Teletext services were of huge significance back in the day. Much more than people credit it. It served its time, and reached a natural end. But I really do enthuse over its importance in providing on demand, up to the minute information. It was groundbreaking and should never be overlooked.
when i was a child, i used to regularly wake up at 4am, sit down on the couch and put this on. i had no idea what the text even meant or what i was watching but something about it felt strangely comforting. then i usually went back to bed
I was up as a child one night with a stomach bug n this music made me feel not sick lol which was perfect but then was sick a bunch of vimto up an hour later.
Finally found this. When i was younger, going on holiday we always got an early flight out at about 10/11am so I used to get up at about 4:30 and this was always on. So many a brilliant holiday was started with this. So a lot of memories are being brought up with this.
i remember sleeping at ny grans and falling asleep with the TV and waking up to ceefax it was actuallg one of the finer points of my childhoof. I actually enjoyed sitting their listening to the music aha then the digital switchover happened... I
Mary this is great. Is there any possibility I could type in the page numbers myself[On my computer] like they do on Germany"s ARD TELETEXT SERVICE? Which is one of the last teletext service"s still being broadcast on Digital T.V. From the New Forest. Thank You and once again GOD BLESS!
We didn't have Teletext in the US and the year I studied in London (1996-1997) I was wondering what was wrong with the Telly when I accidentally activated Ceefax. One of my European flatmates explained everything to me and once I knew what I had I ended up using it and loving it! Back then I had to go to the Marylebone library to use the internet. Funny thing about that is that they had TVs in the library so you could check teletext for reference!
Great Ocean Road, by Grossart/Burns and Williams, from Funtastik CD 1023. T'was a sad weekend but thanks and kudos to Dean Lydiate who kindly presented and co-ordinated the last 3 nights of Ceefax. A top man, a top teletext service that will be dearly missed. And the last ever trade test transmission too!
+TazeTSchnitzel It *can* be carried by digital TV, and many European countries do it. It's just that the UK broadcasting industry decided to kill it off in the UK.
+dunebasher1971 True. Over here in Aussie, I usually get teletext services from community TV services, they usually host a lot of useful features. Weather, News and very basic (Keyfax/Ceefax like) pictures. Until HD channels came along, teletext seems to have faded out. :(
Jensi Oquendo Actually, some digital services do broadcast Teletext info, but I don't think they set it up correctly.. The TV I have (Panasonic Plasma 32", 2008 vintage) claims that TEXT (Teletext) services are available on channels, Nine, Seven, Ten and SBS (CH: 3, 30, 32, 33)
Used to watch this when I was younger. It helped getting me to sleep trying to understand what I was reading and the music. I would always try exploring different pages.
I agree with you paul. In Central Europe they still have Anagloge Teletext on Digitial TV. ARD/ZDF Germany,RAI Italy and ORF Austria.To name but three. A former Disabled UK Carer. GOD BLESS!
The closedown of Ceefax coincided with the Digital Switchover (or as I call it Analogue Switch-off) in the UK which ended on Tuesday, 23rd October, 2012.
I used to suffer with bad insomnia in my teens . I would lie awake all night and this smooth fucking jazz would calm the torment of my soul . Classy as shit
Digital is weak. It's feble transistors unable to handle an EMP from the Sun. there's an approximately 1 in 20 chance that within this decade we will be thrust back into the warm embrace of analog. Stay strong Brothers, the CRT, radio, and analog broadcast will be our saviors. Additionally, Teletext got a raw deal in the states and I hope to use it someday.
Ofcom were the death of it, among others. They forced the audiences that didn't go digital, to go digital, irrespective of how the older generations, loyal fans and newcomers felt. They had no say or choice. "Free Will" is a myth.
Saturday afternoon, the sun close to the horizon, a fog of cigarette smoke and my grandad asleep on the sofa with this endlessly looping on the football news in a silent room.
Yes. I could not watch an hour of the broadcast. At the time in 1991 into 1992 Somewhere In My Heart started an hour of music, then suddenly within the next week in 1992 Winter Sun started an hour of music not realising at the time that both tracks came from same tape. That was in the 1990's I recall. The 1980's and 1970's were far better when both BBC1 and BBC2 both broadcast the test card and Ceefax with music throughout the day.
Those were the days, sitting in the lounge as a child at my parant house at weekends watching BBC Testcard F and pages from Ceefax, Teletext was the state of the art techonolgy back in the 1980's, but since the inception of the internet and Digital, Ceefax has been outcast by the internet and with techonolgy keep changing, i dont understand why the BBC couldnt have use Digital data teletext system via the Red button, itv uses the computer program for nightscreen, so why not a new text system for over night viewing on BBC2.
