List of teletext services
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A number of similar teletext services were developed in other countries, some of which attempted to address the limitations of the British-developed system, with its simple graphics and fixed page sizes.
This is an incomplete list of teletext services available on different television channels around the world.
Countries with functioning teletext services
Albania
- Top-Channel
- TVSH
- Mediaset
- RAI
- SAT.1
Austria
- ORF Text ()
- ORF Sport Text (ORF Sport Plus[5])
- TW1 Text (TW1)
- 3satText (3sat)
- ATV TEXT (ATV)
- Puls 4 Text (Puls 4)
- Sat1 Österreich Text (Sat 1 Österreich)
- ProSieben Text Austria (Pro 7 Österreich)
- kabel eins text Austria (Kabel 1 Österreich)
- RTLtext AT (RTL Österreich)
- RTL II TEXT AT (RTL 2)
- Austria 9 Text (Austria 9)
- Tirol TV teletext[6]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- BHT1 Text (BHT1) - main state level public TV channel in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- FTV Text (FTV) - entity level public TV channel
- RTRS Text (RTRS) - entity level public TV channel
Croatia
- HTV TTXT (Croatian Radiotelevision)[7]
- Nova Text (Nova TV)
- RTL Text (RTL Televizija)
Czech Republic
- Teletext ČT[8]
- Teletext TV Óčko[9]
Defunct services
Denmark
- DR Tekst-TV (Danmarks Radio)
- TV2 Tekst-TV (TV2 Adopted digital teletext, but abandoned the service in 2019)
- Viasat Tekst-TV (Viasat)
In fact, almost all TV channels in Denmark have teletext (called tekst-TV). Some of those services are entirely in Danish, while international channels (Discovery Channel, Animal Planet etc.) share their teletext with the other Scandinavian countries.
Finland
The Finnish national public broadcaster Yle has its own Teletext (Yle Teksti-TV). It shows news, sport and programme information round the clock. Theme pages on the weather, traffic, work and leisure.[17] Teksti-TV also has news in English on page 190.
- Yle Teksti-TV (Yle)
- MTV3 Tekstikanava (MTV3) (Defunct)
- TekstiNelonen (Nelonen) (subtitling only)
- Subteksti (Sub) (defunct)
- BloxyTV Text Service https://btvtelevisio.wixsite.com/teletext
France
In France, where the SECAM standard is used in television broadcasting, a teletext system was developed in the late 1970s under the name Antiope. It had a higher data rate and was capable of dynamic page sizes, allowing more sophisticated graphics. It was phased out in favour of standard teletext in 1991.
A lot of French channels have teletext left only for subtitling. Here some with a complete text:
Germany
Almost all German TV stations have teletext. Here are some of it:
- regional broadcasters)
- ZDF: (ZDF,[19] ZDFneo,[20] ZDFinfo[21])
- ARD & ZDF: Phoenix
- RTL II, ... and others)
- ProSiebenSat.1: (ProSieben, Sat.1, kabel eins, ... and others)[25]
- Tele 5[25]
- Sport1[25]
- Welt[25]
- ... and others
Greece
- N Sports)
- Mediatext (Star Channel, Sports TV, Extra3)
- Newsphone Hellas (MAD TV)
- Metromedia Group (Vergina, Nickelodeon, Rise, Smile, Nickelodeon Plus, Super TV Halkidiki, Ionian Channel, Atlas TV)
Hungary
Iceland
- RÚV textavarp (Icelandic public TV station RÚV) available to view at Textavarp.is[26]
Ireland
Defunct services
Italy
State-owned RAI launched its Teletext service, called Televideo, in 1984.
Defunct services
MTV Video was active between 2000 and 2010 (ex MusicFax in 1991), while "LA7 Video", the Teletext service of La7, was launched in 2001 but discontinued in 2014 (ex TMCvideo in 1992). Mediaset, the main commercial broadcaster, launched its Mediavideo in 1997 (ex Teletext in 1993) (discontinued in 2022).
