to London, I had to report to my local BT building. This was in Croydon, which is one of the main centres for CEEFAX, and they put me with this group for the day and let me design my own page. It didn’t say much, just ‘Hello this is Riazor Blue’s CEEFAX page’, but it was up there on air for about three weeks.

will you still have the redbotton .... ,r throught there website ,