Teletext and Ceefax in the 90's, just wonderful. Dial-up was just emerging but this was where I got all my news, sports and gaming news from (Digitizer being AMAZING) . I would have all the page numbers memorised. Oh, and not forgetting playing Bamboozle. I'd cheat though and used the reveal button. LOL
A real shame it seems we will never hear test card tapes on BBC1 or BBC2 ever again just because there are no more Ceefax broadcasts. The overnight BBC2 programme previews are a poor replacement, and in fact since the BBC replaced daytime test card and pages from ceefax broadcasts on both channels with all programmes the whole time things have gone all downhill.
Well BBC1 now shows the News or occasionally a Film then the news after it finished for the night. BBC2 no idea most channels show gambling or Teleshopping
Recorded this on VHS. I woke up early to watch it. This may sound childish, but when they played BART and it was the final minute... I was in tears by bye Ceefax!
I used to record Pages From Ceefax on VHS, with a minidisc recorder hooked up to the audio output. Later, I transferred those discs to my PC, then to the cloud. It's also all on my smartphone and tablet now to enjoy.
Oh, those were the days when returning home in the early hours; hazy, drunk or high to, muster-up something edible or just a calming hot cocoa and be amused by the command at your fingertips via the red, green and blue buttons of your remote control. And what wonderful soothing music!
Even though i didn't get to see this in person, this still makes me a bit sad, even in 2023. It's also a bit weird because when i watch other tv channels shut down, i dont get sad or anything, but with this i actually get a bit sad.
Never got to see Ceefax live as I was around 4 years old at the time of its final broadcast so I can't really say that I miss it. It's interesting to look back at it though.
I remember if I woke up randomly in the middle of the night I would be absolutely terrified of the ceefax music as my mum tended to fall asleep with the tv on her bedroom 😂
That was a bit of luck in late 2005. Dean Lydiate and the team were clearing out the old presentation suite when they found a few old Radioplay LP's - including SRP 7722 containing Bart... It was a Ceefax "link" track between tapes in 1985 - 8, and after the find, was used a lot in late 2005/early 2006 too with p152.
Just wondering, was a teletext capable tv (with a VBI decoder) needed to view the last transmission of Ceefax fully, as in users would be able to change the page that they were viewing on their televisions?
This was the decoded page broadcast as an ordinary video signal. As far as I can remember, Analogue BBC2 was already switched off at this point, hence CEEFAX 1 instead of 2. In which case this was on digital, so no interaction.
Oh the memories from the letters page Dear Ceefax. BW from Oxfordshire, ML from Dorset!!! And in true fashion, it's goodnight from you, and it's goodnight from me. Goodnight!
My childhood memories watching this at weekend on the BBC tv Network in the 1980's, love the jazzy music, use to love selecting the pages of Ceefax on my father tv set, Would spend hours on their until the damn tv blow up. Cheap DER TV rental crap, lol RIP Ceefax..
That because Ceefax was simulcast from BBC1 in London, Analogue tv in the UK Had already ceased at this point and was being fed to the Northern Ireland tv transmitters via Satellite from the BBC Broadcasting house in London.
+Sanctimoniously Ceefax went out with a bang and with style. The last song was very appropriate for the end of a pioneering interactive TV service that lasted nearly 40 years. I would have expected nothing less from the BBC.
The BBC could have wheeled a lot more of the classic test card tracks than just Bart in the final few days of BBC2 Ceefax broadcasts. The BBC didn't think for even one moment during all the years that their Test Card and Pages from Ceefax broadcasts and accompanied tapes could ever gain high popularity ever since they first broadcast on TV in 1936. Even back in the day in the 1960's to 1980's they'd preferred showing a boring documentary or a repeat of Songs of Praise or a repeat of Points of View during a weekday afternoon than popping on the Test card or Ceefax.
I agree with you David. I am now a 51 year old disabled carer [Cerebral Palsy] since birth for my late and lovely Mum but back in the day in the late 1970"s to early 1980"s when I was at Langside Disability School in Bournemouth our head mistress Miss Evens a Prime of Miss Jean Broady kind of character would force to watch all of us two B.B.C. Programmes for Schools and Colleges.a week [As they were known then.] When she went away [God Bless her soul] we would sneekly turn up the T.V. and listen to B.B.C. Test Card music including Bart. A perfect choice of music for the last ever Page From Ceefax. Also to think David,on my Pan-European Satellite System bought in 1989 I can still read Digital Text Service from 29 countries around the world including A.R.D/Z.D.F. Germany [2 separate service"s R.A.I. from Italy and N.O.S. From the Netherlands. Why did the B.B.C. stop Teletext? A great sadness in my view. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! A pleasure typing with you David. Please keep in touch. From the New Forest. GOD BLESS you and my Mum. Thank You.
