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Ceefax

Ceefax (/ˈsiːfæks/) was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service. Ceefax was started by the BBC in 1974 and ended at 23:32:19 BST (11:32:19 p.m.) on 23 October 2012 after 38 years of broadcasting, in line with the digital switchover completion in Northern Ireland.

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Country of origin
United Kingdom
Network
BBC analogue (via "Text" button) · BBC One (1980–1997) · BBC Two (1980–2012)
Original language
English
Production company
BBC
Release
23 September 1974 (1974-09-23) – 23 October 2012 (2012-10-23)

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Technology

Pages and content

Pages from Ceefax

Teefax

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Ceefax

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples85
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

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Ceefax

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related to Closure · 17
Ceefax → BBC, BBC One, BBC Two, BBC's Ceefax, Businesses, In, News, October, Sky Digital, Sport, The, Tuesday, TV, TV Listings, UK, Until, Weather
related to Fully electronic version · 13
Ceefax → Approval, BBC, BBC's Director, Created, Engineering, October, Philips Lead Designer, September, Sir James Redmond, The, The BBC, United Kingdom, VDUs John Adams
related to history · 13
Ceefax → BBC1, Breakfast Time, Ceefax AM, February, In-vision Ceefax, It, January, March, On, Pages, Radio Times, Transmissions, Vision
related to Teefax · 12
Ceefax → August, Britain, France, Germany, It's, Kwan, Peter Kwan, Raspberry Pi, Teefax, Teletext-capable TV, The, To
related to Pages from Ceefax · 8
Ceefax → Audio, BBC1, BBC2, It, November, Pages, The, TV
related to Technology · 6
Ceefax → As, CCIR, CCIR Teletext System, ITU-R BT, The Ceefax/ORACLE, World System Teletext
related to Content · 5
Ceefax → BBC, BBC TV, In, Initially, Other
related to External links · 4
Ceefax → BBC Ceefax, BBC OnlineLast, CeefaxBBC News, CeefaxCeefax
Network · 3
Ceefax → BBC analogue (via "Text" button), BBC One (1980–1997), BBC Two (1980–2012)
Country of origin · 1
Ceefax → United Kingdom

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bbc pages teletext service first system information page broadcast 2012 oracle tv news early two text october time analogue years

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CeefaxCountry of originUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
CeefaxNetworkBBC analogue (via "Text" button)1.00infobox
CeefaxNetworkBBC One (1980–1997)1.00infobox
CeefaxNetworkBBC Two (1980–2012)1.00infobox
CeefaxOriginal languageEnglish1.00infobox
CeefaxProduction companyBBC1.00infobox
CeefaxRelease23 September 1974 (1974-09-23) – 23 October 2012 (2012-10-23)1.00infobox
Ceefaxrelated to ClosureUntil0.60section
Ceefaxrelated to ClosureBBC's Ceefax0.60section
Ceefaxrelated to ClosureNews0.60section
Ceefaxrelated to ClosureSport0.60section
Ceefaxrelated to ClosureWeather0.60section

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