- La7Video (La7)
- MTVVideo (MTV)
- Mediavideo (Mediaset)
Latvia
- TV3.lv (TV3 Latvia)
Defunct service
- Latvian Television used to have teletext, but as of March 2007, it is closed.
Luxembourg
- RTL Text (RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg)
Netherlands
The Netherlands has run a regular Teletext service since the end of 1977 on the public broadcasting channels, and the commercial and regional channels that were later introduced also have their own services. Some of these channels also run Tekst-TV, which broadcasts a selection of their teletext pages as a regular TV broadcast, using improved fonts and background graphics, when no normal programming is shown.
- NOS Teletekst (NPO 1, NPO 2 and NPO 3)[28]
- Omroep Brabant
- Omrop Fryslân Text
- RTV Drenthe
- RTV Oost
- TV Gelderland Teletekst
Subtitling only
- SBS Text (NET5 Text, SBS6 Text, Veronica Text. Main teletext service ended 1 January 2018.)
Defunct service
- Fox Sports(Ended 27 June 2019)
Norway
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation: NRK Tekst-TV
- TV 2: TV 2 Text
- TVNorge
- TV3
Pakistan
- PTV Teletext service
Poland
- Telegazeta (Telewizja Polska)[30]
- Gazeta TV Polsat (Polsat)
- Gazeta TV4 (TV4)
- Telestrony (TVN)
- Mediatext 5 (Tele5)
- Mediatext 1P (Polonia 1)
- 4fun.tv Text
Portugal
- RTP Texto (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal)[31]
- SIC Teletexto (SIC)
- Teletexto TVI (TVI)[32]
Romania
- Teletext TVR (TVR 1, TVR 2, TVR 3, TVRi)
- CNM Text (Boomerang, TV Market)
- Antena Group Teletext (ZU TV)
Russia
- Channel One
- Russia 1(subtitles only)
- Match TV (subtitles only)
- NTV
- Channel 5
- Russia K(subtitles only)
- Karusel (subtitles only)
- REN TV (subtitles only)
- CENTR-INFO (TV Center)
- STS (subtitles only)
- Domashny (subtitles only)
- TV-3(subtitles only)
- Friday! (subtitles only)
- Zvezda (subtitles only)
- TNT (subtitles only)
- 2x2 (subtitles only)
- Mir (subtitles only)
- Soyuz (subtitles only)
- Che! (subtitles only)
- STS LOVE (subtitles only)
- TNT4 (subtitles only)
- Kuhnya TV (subtitles only)
- Auto Plus (subtitles only)
- Animal Planet (subtitles only)
- Nickelodeon (subtitles only)
- IZ.RU (subtitles only)
- Muzika Pervogo (subtitles only)
- Super! (subtitles only)
- Match! Strana (subtitles only)
Defunct services
- 1 kanal Ostankino
- ORT
- 4 kanal Ostankino
- Rossiskije University
- RTR
- MTV Russia (2006-2008)
- 2x2
- Russia-Kuban
- Peterburgksiy teletext (TNT-Peterburg, Peterburg - 5 kanal, Regionalnoe televidenie)
- Sevastopolskiy teletext (NTS)
- Nizhegorodskiy teletext (NTR, NNTV, ORT)
- Prima-TV
- Stolitca
- 31 kanal
- TV-6
- MTK
- Sluzhba Teletext (M1)
Serbia
- TeletextB92 (B92)
- Prva Teletekst (Prva Srpska Televizija)
- Happy teletext Happy TV
