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7 unusual facts about Teletext


Barbara Knox

In 1989 she won the Oracle Teletext Best Actress award for her part in the Alan Bradley storyline.

David Chipp

After retirement from the PA from Chipp took up a number of part-time positions including an independent director of The Observer, a board member of TV-am and Teletext.

Israel Peleg

As the Director of the Government Press Office (1984–1988) he introduced the Teletext system in Israel.

Natascha Engel

After returning to Britain to work as a Teletext subtitler, Engel joined the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union.

Radio Cracker

In 1992, there was also a national sustaining service broadcast via a sub-carrier on an Astra satellite, thanks to a deal with BSkyB who also provided Teletext pages to allow the Harrow team to communicate with the rest of the network.

Sing Song

The band were first championed in the UK by Planet Sound on Teletext, who gave Sing Song a 9/10 rating in the summer of 2006.

Zvezdan Martič

He was a member of the OLS (On line service group) at EBU (European Broadcasting Union), where he was also a member of the Benchmarking and Teletext groups.


Freenex

Through the automotive navigation system technology display position DVD and DMB components and systems are produced, television; navigated teletext; and digital maps.

Norpak

Norpak's products, now part of and complementary to the Ross Video line, include equipment for embedding data in a television or video signal such as for closed captioning, XDS, V-chip data, non-teletext NABTS data for closed-circuit data transmission, and other data protocols for VBI transmission.

Startext

Programme Delivery Control – The coded teletext delivery programme called PDC/StarText.

Super 5

The information may also be obtained from one of Maltco Lotteries' points of sale; and also by Vodafone's SMS Flash, Go Mobile's IOD, Go Plus' Tellme service, and TVM's teletext.

Taft Broadcasting

It also sells WKRC radio to Jacor Communications and shuts down Electra, a teletext service operated as a joint venture between Taft, Zenith, and Turner Broadcasting's WTBS (now WPCH-TV) in Atlanta.

Vertical blanking interval

In analog television systems the vertical blanking interval can be used for datacasting (to carry digital data), since nothing sent during the VBI is displayed on the screen; various test signals, time codes, closed captioning, teletext, CGMS-A copy-protection indicators, and various data encoded by the XDS protocol (e.g., the content ratings for V-chip use) and other digital data can be sent during this time period.

World System Teletext

WST is used for all teletext services in Europe & Scandinavia, including Ceefax from the BBC and services from Teletext on ITV in the United Kingdom, ZDFtext from ZDF and ARDText from ARD in Germany, and Tekst-TV from NRK in Norway, among many other teletext services offered by other television networks throughout the European continent.


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