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Teletext A British Ceefax football index page from October 2009, showing the three-digit page numbers for a variety of football news stories Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipp ...
(or "broadcast teletext") is a
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...
information retrieval service developed in the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...
in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules. Subtitle (or
closed captioning Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio po ...
) information is also transmitted in the teletext signal, typically on page 888 or 777. A number of similar teletext services were developed in other countries, some of which attempted to address the limitations of the British-developed system, with its simple graphics and fixed page sizes. This is an incomplete list of teletext services available on different
television channel A television channel is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the terrestrial or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with ...
s around the world:


Countries with functioning teletext services


Albania

* Top-Channel * TVSH * Mediaset * RAI


Austria

* ORF Text (
ORF1 ORF 1 (''ORF eins'') is an Austrian public television channel owned by ORF. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955. ORF 1 is one of four public TV channels in Austria. It is funded by a mixture of advertising revenue an ...
,
ORF2 ORF 2 (''ORF zwei'', formerly FS2) is an Austrian public television channel owned by ORF. It was launched on 11 September 1961 as a technical test programme. Today it is one of the four public TV channels in Austria. ORF 2 is available ...
, ORF3) * ORF Sport Text (
ORF Sport Plus ORF Sport + is an Austrian sports channel owned by the public service broadcaster, ORF. The channel is available via satellite Astra 1KR, on 19.2°E, cable and DVB-T, in Austria and parts of Europe. History Before the launch of ORF Sport Plus ...
) * TW1 Text ( TW1) * 3satText (
3sat In logic and computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (sometimes called propositional satisfiability problem and abbreviated SATISFIABILITY, SAT or B-SAT) is the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfies ...
) * ATV TEXT ( ATV) * Puls 4 Text ( Puls 4) * Sat1 Österreich Text (Sat 1 Österreich) * ProSieben Text Austria ( Pro 7 Österreich) * kabel eins text Austria ( Kabel 1 Österreich) * RTLtext AT ( RTL Österreich) * RTL II TEXT AT (RTL 2) * Austria 9 Text (Austria 9)


Belgium


Available via DVB-T

* RTBF-Teletexte (
RTBF The ''Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française'' (RTBF, ''Belgian Radio-television of the French Community'', branded as rtbf.be) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Comm ...
)


Defunct service

* VRT-Teletekst ( VRT. Service ended 1 June 2016)


Bosnia and Herzegovina

* BHT1 Text ( BHT1) - main state level public TV channel in
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
* FTV Text ( FTV) - entity level public TV channel * RTRS Text ( RTRS) - entity level public TV channel * * * * *


Croatia

* HTV TTXT (
Croatian Radiotelevision ''Hrvatska radiotelevizija'' (abbr. HRT), or Croatian Radiotelevision, is Croatia's public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite. HRT is divided into thr ...
) * Nova Text ( Nova TV) * RTL Text ( RTL Televizija) *


Czech Republic

* Teletext ČT * Teletext
Nova A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramat ...
* Prima Teletext * Prima Cool Teletext * Prima Love Teletext * Teletext TV Óčko * Teletext TV Barrandov


Denmark

* DR Tekst-TV (
Danmarks Radio DR (), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enter ...
) * TV2 Tekst-TV ( TV2 Adopted digital teletext, but abandoned the service in 2019) * Viasat Tekst-TV (
Viasat Viasat may refer to: *Viasat (American company) (founded 1986) *Viasat (Nordic television service) (founded 1991) * Danish 1st Division, officially Viasat Divisionen, second-highest football league in Denmark * Viasat Cup, 2006 Danish football tour ...
) In fact, almost all TV channels in Denmark have teletext (called tekst-TV). Some of those services are entirely in Danish, while international channels (
Discovery Channel Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Chan ...
,
Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1, 1996, the network is primarily ...
etc.) share their teletext with the other Scandinavian countries.