- Pink Teletekst (RTV Pink)
- RTS Teletekst (RTS2)
- RTV Teletekst (RTV1 RTV2)
- Sport Klub TXT
- RTV Studio B TXT
- Arena Sport Teletext (Arena Sport 1)
Defunct services
- BK Videotext (BKTV)
- Super TV Teletext (Super TV)
- Enter Teletext (TV Enter)
- 3K Text (RTS 3K)
- Avala text (Avala)
Slovakia
- STV text (Slovenská televízia)
- markiza-text (Markíza)
- JOJ text (TV JOJ)
Slovenia
- MMC Teletekst (Radiotelevizija Slovenija)[33]
South Africa
- Teledata (only available on SABC 2; rarely updated)
Spain
- Teletexto TVE[34] (Televisión Española (Since 1988)[35])
- Teletexto AtresMediaAntena 3, laSexta)
- Teletexto Mediaset (Cuatro, FDF)
- Teletexto Televisió de Catalunya
- Energy (only for subtitles)
- Divinity (only for subtitles)
- Boing (only for subtitles)
- BeMad (only for subtitles)
Defunct services
- Telemadrid (1991-2013)
- Televisión de Galicia (1995–2018)
Sweden
- SVT Text (Sveriges Television)
Defunct services
- Kanal 5 Text (Kanal 5)
- TV3 Text (TV3)
- TV6 Text (TV6)
- TV4 Text (TV4)
Switzerland
- TELETEXT (Made by SWISS TXT for all national TV stations, including TSI).[37]
- 3+ TEXT (3+)
- RTL II TEXT CH(RTL 2)
- SSF TEXT (Schweizer Sportfernsehen)
Turkey
Defunct services
Ukraine
- INTERTEXT (The Teletext on Inter Media Group TV channels, also is available on-line at Інтертекст)
Vietnam
- DN2-Asia, first Vietnamese language teletext.
Countries with no teletext services
Worldwide
Australia
- Austext (Seven Network) (1982–30 September 2009)
Belarus
- Beltek (Belarus-1) (defunct from 2008)
Belgium
- VRT-Teletekst (VRT. Service ended 1 June 2016)
Bulgaria
- Televest (BNT 1) (defunct since 2017)
- Evrokom text (Evrokom NKTV) (defunct)
- Nova text (Nova TV) (defunct since 2012)
Canada
The
Estonia
- ETV teletekst (Eesti Televisioon) (defunct)[40]
- TV3 Estonia) (defunct)
Indonesia
- TVRI-Text (TVRI, 1995 - 1999)
- RCTI Seputar (RCTI, 1997 - 1999)
Israel
Japan
- TV Asahi Data Vision (TV Asahi) (7 April 1986 – 24 July 2011)
- AXES4 (Nippon TV) (1985-31 March 2007)
- TBS)
- Fuji TV
- Tokyo Metropolitan Television
- Nikkei Telepress (TV Tokyo)
Malaysia
- Beriteks (RTM) (1985-2000)
- TV3) (1985-2008)
New Zealand
- TV3) (1984–2 April 2013)
Singapore
- MediaCorp Teletext (MediaCorp TV Channel 5, MediaCorp TV Channel 8, MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia) (1 August 1983 – 30 September 2013)
Thailand
- "ข่าวเขียน อสมท" Or Electronic News (Modernine TV) (1983-1993)
- "Infonet" (Channel 3 (Thailand)) (Known up until 1996 as ข่าวเขียน ช่อง 3)
United Kingdom
Teletext was created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Different systems existed, but by the end of the decade they converged, with the creation of the World System Teletext (WST). WST remained in use for analogue broadcasts until 2012.
