List of teletext services


is a television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules. Subtitle 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.

Active and defunct teletext services by country

Albania

In fact, almost all TV channels in Denmark have teletext. Some of those services are entirely in Danish, while international channels share their teletext with the other Scandinavian countries.

Finland

The Finnish national public broadcaster Yle has its own Teletext. 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
  • MTV3 Tekstikanava
  • TekstiNelonen
  • Subteksti

    France

In France, where the SECAM 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:
Almost all German TV stations have teletext. Here are some of it:
State-owned RAI launched its Teletext service, called Televideo, in 1984.
  • Televideo

    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 in 1997 .
  • La7Video
  • MTVVideo
  • Mediavideo

    Latvia

  • TV3.lv

    Defunct service

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

    Luxembourg

  • RTL Text

    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.

Worldwide

  • BBCfax
  • CNN text
  • TV5 text

    Australia

  • Austext

    Belarus

  • Beltek ''

    Belgium

  • RTBF-Teletexte
  • VRT-Teletekst

    Bulgaria

  • Televest
  • Evrokom text
  • Nova text ''

    Canada

The CBC ran a teletext service, IRIS, accessible only in 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

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 remained in use for analogue broadcasts until 2012.
ServiceChannelStartEndNotes
5 TextChannel 519972011-
ATR TextAt the Races200?2013-
Anglia TextITV1 Anglia19952004-
Border TextITV1 Border19952004-
Carlton PlusITV1 Carlton19952004The service included the former Central and Westcountry regions from 1999
CeefaxBBC One and BBC Two19732012The world's first Teletext system.
CentextITV Central19951999-
FourText Channel 419822003Known as 4-Tel until 2002
Grampian TextSTV Grampian19952010?-
Granada TextITV1 Granada19952004-
HTV Wales Teletext +ITV1 HTV Wales19952004-
HTV West Teletext +ITV1 HTV West19952004-
LWT 600 PlusITV1 LWT19952004-
MeridianITV1 Meridian19952004-
MTVtextMTV199220??-
Music Box TeletextMusic Box19841987Incorporated into SuperText when Super Channel replaced Music Box.
NickTextNickelodeon2009--
ORACLEITV and Channel 419741992-
RacingUKRacing UK20052016The UK's last Teletext system.
ParlifaxBBC Parliament199620??-
Paramount TextParamount Comedy19952004-
SbectelS4C19822009-
Scot-TextITV1 Scottish TV19952011?-
Sci Fi TextSyfy1995?2000-
Sky Textvarious BSkyB channels198530 October 2013-
SuperTextSuper Channel19871998-
Teletext Ltd.ITV1, Channel 4 and S4C19932009-
Teletext Ltd.Five20022009-
Teletext on 4Channel 420032009-
ToonTextCartoon Network1993??-
Tyne Tees Television ITV1 Tyne Tees19952004-
UTV PlusITV UTV199520??-
Westcountry TextITV Westcountry19951999-
Yorkshire Television TextITV1 Yorkshire Television19952004-