Posted August 3rd, 2008 by Paul
Freeview
The Olympics opening ceremony is this Friday on the BBC. Olympics coverage has been expanded on the Freeview platform. As previously mentioned, BBC Parliament will be used to provide an additional video feed (BBC Parliament can be used because parliament is in recess for the summer anyway). It has also now been announced the Community [...]
Tags: Freeview, interactive, olympics, red button, Virgin Media
Posted June 24th, 2008 by Paul
The sports section on the Freeview BBC interactive service has been improved. When you press red from any BBC channel, you can now select Sport Home which takes you to a new and improved section. The section now links to the BBCi video streams for Interactive video services and tells you what’s on now so [...]
Tags: bbc, Freeview, interactive, sport
Posted May 18th, 2008 by Paul
The new interactive dating & chat service from Teletext – ‘Rabbit’ – has launched on Freeview channel 102. The channel used to be home to Teletext Cars but was renamed to ‘Rabbit’ on the EPG recently. The ‘Rabbit’ service has now launched. The service enables viewers to text in and get their messages put on-screen [...]
Tags: Freeview, interactive, rabbit, teletext
Posted May 15th, 2008 by Paul
Teletext Cars – the interactive service from Teletext – has been removed and replaced with a placeholder message for the new interactive dating service ‘Rabbit’ on channel 102. ‘Rabbit’ is thought to be launching this month. Teletext Cars had been dormant on Freeview for a while.
Tags: Freeview, interactive, rabbit, teletext, teletext cars
Posted April 11th, 2008 by Paul
A new interactive dating service from Teletext will launch on Freeview in May. The channel will replace Teletext Cars, which is currently used as a pointer to direct people to the Teletext website. The dating service will be called ‘Rabbit’.
Tags: Freeview, interactive, teletext
Posted April 5th, 2008 by Paul
Interactive service NHS Direct has moved from Sky Text to Teletext. Please tune to Teletext from now on to access the service.
Tags: Freeview, interactive, nhs direct, sky text, teletext
Posted March 11th, 2008 by Paul
Lottery Xtra has launched on channel 45 (8.45am to 9.45am). An MHEG was previously displayed explaining it was coming soon.
Tags: Freeview, interactive, lottery xtra
Posted March 4th, 2008 by Paul
Lottery Xtra has appeared on channel 45. It’s just an MHEG screen at the moment telling us it’s coming soon to Freeview. The channel will be on air for an hour (yes, an hour!) every day from 8.45am to 9.45am. It’s not so much a channel – just a couple of programmes. Lottery programmes have [...]
Tags: Freeview, interactive, lottery xtra