Service | Channel | Start | End | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 Text | Channel 5 | 1997 | 2011 | |
ATR Text | At the Races |
200? | 2013 | |
Anglia Text | Anglia |
1995 | 2004 | |
Border Text | Border |
1995 | 2004 | |
Carlton Plus | ITV1 Carlton | 1995 | 2004 | The service included the former Westcountry regions from 1999
|
Ceefax | BBC One and BBC Two | 1973 | 2012 | The world's first Teletext system. |
Centext | Central |
1995 | 1999 | |
FourText (formerly 4-Tel) |
Channel 4 | 1982 | 2003 | Known as 4-Tel until 2002 |
Grampian Text | STV Grampian | 1995 | 2010? | |
Granada Text | Granada |
1995 | 2004 | |
HTV Wales Teletext + | ITV1 HTV Wales | 1995 | 2004 | |
HTV West Teletext + | ITV1 HTV West | 1995 | 2004 | |
LWT 600 Plus | LWT |
1995 | 2004 | |
Meridian | Meridian |
1995 | 2004 | |
MTVtext | MTV | 1992 | 20?? | |
Music Box Teletext | Music Box | 1984 | 1987 | Incorporated into SuperText when Super Channel replaced Music Box. |
NickText | Nickelodeon | 1994 | ? | |
ORACLE | ITV and Channel 4 | 1974 | 1992 | |
RacingUK | Racing UK |
2005 | 2016 | The UK's last Teletext system. |
Parlifax | BBC Parliament | 1996 | 20?? | |
Paramount Text | Paramount Comedy | 1995 | 2004 | |
Sbectel | S4C | 1982 | 2009 | |
Scot-Text | ITV1 Scottish TV | 1995 | 2011? | |
Sci Fi Text | Syfy |
1995? | 2000 | |
Sky Text | various BSkyB channels |
1985 | 30 October 2013 | |
SuperText | Super Channel | 1987 | 1998 | |
Teletext Ltd. | ITV1, Channel 4 and S4C | 1993 | 2009 | |
Teletext Ltd. | Five |
2002 | 2009 | |
Teletext on 4 |
Channel 4 | 2003 | 2009 | |
ToonText | Cartoon Network | 1993? | ? | |
Tyne Tees Television (teletext) | Tyne Tees |
1995 | 2004 | |
UTV Plus | ITV UTV |
1995 | 20?? | |
Westcountry Text | Westcountry |
1995 | 1999 | |
Yorkshire Television Text | Yorkshire Television |
1995 | 2004 |
Ceefax
The first test transmissions were made by the BBC in 1972–74, with the name Ceefax ("see facts"). The Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974 with thirty pages of information. Due to the adoption of a common teletext standard (WST), the Ceefax system ceased in 1976. The name was retained for the service itself, that continued after that year using the WST standard.
Oracle
ORACLE was first broadcast on the ITV network in the mid-late 1970s. Due to the adoption of a common teletext standard (WST), the ORACLE system ceased in 1976. The name was retained for the service itself, that continued after that year using the WST standard.
United States
- AgText (Kentucky Educational Television, 1980s–1998)
- Datavizion (WHA-TV/Discovery Channel, 1980s)
- Superstation WTBS/SPN, 1980s–1993)
- ExtraVision (CBS, 1983–1986)
- Infotext (WHA-TV/Discovery Channel, 1980s)
- KeyFax (WTBS/WFLD-TV, 1980s)
- NBC Teletext (NBC, 1983–1985)
- Tempo Text (WTBS/SPN, 1980s–1993)
- Time Teletext (1980s)
United States
Adoption in the United States was hampered due to a lack of a single teletext standard and consumer resistance to the high initial price of teletext decoders. Throughout the period of analogue broadcasting, teletext or other similar technologies in the US were practically non-existent, with the only technologies resembling such existing in the country being closed captioning,
A version of the European teletext standard designed to work with the
CBS decided on Antiope and mounted a large market trial in Los Angeles in partnership with NBC and
NABTS
Later, an official North American standard of teletext, called NABTS (North American Broadcast Teletext Specification) was developed in the early 1980s by Norpak, a Canadian company. NABTS provided improved graphic and text capability over WST, but was quite short-lived. This was mainly due to the expensive cost of NABTS decoders, costing in the thousands of dollars upon their release to the public. NABTS, however, was adopted for a short while by American TV networks NBC & CBS throughout the early-to-mid 80s, CBS using it for their short-lived ExtraVision teletext service, which premiered after the early Antiope & Ceefax trials by CBS & KNXT, and NBC, who had a NABTS-based service called NBC Teletext for a very short time in the mid-1980s. NBC discontinued their service in 1985 due to the cost of NABTS decoders not dropping to an affordable level for the consumer public.[46]
The NABTS protocol received a revival of sorts in the late 90s, when it was used for the
1990s: InterCast
InterCast was a modern teletext-like system created by Intel in 1996, using a TV tuner card installed in a desktop PC running Windows with the InterCast Viewer software. The software would receive data representing HTML pages via the VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval) of a television channel's video, while displaying in a window in the InterCast software the TV channel itself. The HTML data received would then be displayed in another window in the Intercast software. It usually was extra supplemental information relevant to the TV program being viewed, such as extra clues for the viewer during a murder mystery show, or extra news headlines or extended weather forecasts during a newscast.