Finland

The Finnish national public broadcaster Yle has its own Teletext (Yle Teksti-TV). It shows news, sport and programme information round the clock. Theme pages on the weather, traffic, work and leisure. Teksti-TV also has news in English on page 190. * Yle Teksti-TV ( Yle) * MTV3 Tekstikanava (
MTV3 MTV3 ( fi, MTV Kolme, sv, MTV Tre) is a Finnish commercial television station. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Yle TV1 (from Yle) took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV (literally "Advertisem ...
) * TekstiNelonen ( Nelonen) * Subteksti ( Sub) (defunct)


France

In France, where the
SECAM SECAM, also written SÉCAM (, ''Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire'', French for ''color sequential with memory''), is an analog color television system that was used in France, some parts of Europe and Africa, and Russia. It was one of th ...
standard is used in television broadcasting, a teletext system was developed in the late 1970s under the name ''Antiope''. It had a higher data rate and was capable of dynamic page sizes, allowing more sophisticated graphics. It was phased out in favour of standard teletext in 1991. A lot of French channels have teletext left only for subtitling. Here some with a complete text: * TF1 *
France 2 France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews. Since 3:20 CET on 7 A ...
*
France 3 France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services provi ...
*
Canal+ Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flo ...
(subtitles only) * France 5 *
Arte Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...
* M6 (subtitles only)


Germany

Almost all German TV stations have teletext. Here is a small selection: * ARD (and all regional broadcasters) * ZDF: ( ZDF, ZDFneo, ZDFinfo) * ARD & ZDF:
KiKa KiKA (contraction of ''Der KinderKAnal von ARD und ZDF''  ARD and ZDF">ARD_(broadcaster).html" ;"title="he Children's Channel of ARD (broadcaster)">ARD and ZDF]) is a German free-to-air television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. It is man ...
, Phoenix (German TV station), Phoenix *
RTL Deutschland RTL Deutschland (formerly known as ''Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland'') is a German media company based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was founded in 2007 as a holding company for the German television, broadcasting and content productio ...
: ( RTL, VOX,
RTL II RTL Zwei (stylised as RTLZWEI), formerly spelled RTL 2 and RTL II, is a German-language television channel that is operated by ''RTL2 Television GmbH & Co. KG''. RTL2 is a private television broadcaster with a full program ''(Vollprogramm)'' ...
, ... and others) *
ProSiebenSat.1 ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (officially abbreviated as P7S1, formerly ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG) is a German mass media & digital company. It operates in three segments: Entertainment, Dating and Commerce & Ventures. The company is listed on the Fran ...
: (
ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...
, Sat.1, kabel eins, ... and others) *
Tele 5 Tele 5 is a German free-to-air television channel that broadcasts classic American films, series, cartoons and Japanese anime. On 3 July 2020, Discovery, Inc. agreed to acquire the channel from Leonine Holding, completing the purchase on 1 ...
* Sport1 * Welt * ... and others


Greece

*
NERIT New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television ( el, Νέα Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία, Ίντερνετ και Τηλεόραση) or NERIT (ΝΕΡΙΤ) was the state-owned public broadcaster for Greece from 4 May 2014 to 11 June 2015. A ...
(State television channels N1, N Sports) * Mediatext (
Mega Channel MEGA Channel, also known as MEGA TV or just MEGA, is a television network in Greece, that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It is the first and the oldest private television network in Greece. History Mega Channel (1989–2018) ...
, Star Channel, Sports TV, Extra3) * Newsphone Hellas (
ANT1 Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece. The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek; ''ena'' (ένα) is the Greek number ''1'' (one), thus ''ANT1'' is pronounced the same as ''Antenna'' (Αντέννα). It laun ...
,
Alpha TV Alpha TV is a Greek free-to-air channel, being one of the biggest stations in Greece. The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on information. The studios are located in Kifissia and Pallini. Alpha TV is owned by Alp ...
,
Alter Channel Alter Channel, better known as Alter, was a private TV channel in Greece. It launched in 1990 and was owned by Eleftheri Tileorasi S.A. and was headed by Andreas Kouris. Programming mainly consisted of news, current affairs shows and entertainmen ...
,
MAD TV ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by '' Mad'' magazine. In its initial run, it aired on Fox from 1995 to 2009. After a one-off reunion show in 2015 to celebrate the twentiet ...
) * Metromedia Group (Vergina, Nickelodeon, Rise, Smile, Nickelodeon Plus, Super TV Halkidiki, Ionian Channel, Atlas TV)