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i miss coming in drunk and putting ceefax on and chilling out to the elevator esque music
Who didn't?
Teletext services were of huge significance back in the day. Much more than people credit it. It served its time, and reached a natural end. But I really do enthuse over its importance in providing on demand, up to the minute information. It was groundbreaking and should never be overlooked.
agreed
@@tairschol6910 Seconded!
when i was a child, i used to regularly wake up at 4am, sit down on the couch and put this on. i had no idea what the text even meant or what i was watching but something about it felt strangely comforting. then i usually went back to bed
Same!
I was up as a child one night with a stomach bug n this music made me feel not sick lol which was perfect but then was sick a bunch of vimto up an hour later.
I used to do exactly the same thing in my 20s when I was tripping
Is Exactly what I use to do lol
If you were lucky you would get a interesting open University programme on lol
Finally found this. When i was younger, going on holiday we always got an early flight out at about 10/11am so I used to get up at about 4:30 and this was always on. So many a brilliant holiday was started with this. So a lot of memories are being brought up with this.
I wasnt the only one then!!
[Tracklists]
01 - Great Ocean Road (Edit) - 0:41
02 - Cloud Surf Sunset - 3:05
03 - Eye Candy - 7:46
04 - Graceful Moves - 10:58
05 - Carpe Diem - 13:10
06 - The Fourth Reason - 19:04
07 - Elcardo - 24:06
08 - Super Dreams - 29:20
09 - Cavo Paradiso - 34:52
10 - Moments in Love - 41:06
11 - Sunlips - 46:50
12 - Hey Rozalinda - 52:36
13 - Mountainscape - 58:59
14 - In and Out - 1:04:20
15 - Bart - 1:09:05
You are a hero
Thank you for making this list!
i remember sleeping at ny grans and falling asleep with the TV and waking up to ceefax it was actuallg one of the finer points of my childhoof. I actually enjoyed sitting their listening to the music aha
then the digital switchover happened... I
Still miss Ceefax
Still miss CEEFAX. Still miss my Mum and Dad. Until we meet again.
Thanks Mary. I will look forward to that. A former disabled carer for my late and lovely Mum. From the New Forest GOD BLESS
WOW! Just like the goldern days. Who is doing this wonderful thing. My late mother would have loved this. Thank You and GOD BLESS
Mary this is great. Is there any possibility I could type in the page numbers myself[On my computer] like they do on Germany"s ARD TELETEXT SERVICE? Which is one of the last teletext service"s still being broadcast on Digital T.V. From the New Forest. Thank You and once again GOD BLESS!
twitter.com/pfceefax?lang=en
I remember in 86 or 87, just after the storm, looking at Ceefax round a friends house, and watching the share prices tumble as the market crashed.
A few months before the end of Ceefax, we lost Minitel in France.
2012 was sadly the end of 1st-gen communications !
a french lady showed it me once . . .she loved it . .
There we go , there's that classic easy listening jazz that haunted our childhood at 2 am
We didn't have Teletext in the US and the year I studied in London (1996-1997) I was wondering what was wrong with the Telly when I accidentally activated Ceefax. One of my European flatmates explained everything to me and once I knew what I had I ended up using it and loving it! Back then I had to go to the Marylebone library to use the internet. Funny thing about that is that they had TVs in the library so you could check teletext for reference!
Teletext did exist in the US but didn’t take off as they couldn’t choose a single standard for it:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teletext_services
Thank you for sharing this moment in history. I miss Ceefax, and Teletext in general. 😔
I remember my mum frantically scrolling through teletext for help when we thought my sister had broke her foot 😂 was all good though!
Wait, could you get medical advice on there?
@@jamesk8075 yeah, it had a basic first aid page if I remember correctly 😅
Great Ocean Road, by Grossart/Burns and Williams, from Funtastik CD 1023. T'was a sad weekend but thanks and kudos to Dean Lydiate who kindly presented and co-ordinated the last 3 nights of Ceefax. A top man, a top teletext service that will be dearly missed. And the last ever trade test transmission too!