(now MTV2), utilized InterCast technology to complement their programming. InterCast, however, fell into disuse, and Intel discontinued support of InterCast a few years later.WaveTop
Another service in the US similar in delivery and content to teletext was the WaveTop service, provided and operated by the Wavephore Corporation. It used the same types of InterCast-compatible TV tuner cards, and used an application that ran under Windows, like InterCast. In fact, WaveTop software was also bundled with TV tuner cards that had InterCast software bundled with them as well.
However, Wavetop was an independent service from InterCast, and wasn't a complementary service to a television program or channel like the latter. In fact, viewing television with a TV card was not possible while the WaveTop software was running, since the software utilized the TV tuner card as a full-time data receiver.
WaveTop provided content from several different providers in the form of HTML pages displayed in the WaveTop software, such as news articles from the
When it was in operation, WaveTop's data was delivered on the VBI of local public TV stations
Guide+
Yet another service in the U.S. that relied on data delivery via the VBI like teletext, was the Guide+ (Guide Plus, also referred to as GuidePlus+ as well) service provided and developed by
Guide+ was a free service, supported by advertisements displayed on-screen in the Guide+ menu and listing screens, not unlike
Guide+ was discontinued by Gemstar in June 2004, and soon afterwards,
Guide+ in the United States was replaced by Gemstar with a similar service (delivered in the same fashion via VBI like Guide+), called
The Guide+ name and service was still used in Europe by Gemstar until that version of the service was phased out in 2016.[50] The same service was known in Japan as G-Guide.[citation needed]
Star Sight
Similar to Guide+ was Star Sight,[51] with its decoders built into TVs manufactured by Zenith, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Magnavox, and others. This was an electronic program guide service similar to Guide+, but was a service that relied on monthly subscription fees paid by the user, not from revenue gathered from on-screen advertisements like Guide+. Star Sight discontinued operations on 21 July 2003, due to a lack of subscribers to the service. Star Sight's data was also delivered on the VBI of local PBS stations through the PBS National Datacast division, much like how WaveTop was delivered as mentioned previously in this article.
International
World System Teletext
World System Teletext (or WST) is the name of a standard for teletext throughout Europe today. Almost all television sets sold in Europe since the early ’80s have built-in WST-standard teletext decoders as a feature.
It originally stems from the UK standards developed by the BBC (Ceefax) and the UK Independent Broadcasting Authority (ORACLE) in 1974 for teletext transmission, extended in 1976 as the Broadcast Teletext Specification.
With some tweaks to allow for alternative national character sets, and adaptations to the NTSC 525-line system as necessary, this was then promoted internationally as "World System Teletext".
It was accepted by CCIR in 1986 as CCIR Teletext System B, one of four recognized standards for teletext worldwide.
WST was also used for a short time in the US, with services provided throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s by several regional American TV networks (such as the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Infotext service in the mid-1980s, which was carried on several TV stations across Wisconsin (and nationally by The Discovery Channel),[52][53] and Agtext, provided by Kentucky Educational Television and carried on KET's stations, both services providing agriculturally oriented information) and major-market U.S. TV stations (such as Metrotext, which was formerly carried on station KTTV in Los Angeles, and KeyFax, formerly on WFLD in Chicago).
Perhaps the most prominent of American teletext providers was the
Australian company
A significant reason for the demise of American teletext was when Zenith introduced built-in closed captioning decoders in TVs in the early '90s, as mandated by the FCC. It was not practical for Zenith to re-design their TV chassis models that previously had teletext decoder support to have both teletext and closed captioning support. So Zenith decided to drop the teletext features, therefore ending teletext service in the US in the early 1990s, considering Zenith was the only major manufacturer of teletext-equipped sets in the United States.
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