Hungary

* m1Text ( m1) * m2Text ( m2) * TV2 Text ( TV2) * Klub text (
RTL Klub RTL (formerly: RTL Klub) is a Hungarian free-to-air television channel owned by RTL Group. The channel began broadcasting three days after its main rival TV2, one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels. History Since its start, RTL Klub ...
) * Viasat 3 (
Viasat 3 Viasat 3 is a Hungarian TV channel. It began broadcasting on October 23, 2000. Viasat 3 aired Hungary's first reality show in 2001 called ''A Bár'' ( The Bar). In 2015, the Sony Pictures Television acquired the Hungarian Viasat channels fro ...
)


Iceland

*
RÚV Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) (pronounced or ) ( en, 'The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service') is Iceland's national public-service broadcasting organization. Operating from studios in the country's capital, Reykjavík, as well as regional cent ...
textavarp (Icelandic public TV station RÚV) available to view a
Textavarp.is


Ireland

* RTÉ Aertel (
RTÉ One RTÉ One ( ga, RTÉ a hAon) is an Irish free-to-air flagship television channel owned and operated by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). It is the most-popular and most-watched television channel in the country and was launched as ''Telefís ...
and
RTÉ Two (RTÉ) (; Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the national broadcaster of Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while ...
) Still available in "analogue" on Sky in January 2019. Provided in "digital" on
Saorview Saorview ( ) is the national digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in Ireland. It is owned by RTÉ and operated by 2RN. The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with a full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation i ...
,


Defunct services

* threetext ( TV3, 2001 - 201?) * Téacs TG4 (
TG4 TG4 ( ga, TG Ceathair, ) is an Irish free-to-air public service television network. The channel launched on 31 October 1996 and is available online and through its on demand service TG4 Player in Ireland and beyond. TG4 was formerly known ...
) (1999 - 20??)


Italy

State-owned RAI launched its Teletext service, called Televideo, in 1984. *
Televideo TeleVideo Corporation was a U.S. company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing computer terminals. TeleVideo was founded in 1975 by K. Philip Hwang, a Utah State University, Hanyang University graduate born in South Kore ...
(
RAI RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...
)


Defunct services

MTV Video was active between 2000 and 2010, while "LA7 Video", the Teletext service of La7, was launched in 2001 but discontinued in 2014. Mediaset, the main commercial broadcaster, launched its Mediavideo Teletext in 1997 (discontinued in 2022). * La7Video (
La7 La7 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Cairo Communication. Until 2013 it was a pay-per-view channel owned by Telecom Italia Media and operated by Telecom Italia. Signal overspill means that parts of Albania, Croatia, Swi ...
) * MTVVideo (
MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
) *
Mediavideo ''Mediavideo'' was the teletext service broadcast on the primary Mediaset television channels (Rete 4, Canale 5, Italia 1) in Italy. References

Television in Italy {{Italy-tv-stub ...
(
Mediaset Mediaset Italia S.p.A., also known as Mediaset, is an Italian-based mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE - MediaForEurope. Founded in 1987 by former ...
)


Latvia

* TV3.lv (
TV3 Latvia Channel 3 or TV 3 may refer to: Television *Canal 3 (Burkina Faso), a commercial television channel in Burkina Faso *Canal 3 (Guatemala), a commercial television channel in Guatemala * Channel 3 (Algeria), a public Algerian TV channel owned by EPT ...
)


Defunct service

* Latvian Television used to have teletext, but as of March 2007, it is closed.


Luxembourg

* RTL Text (
RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg is the main television channel in Luxembourg, broadcasting in Luxembourgish. It is part of RTL Group. History The small television market in Luxembourg led to a unique system in Europe: Luxembourg was the only country in t ...
)