Why did they have to stop teletext?? there are thousands of people that would use it this very day every day, so much better than red button txt
Well, they couldn't continue it. Teletext can't be carried by digital television.
+TazeTSchnitzel It *can* be carried by digital TV, and many European countries do it. It's just that the UK broadcasting industry decided to kill it off in the UK.
+dunebasher1971 True. Over here in Aussie, I usually get teletext services from community TV services, they usually host a lot of useful features. Weather, News and very basic (Keyfax/Ceefax like) pictures.
Until HD channels came along, teletext seems to have faded out. :(
TheGamerWithMore HA! YOU WISH. pagesfromceefax.net LAUGHS at that statement.
Jensi Oquendo Actually, some digital services do broadcast Teletext info, but I don't think they set it up correctly..
The TV I have (Panasonic Plasma 32", 2008 vintage) claims that TEXT (Teletext) services are available on channels,
Nine, Seven, Ten and SBS (CH: 3, 30, 32, 33)
The bbc really need to bring it back digitally!.
Used to watch this when I was younger. It helped getting me to sleep trying to understand what I was reading and the music. I would always try exploring different pages.
Every night I play a Ceefax video on RUclips and with the help of ceefax music I fall asleep
Bart by Ruby is the closing track played over during the last in-vision sequence from the BBC teletext information service Ceefax.
Love your description. The best one I have seen on RUclips so far😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀👍👍👍👍
This shutdown aired the day after my 4th birthday, R.I.P. Ceefax
The last song gave me nostalgia
Nice that they ended everything with ruby's Bart though- an iconic 70s BBC tune.
I agree!
The track Summer High from the BBC1 tape played on it too.
That bit about disabled people's lives being worse after the move from DLA was pretty much spot on. So many people died :(
I agree with you paul. In Central Europe they still have Anagloge Teletext on Digitial TV. ARD/ZDF Germany,RAI Italy and ORF Austria.To name but three. A former Disabled UK Carer. GOD BLESS!
Thank you for uploading this!
I absolutely love the music in this video!
I find these old Ceefax and Test Cards so relaxing. Thanks.
I remember coming home drunk and passing out on the couch then waking up in the early hours with this on. Happy days.😁
Can't believe it's been almost 8 years since ceefax has gone.
Brings back the nights when I used to record the ceefax music on minidisc. Now it's all on my smartphone.
Dear Ceefax,
We miss you.
Much love,
From, Britain.
😭😭😭😭 yup we all miss you.
#FlyHighCeefax
The closedown of Ceefax coincided with the Digital Switchover (or as I call it Analogue Switch-off) in the UK which ended on Tuesday, 23rd October, 2012.
People liked Ceefax and Teletext because it was instant and simple.
That was never replaced.
The internet is faster. Ceefax is slow if you didn't happen to have the page cached on your television set.
@@tomoldbury2943 The internet is better but there was something very convenient about ceefax/teletext that a lot of us miss 😢
jusus this brings back memory's.. just like a mini internet lol....
This is still depressing to watch, I remember my father using Ceefax to check the weather and news reports. They were good times.
Playing this while on the restored Ceefax. Brings back good memories.
I used to suffer with bad insomnia in my teens . I would lie awake all night and this smooth fucking jazz would calm the torment of my soul . Classy as shit
10 years already gone by......
Can't believe it was still going in 2012!
Why not? Many people used to for quick information.
@@underneonloneliness2 I think it can be called many things but quick isn't one of them. Still love it though lol
Goodbye to Ceefax forever I am afraid-but thank you and well done for this all the same!
Well done!
Ceefax will return stronger than ever, you mark my words. This "internet" thing is just a passing fad ;)
Retro-techie reporting in, and I commend your statement to the comments section.
Teefax is here now.
@@germ3137 that isn't the new T800fax is it????
@@germ3137 ok..my bad.. just seen another video about Teefax xD ..they're like Frankenstein, they've created a monster!!!
Digital is weak. It's feble transistors unable to handle an EMP from the Sun. there's an approximately 1 in 20 chance that within this decade we will be thrust back into the warm embrace of analog.
Stay strong Brothers, the CRT, radio, and analog broadcast will be our saviors.
Additionally, Teletext got a raw deal in the states and I hope to use it someday.
We love teletext! The internet of our generation! It was awesome, perfect!
