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Teletext services to close 14th/15th December

Paul — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:51:19 +0000

Teletext services on terrestrial will cease from the 14th/15th December. More details are available on Page 139 on Freeview’s Teletext channel.

Other changes this week

Paul — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:16:04 +0000

Babestation has launched on channel 42. You may need to rescan your Freeview box to pick it up. It’s on air 1am to 6am daily. Also, SmileTV3 has launched on channel 37, which airs midnight to 8am daily. Other changes from earlier this week include Big Deal moving to channel 32 (10pm to 5am daily), SmileTV1 closing, new Teletext text service Mobilizer launching on channel 109 and Virgin1 +1 reducing their hours to 6pm to 1am.

Teletext preparing for digital-only service

Paul — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:08:44 +0000

Digital Spy is reporting how Teletext is preparing to become a digital-only service once the analogue services are switched off. Digital Spy says “Teletext is to cut up to 16 jobs after turning over some editorial and administrative functions to the Press Association… Ofcom questioned the need for a public service teletext licence beyond 2014, and permitted Teletext to dramatically cut the number of national and regional news pages it publishes”. Read more at Digital Spy.

‘Rabbit’ has launched

Paul — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:14:56 +0000

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 and also allows them to send in pictures of themselves & have them displayed on the channel. ‘Rabbit’ is very much like one of those Sky dating channels. It’s all done using MHEG technology so it’s quite impressive what features it has when you think it’s only an MHEG application.

‘Rabbit’ placeholder appears; Teletext Cars removed

Paul — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:55:04 +0000

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.

New interactive service coming soon

Paul — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:52:37 +0000

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’.

NHS Direct moves to Teletext

Paul — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:40:07 +0000

Interactive service NHS Direct has moved from Sky Text to Teletext. Please tune to Teletext from now on to access the service.