Netherlands

The Netherlands has run a regular Teletext service since the end of 1977 on the public broadcasting channels, and the commercial and regional channels that were later introduced also have their own services. Some of these channels also run Tekst-TV, which broadcasts a selection of their teletext pages as a regular TV broadcast, using improved fonts and background graphics, when no normal programming is shown. *
Fox Sports Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world. The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the Fo ...
* NOS Teletekst (
NPO 1 NPO 1 (''NPO een'', formerly Nederland 1 until 2014) is the first national television station in the Netherlands. It launched on 2 October 1951. It provides public broadcasting and currently exists next to sister channels NPO 2 and NPO 3. Severa ...
,
NPO 2 NPO 2 (''NPO twee'', formerly Nederland 2 until 2014) is a Dutch television channel, sister channel of NPO 1 and NPO 3. It was established on 1 October 1964 at 20:00, initially with a 2.5 hours schedule until 22:30. NPO 2 tends to broadcast art ...
and
NPO 3 NPO 3 (''NPO drie'', formerly Nederland 3 until 2014) is the third and youngest of the terrestrial television channels operated by the Dutch public-broadcasting organization NPO in the Netherlands. It carries programmes provided by member-based ...
) *
Omroep Brabant Omroep Brabant is the Netherlands Public Broadcasting regional television and radio broadcaster in the North Brabant Province in the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_t ...
*
Omrop Fryslân Omrop Fryslân is a broadcaster on the NPO which serves the Frisian community. Because West Frisian is an official language of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the NPO is also responsible for broadcasts in the West Frisian language. Omrop Frysl ...
Text * RTV Drenthe *
RTV Oost The Dutch public broadcasting system ( nl, Nederlands publieke omroepbestel) is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep ...
*
TV Gelderland TV Gelderland is a regional public TV station for the Dutch province of Gelderland. Omroep Gelderland launched its channel in 1996. The regional news bulletin called ''TV Gelderland Nieuws'' is broadcast daily live at 13.00 and 18:00, repeated ev ...
Teletekst


Subtitling only

*
RTL Nederland RTL Nederland is a Dutch media network, a subsidiary of the RTL Group. The media company is located in Hilversum, although the licences of its TV stations are issued in Luxembourg. History The history of the network dates back to 1989 when dutch ...
Text (
RTL 4 RTL 4 (Radio Télévision Luxembourg 4) is a Dutch free-to-air, free-to-cable television channel; it is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. RTL 4 is a general entertainment chan ...
,
RTL 5 RTL 5 is a Dutch free-to-cable television channel that was launched on 2 October 1993. It mainly broadcasts American films and hit series but also reality shows, comedy, travel, international shows and local productions including ''Expeditie Robi ...
, RTL7 and
RTL 8 RTL 8 is a Dutch free-to-cable television channel that was launched on 18 August 2007 replacing Tien, previously known as Talpa. RTL 8's main target audience consists of women. It broadcasts soap operas, talk shows, films and reruns of progra ...
) * SBS Text (NET5 Text, SBS6 Text, Veronica Text. Main teletext service ended 1 January 2018.)


Norway

*
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...
: NRK Tekst-TV * TV 2: TV 2 Text *
TVNorge TVNorge (literally "TVNorway"; originally abbreviated TVN, now just abbreviated N in the logos) is a Norwegian television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA. History TVNorge went on the air on 5 December 1988 and was the first adver ...
* TV3


Pakistan

* PTV Teletext service


Poland

* Telegazeta (
Telewizja Polska Telewizja Polska S.A. (; "Polish Television"; TVP), also known in English as the public Polish Television is a Polish state media corporation. It is the largest Polish television network, although viewership has been declining in the 2010s. Sinc ...
) * Gazeta TV Polsat (
Polsat Polsat is a Polish free-to-air television channel that was launched on 5 December 1992 by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak. , it is the most watched television channel in Poland with a market share of 11.30% Polsat belongs to Grupa Polsat Plus ( WSECPS, whi ...
) * Gazeta TV4 (
TV4 TV4 or TV 4 may refer to: *TV4 (Poland), a private Polish television station *TV4 (Sweden), a Swedish television network **TV4 Group, owners of the Swedish television station *South African Broadcasting Corporation TV4, a channel operated by the st ...
) * Telestrony (
TVN TVN may refer to: * TVN (Australian TV channel), a former horse racing channel * Televisión Nacional de Chile, a public broadcaster * TVN (Indonesia), a former television station; predecessor of Rajawali Televisi * TVN (Norway), or TVNorge, a comm ...
) * Mediatext 5 ( Tele5) * Mediatext 1P (
Polonia 1 Polonia 1 is one of the first Polish commercial television channels, consisting at first of a network of 12 (and - for a short time - even 13) local TV stations in bigger cities. The station was established by Sardinian businessman Nicola Grauso, ...
) * 4fun.tv Text


Portugal

* RTP Texto (
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) is the public service broadcasting organisation of Portugal. It operates four national television channels and three national radio stations, as well as several satellite and cable offerings. The current co ...
) * SIC Teletexto (
SIC The Latin adverb ''sic'' (; "thus", "just as"; in full: , "thus was it written") inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text, complete with any e ...
) * Teletexto TVI ( TVI)


