Ceefax, the world's first teletext service created by BBC engineers in 1974, will disappear forever tonight as the final part of the digital TV switchover is completed. By Ben Bryant 23 October 2012 • ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...

The digital takeover claimed its latest victim today as Ceefax, the BBC’s iconic teletext service, broadcast its very last page. The switchover will be completed today as the old analogue signal is ...

Long before we had internet newsfeeds or Twitter, Ceefax delivered up-to-the-minute news right to your television screen. Launched by the BBC in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service, ...

The end is nigh: Ceefax will come to an end tonight after 38 years BBC Ceefax is set for its final bow tonight as the TV text service ends after nearly four decades to make way for the UK's digital ...

You may have missed it, but a little bit of television history came to an end this weekend as the BBC essentially pulled the plus on its Ceefax transmissions, bringing to an end the world’s first ...

The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set to complete ...

People living in London and its surrounding areas on Wednesday joined those in other parts of the country who have gone through digital switchover. One of the effects of this is that they will no ...

The teletext service Ceefax will be switched off in the London area today (April 18). The long-running analogue TV information service will be turned off after nearly 40 years as part of the ongoing ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...

The digital takeover claimed its latest victim today as Ceefax, the BBC’s iconic teletext service, broadcast its very last page. The switchover will be completed today as the old analogue signal is ...

BBC Ceefax is set for its final bow tonight as the TV text service ends after nearly four decades to make way for the UK's digital switchover. The much-loved service will be taken off air this evening ...