Anyhow, never mind Televox. Anyone remember the shortly lived After Hours service that was launched on Teletext in early 1993. It lasted literally a few weeks and was pulled down because the ITC got involved due to a few people complaining despite you could only view the service from 11pm onwards.
On UTV there are still the 600 pages. I always keep checking 615 - it has details for DTT transmissions - listing channels from the early stages of Ondigital (eg Carlton channels)
The 600 cycle is a bit of a ghost site when no one has noticed after over 18 months of Freeview that the channel details are wrong!
Channel Television do their own pages from 200-299, as well as 600-699.
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Last time I watched Channel they had their own CTV Text on P200 and Meridian Text from P600. I didn't know they did both.
Granada used to have a good ancillary service, it even had an out of date page giving you a link to an old Granada Media site, but they dropped it all in favour of 'ITV1 Granada Text' an option being done by most ITV PLC regions now.
Granada used to have a good ancillary service, it even had an out of date page giving you a link to an old Granada Media site, but they dropped it all in favour of 'ITV1 Granada Text' an option being done by most ITV PLC regions now.
Yorkshire and Tyne Tees still have the same ancillary text service that they've had for a good five years or more complete with yellow chevron and TTTV logo respectively, and next to no mention of ITV1.
The channel identifier tag which appears when you switch on the TV also still says YORKSHIRE TELEVISION or TYNE TEES TELEVISION. Are any other ITV1 regions similarly non-corporate when it comes to their local text service?
Granada used to have a good ancillary service, it even had an out of date page giving you a link to an old Granada Media site, but they dropped it all in favour of 'ITV1 Granada Text' an option being done by most ITV PLC regions now.
Yorkshire and Tyne Tees still have the same ancillary text service that they've had for a good five years or more complete with yellow chevron and TTTV logo respectively, and next to no mention of ITV1.
The channel identifier tag which appears when you switch on the TV also still says YORKSHIRE TELEVISION or TYNE TEES TELEVISION. Are any other ITV1 regions similarly non-corporate when it comes to their local text service?
Well suprisingly AFAIK the channel tag is still 'GRANADA TELEVISION', though apparently there have been a couple of regions that have changed their tags to 'ITV1......'
It just came to me earlier, how is S4C Text still done? Is it still made by Intelfax, or has this been Teletext-fied? Have they changed to P400 rather than P300 like Channel 4.
I actually had a look on the analogue service of 'Teletext on 4' earlier and content wise it is very informative, doesn't beat 4-Tel.
I was quite impressed watching one of my old videos last year and you know when you try to press text to see if any text comes up from the video recording and most of the time it's jumble. Well this old video from 1991 came up with the channel identifier as "ITV ORACLE" It brought a tear to my eye!
I'm always quite amazed when that happens, if a VHS recording from a is clean enough a whole entire teletext service can be accessed which is somewhat like a mini-time capsule, shame recordable DVDs and PVRs didn't exist then.
Well suprisingly AFAIK the channel tag is still 'GRANADA TELEVISION', though apparently there have been a couple of regions that have changed their tags to 'ITV1......'
It just came to me earlier, how is S4C Text still done? Is it still made by Intelfax, or has this been Teletext-fied? Have they changed to P400 rather than P300 like Channel 4.
I actually had a look on the analogue service of 'Teletext on 4' earlier and content wise it is very informative, doesn't beat 4-Tel.
Sbectel moved to 400 some time last year -- the content and style hasn't changed for at least eight years mind.
Local 600 text sometimes says ITV Wales and sometimes HTV Wales, depending on what's for tea. The channel identifier thingyo has always been HTV Wales though. All in big no-need capitals.
The bobbins red dragon is still there on the front page. It's kept reasonably up-to-date I guess, when it's not flashing up Christmas tv listings for Carlton. Mind you, can't remember the last time a local programme mentioned back-up on teletext.