Romania

* Teletext TVR (
TVR 1 TVR 1 (; spelled out as ''Televiziunea Română 1'', "Romanian Television 1") is the main channel of the Romanian public broadcaster TVR. The most important show of the channel is Jurnalul TVR, whose motto is ("The news journal as it should ...
,
TVR 2 TVR 2 (, spelled out as ''Televiziunea Română 2'', "Romanian Television 2") is the second channel of the public broadcaster TVR. The channel was launched on May 2, 1968, but it was suspended from January 20, 1985, until February 19, 1990. Fr ...
, TVR 3, TVRi) * Pro Text (Pro TV, Pro 2, Pro Gold, Pro Cinema, Pro X, PRO TV Internațional) * CNM Text (Național TV, Național 24 Plus, Favorit TV, CineEst, Boomerang (CEE), Boomerang, TV Market) * Antena Group Teletext (Antena 1 (Romania), Antena 1, Antena Stars, Antena 3 (Romania), Antena 3, Happy Channel (Romania), Happy Channel, ZU TV)


Russia

* Channel One (Russia), Channel One * Russia 1 (subtitles only) * Match TV (subtitles only) * NTV (Russia), NTV * 5TV (Russian TV channel), Channel 5 * Russia K (subtitles only) * Carousel (TV channel), Karusel (subtitles only) * REN TV (subtitles only) * CENTR-INFO (TV Center) * STS (TV channel), STS (subtitles only) * Domashny (subtitles only) * TV-3 (Russia), TV-3 (subtitles only) * Friday! (subtitles only) * Zvezda (TV channel), Zvezda (subtitles only) * TNT (Russian TV channel), TNT (subtitles only) * 2×2 (TV channel), 2x2 (subtitles only) * Mir (subtitles only) * Soyuz (subtitles only) * Che! (subtitles only) * STS LOVE (subtitles only) * TNT4 (subtitles only) * Kuhnya TV (subtitles only) * Auto Plus (subtitles only) * Animal Planet (subtitles only) * Nickelodeon (subtitles only) * IZ.RU (subtitles only) * Muzika Pervogo (subtitles only) * Super! (subtitles only) * Match! Strana (subtitles only)


Defunct services

* 1 kanal Ostankino * ORT * 4 kanal Ostankino * Rossiskije University * RTR * MTV Russia (2006-2008) * 2x2 * Russia-Kuban * Peterburgksiy teletext (TNT-Peterburg, Peterburg - 5 kanal, Regionalnoe televidenie) * Sevastopolskiy teletext (NTS) * Nizhegorodskiy teletext (NTR, NNTV, ORT) * Prima-TV * Stolitca * 31 kanal * TV-6 (Russia), TV-6 * MTK * Sluzhba Teletext (M1 (Moscow), M1)


Serbia

* TeletextB92 (B92) * Prva Teletekst (Prva Srpska Televizija) * Happy teletext Happy TV * Pink Teletekst (RTV Pink) * RTS Teletekst (RTS1, RTS2) * RTV Teletekst (Radio Television of Vojvodina, RTV1 RTV2) * Sport Klub TXT * RTV Studio B TXT * Arena Sport Teletext (Arena Sport 1)


Defunct services

* BK Videotext (BKTV) * Super TV Teletext (Super TV) * Enter Teletext (TV Enter) * 3K Text (RTS 3K) * Avala text (TV Avala, Avala)


Slovakia

*STV text (Slovenská televízia) *markiza-text (Markíza) *JOJ text (TV JOJ)


South Africa

* Teledata (only available on SABC 2; rarely updated)


Spain

* Teletexto RTVE (Televisión Española) (Since 1988) * Teletexto de Antena 3 Televisión Antena 3 (Spain), Antena 3 teletext * Cuatro TV, Cuatro teletext * Telecinco teletext * Teletexto de La Sexta Televisión (laSexta) * Televisió de Catalunya Catalan public television


Defunct services

* Telemadrid (1991-2013) * Teletexto TVG (Televisión de Galicia - 1995–2018)


Sweden

* SVT Text (Sveriges Television)


Defunct services

* Kanal 5 Text (Kanal 5 (Sweden), Kanal 5) * TV3 Text (TV3 (Sweden), TV3) * TV6 Text (TV6 (Sweden), TV6) * TV4 Text (TV4 (Sweden), TV4)


