Yes, I'm afraid Teletext closed down yesterday and there have been a lot of redundancies as a result. Apparently the service had not made money for quite a long time. With more people getting their news from the internet, advertisers were no longer interested in advertising there. Only the holiday section brought in any money and that was not enough to prop the rest up. It's very sad. Definitely the end of an era.

The teletext service was nothing to do with ITV and run 100% independently from them as it was set up as a national service for ITV and Channel 4 years ago when back in the day ITV was all regional. A rugby supporting mate of mine worked their so thats why the page was always well updated.

My aerial in Wigan (sorry for swearing) can pick up BBC 1 Yorkshire so I can still use BBC CEEFAX for another two years at least. The digital text is rubbish!

Backward TV for backward people

I prefer digital text service. How frustrating it was using the analogue teletext or ceefax when after pressing the text button on the remote control you were straight on the page you wanted, i.e. page 30 of 30, only for it go back to page 1 before you had a chance to press hold.

That was all part of the fun