Switzerland

* TELETEXT (Made by SWISS TXT for all national TV stations, including SRG SSR idée suisse, SF, Télévision Suisse Romande, TSR and SRG SSR idée suisse, TSI). * 3+ TEXT (3+) * RTL II TEXT CH(RTL 2) * SSF TEXT (Schweizer Sportfernsehen)


Turkey

* Telegün (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, TRT) The Teletext is available online a
(Telegün)


Defunct services

* D Text (Kanal D) * ShowText (Show TV) * Start Text (Star TV (Turkey), Star TV) * AText (ATV (Turkey), ATV)


Ukraine

* INTERTEXT (The Teletext on Inter Media Group TV channels, also is available on-line a
Інтертекст


Vietnam

*DN2-Asia first Vietnamese language teletext


Countries with no teletext services


Worldwide

* BBCfax (BBC World), 1991–2012) * CNN text (CNN), 1993–2006) * TV5 text (TV5Monde), 1993–2013)


Australia

* Austext (Seven Network) (1982–30 September 2009)


Belarus

* Beltek (Belarus-1) (''defunct from 2008)''


Bulgaria

* Televest (BNT 1) (''defunct since 2017)'' * Evrokom text (Evrokom NKTV) (''defunct)'' * Nova text (Nova (Bulgarian TV), Nova TV) (''defunct since 2012)''


Canada

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC ran a teletext service, IRIS, accessible only in Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. It ran from 1983 until about 1986, and used the Canadian-developed Telidon system, which was developed in 1980. Like Antiope, Telidon allowed significantly higher graphic resolution than standard teletext.


Estonia

* ETV teletekst (Eesti Televisioon) ''(defunct)'' * TV3.ee (TV3 (Estonia), TV3 Estonia) ''(defunct)''


Indonesia

* TVRI-Text (Televisi Republik Indonesia, TVRI, 1995 - 1999) * RCTI Seputar (RCTI, 1997 - 1999)


Israel

* Israeli Educational Television


Japan

*Telemo Japan (NHK) *TV Asahi Data Vision (TV Asahi) (7 April 1986 – 24 July 2011) *AXES4 (Nippon TV) (1985-31 March 2007) *Tokyo Data Vision (Tokyo Broadcasting System, TBS) *Fuji TV *Tokyo Metropolitan Television *Nikkei Telepress (TV Tokyo)


Malaysia

* Beriteks (Radio Televisyen Malaysia, RTM) (1985-2000) * Infonet (TV3 (Malaysia), TV3) (1985-2008)


New Zealand

* TVNZ Teletext (TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, TV3 (New Zealand), TV3) (1984–2 April 2013)


Singapore

* MediaCorp Teletext (Channel 5 (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp TV Channel 5, Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp TV Channel 8, CNA (TV network), MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia) (1 August 1983 – 30 September 2013)


Thailand

* "ข่าวเขียน อสมท" Or Electronic News (Modernine TV) (1983-1993) * "Infonet" (Channel 3 (Thailand)) (Known up until 1996 as ข่าวเขียน ช่อง 3)


United Kingdom

Teletext was created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Different systems existed, but by the end of the decade they converged, with the creation of the World System Teletext (WST). WST remained in use for analogue broadcasts until 2012.


Ceefax

The first test transmissions were made by the BBC in 1972–74, with the name ''Ceefax'' ("see facts"). The Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974 with thirty pages of information. Due to the adoption of a common teletext standard (WST), the Ceefax system ceased in 1976. The name was retained for the service itself, that continued after that year using the WST standard.


Oracle

''ORACLE'' was first broadcast on the ITV (TV network), ITV network in the mid-late 1970s. Due to the adoption of a common teletext standard (WST), the ORACLE system ceased in 1976. The name was retained for the service itself, that continued after that year using the WST standard.


United States

* AgText (Kentucky Educational Television, 1980s–1998) *Datavizion (PBS Wisconsin, WHA-TV/
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United States

Adoption in the United States was hampered due to a lack of a single teletext standard and consumer resistance to the high initial price of teletext decoders. Throughout the period of analogue broadcasting, teletext or other similar technologies in the US were practically non-existent, with the only technologies resembling such existing in the country being closed captioning, TV Guide On Screen, and Extended Data Services (XDS). A version of the European teletext standard designed to work with the NTSC television standard used in North America was first demonstrated in the US in 1978 by station KSL-TV, KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah, premiered a teletext service using Ceefax. They were followed by United States, American television network CBS, which decided to try both the British Ceefax and French Antiope (teletext), Antiope software for preliminary tryouts for a teletext service, using station KMOX (now KMOV) in St. Louis, Missouri as a testing ground. CBS decided on Antiope and mounted a large market trial in Los Angeles in partnership with NBC and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television. Services premiered simultaneously on station KNXT (now KCBS-TV), KNBC and KCET in Los Angeles. All three services included an array of local news and information services. KCET's service also included service components for use in schools.


NABTS

Later, an official North American standard of teletext, called NABTS (North American Broadcast Teletext Specification) was developed in the early 1980s by Norpak, a Canadian company. NABTS provided improved graphic and text capability over WST, but was quite short-lived. This was mainly due to the expensive cost of NABTS decoders, costing in the thousands of dollars upon their release to the public. NABTS, however, was adopted for a short while by American TV networks NBC & CBS throughout the early-to-mid 80s, CBS using it for their short-lived ExtraVision teletext service, which premiered after the early Antiope & Ceefax trials by CBS & KNXT, and NBC, who had a NABTS-based service called NBC Teletext for a very short time in the mid-1980s. NBC discontinued their service in 1985 due to the cost of NABTS decoders not dropping to an affordable level for the consumer public. The NABTS protocol received a revival of sorts in the late 90s, when it was used for the datacasting features of WebTV for Windows under Windows 98, and for Intel's now-defunct InterCast service (also for Windows as well), using a proper TV tuner card (such as the ATI Technologies, ATI All-In-Wonder or Hauppauge Computer Works, Hauppauge's Win-TV).


1990s: InterCast

InterCast was a modern teletext-like system created by Intel in 1996, using a TV tuner card installed in a desktop Personal computer, PC running Windows with the InterCast Viewer software. The software would receive data representing HTML pages via the VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval) of a television channel's video, while displaying in a window in the InterCast software the TV channel itself. The HTML data received would then be displayed in another window in the Intercast software. It usually was extra supplemental information relevant to the TV program being viewed, such as extra clues for the viewer during a murder mystery show, or extra news headlines or extended weather forecasts during a newscast. NBC, as well as The Weather Channel (United States), The Weather Channel, CNN and MTV2, M2 (now MTV2), utilized InterCast technology to complement their programming. InterCast, however, fell into disuse, and Intel discontinued support of InterCast a few years later.


WaveTop

Another service in the US similar in delivery and content to teletext was the ''WaveTop'' service, provided and operated by the Wavephore Corporation. It used the same types of InterCast-compatible TV tuner cards, and used an application that ran under Windows, like InterCast. In fact, WaveTop software was also bundled with TV tuner cards that had InterCast software bundled with them as well. However, Wavetop was an independent service from InterCast, and wasn't a complementary service to a television program or channel like the latter. In fact, viewing television with a TV card was not possible while the WaveTop software was running, since the software utilized the TV tuner card as a full-time data receiver. WaveTop provided content from several different providers in the form of HTML pages displayed in the WaveTop software, such as news articles from the New York Times, weather information provided by The Weather Channel (United States), The Weather Channel, and sports from ESPN. It also delivered short video clips, usually commercials, that could be viewed in the software as well. When it was in operation, WaveTop's data was delivered on the VBI of local public TV stations Network affiliate, affiliated with PBS through their PBS National Datacast division, that the WaveTop software tuned the TV card to in order to receive the service.


Guide+

Yet another service in the U.S. that relied on data delivery via the VBI like teletext, was the ''Guide+'' (''Guide Plus'', also referred to as ''GuidePlus+'' as well) service provided and developed by Gemstar. There were several models of television sets made throughout the 90s by Thomson SA, Thomson Consumer Electronics under the RCA and General Electric brands that had built-in Guide+ decoders. Guide+ was an on-screen interactive program guide that provided current TV schedule listings, as well as other information like news headlines. Some Guide+ equipped sets from RCA even had an Infrared, IR-emitting sensor that could be plugged into the back of the TV, to control a VCR to record programs which could be selected from the on-screen Guide+ listings. In some ways, this was very similar to the Video Programming by Teletext, Video Programming by Teletext (VPT), Video Program System (VPS), and Programme Delivery Control (PDC) features of British/European teletext. Guide+ was a free service, supported by advertisements displayed on-screen in the Guide+ menu and listing screens, not unlike banner ads displayed on web pages. Guide+ was delivered over the VBI of select local American TV stations. Guide+ was discontinued by Gemstar in June 2004, and soon afterwards, Thomson SA, Thomson dropped the Guide+ features from all RCA and GE television sets made afterward. However, Guide+ in the United States has now been replaced by Gemstar with a similar service (delivered in the same fashion via VBI like Guide+), called ''TV Guide On Screen''. A small number of televisions, DVD recorders, and digital video recorders are now being released with ''TV Guide On Screen'' capabilities. The Guide+ name & service is still used in Europe by Gemstar. (The same service is known in Japan as G-Guide).


Star Sight

Similar to Guide+ was ''Star Sight'',http://www.starsight.com with its decoders built into TVs manufactured by Zenith, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Magnavox, and others. This was an electronic program guide service similar to Guide+, but was a service that relied on monthly subscription fees paid by the user, not from revenue gathered from on-screen advertisements like Guide+. Star Sight discontinued operations on 21 July 2003, due to a lack of subscribers to the service. Star Sight's data was also delivered on the VBI of local PBS stations through the PBS National Datacast division, much like how WaveTop was delivered as mentioned previously in this article.


International


World System Teletext

''World System Teletext'' (or ''WST'') is the name of a standard for teletext throughout Europe today. Almost all television sets sold in Europe since the early ’80s have built-in WST-standard teletext decoders as a feature. It originally stems from the UK standards developed by the BBC (Ceefax) and the UK Independent Broadcasting Authority (ORACLE) in 1974 for teletext transmission, extended in 1976 as the ''Broadcast Teletext Specification''. With some tweaks to allow for alternative national character sets, and adaptations to the NTSC 525-line system as necessary, this was then promoted internationally as "World System Teletext". It was accepted by ITU-R, CCIR in 1986 as ''CCIR Teletext System B'', one of four recognised standards for teletext worldwide. WST was also used for a short time in the US, with services provided throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s by several regional American TV networks (such as the University of Wisconsin–Madison's ''Infotext'' service in the mid-1980s, which was carried on several TV stations across Wisconsin, and Agtext, provided by Kentucky Educational Television and carried on KET's stations, both services providing agriculturally oriented information) and major-market U.S. TV stations (such as ''Metrotext'', which was formerly carried on station KTTV in Los Angeles, and ''KeyFax'', formerly on WFLD in Chicago). Perhaps the most prominent of American teletext providers was the ''Electra (teletext), Electra'' teletext service, using WST, which was broadcast starting in the early 1980s on the vertical blanking interval (Vertical blanking interval, VBI) of the American cable channel TBS Superstation, WTBS. Electra was owned and operated by Taft Broadcasting and Satellite Syndicated Systems (SSS). Electra ran up until 1993, when it was shut down due to Zenith Electronics, Zenith, the prominent (and only) American TV manufacturer at the time offering teletext features in their sets decided to discontinue such features, as well as a lack of funding and lagging interest in teletext by the American consumer. Zenith Electronics Corporation, Zenith manufactured models of television sets in the US in the 1980s, most notably their ''Digital System 3'' line, that had built-in WST teletext decoders as a feature, much like most British/European TV sets. Teletext services in the US like Electra (teletext), Electra could be received with one of these sets, but these were mostly more expensive higher-end sets offered by Zenith, possibly causing Electra (and American teletext in general) to never catch on with the public. Australian company Dick Smith Electronics (DSE) also offered through their US distributors a set-top WST teletext decoder kit. The kit used as its core the same teletext Code, decoding module (manufactured by UK electronics company Mullard) installed in most British TV sets, with additional circuitry to adapt it for American NTSC video, and to utilize it in a separate set-top box. A significant reason for the demise of American teletext was when Zenith introduced built-in closed captioning decoders in TVs in the early '90s, as mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, FCC. It was not practical for Zenith to re-design their TV chassis models that previously had teletext decoder support to have both teletext and closed captioning support. So Zenith decided to drop the teletext features, therefore ending teletext service in the US in the early 1990s, considering Zenith was the only major manufacturer of teletext-equipped sets in the United States.


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