Ceefax & oracle were part of television history for us as school kids in the 70’s & 80’s 😊
The Internet and mobile phones was the death of Ceefax
BBC Red Button is the death of Ceefax
Actually, the digital switchover was the death of Ceefax. ;)
Ironically, the internet is Ceefax's gateway to eternal life.
pagesfromceefax.net
but that site is also dead. I used to enjoy ceefax on that site :(
Ofcom were the death of it, among others. They forced the audiences that didn't go digital, to go digital, irrespective of how the older generations, loyal fans and newcomers felt. They had no say or choice. "Free Will" is a myth.
who's here because of the man spends years to make his own ceefax. simply because he misses it :)
Yep
R.I.P. Bamboozle.
Wish they bring it back miss it so😢😭
Will upload the whole album -in my garage somewhere.
Actually cried watching it live and am crying now.
We need to form a support group...
Saturday afternoon, the sun close to the horizon, a fog of cigarette smoke and my grandad asleep on the sofa with this endlessly looping on the football news in a silent room.
I'm not crying you are 😭😭😭
10 Years Ago
I miss Teletext, remember as a kid watching on BB2 early in the morning before school. Loved the relaxing music (:
Yes. I could not watch an hour of the broadcast. At the time in 1991 into 1992 Somewhere In My Heart started an hour of music, then suddenly within the next week in 1992 Winter Sun started an hour of music not realising at the time that both tracks came from same tape.
That was in the 1990's I recall. The 1980's and 1970's were far better when both BBC1 and BBC2 both broadcast the test card and Ceefax with music throughout the day.
You are of course so right there then too for sure as well may i say
@dvidclapperton
I used to love the music as well. If i woke up I'd read the pages as they came along and loved the music
I loved the music they used.
Me too
1:09:05 Ruby Bart
Pages From Ceefax Starting At 4:45am. BBC Two Signs Off At Ridiculously Late Times Nowadays.
Those were the days, sitting in the lounge as a child at my parant house at weekends watching BBC Testcard F and pages from Ceefax, Teletext was the state of the art techonolgy back in the 1980's, but since the inception of the internet and Digital, Ceefax has been outcast by the internet and with techonolgy keep changing, i dont understand why the BBC couldnt have use Digital data teletext system via the Red button, itv uses the computer program for nightscreen, so why not a new text system for over night viewing on BBC2.
Its still good for subtitles
Teletext and Ceefax in the 90's, just wonderful. Dial-up was just emerging but this was where I got all my news, sports and gaming news from (Digitizer being AMAZING) . I would have all the page numbers memorised. Oh, and not forgetting playing Bamboozle. I'd cheat though and used the reveal button. LOL
I'd forgotten about Digitizer for over 20 years until I read this. Now I remember it being spoken about in the school playground.
A real shame it seems we will never hear test card tapes on BBC1 or BBC2 ever again just because there are no more Ceefax broadcasts.
The overnight BBC2 programme previews are a poor replacement, and in fact since the BBC replaced daytime test card and pages from ceefax broadcasts on both channels with all programmes the whole time things have gone all downhill.
I know right. lol
I'm glad I recorded much of the Ceefax music on VHS and minidisc.
Well BBC1 now shows the News or occasionally a Film then the news after it finished for the night. BBC2 no idea most channels show gambling or Teleshopping
Its been 10 years since Ceefax ended
Recorded this on VHS. I woke up early to watch it. This may sound childish, but when they played BART and it was the final minute... I was in tears by bye Ceefax!
I can understand why.
I used to record Pages From Ceefax on VHS, with a minidisc recorder hooked up to the audio output. Later, I transferred those discs to my PC, then to the cloud. It's also all on my smartphone and tablet now to enjoy.
Oh, those were the days when returning home in the early hours; hazy, drunk or high to, muster-up something edible or just a calming hot cocoa and be amused by the command at your fingertips via the red, green and blue buttons of your remote control. And what wonderful soothing music!
Even though i didn't get to see this in person, this still makes me a bit sad, even in 2023.
It's also a bit weird because when i watch other tv channels shut down, i dont get sad or anything, but with this i actually get a bit sad.
Never got to see Ceefax live as I was around 4 years old at the time of its final broadcast so I can't really say that I miss it. It's interesting to look back at it though.
I remember if I woke up randomly in the middle of the night I would be absolutely terrified of the ceefax music as my mum tended to fall asleep with the tv on her bedroom 😂
1 year on, still missed
I spent the whole evening just staring at one ceefax page once .Lol my football team was playing it ended up 0-0
That was a bit of luck in late 2005. Dean Lydiate and the team were clearing out the old presentation suite when they found a few old Radioplay LP's - including SRP 7722 containing Bart... It was a Ceefax "link" track between tapes in 1985 - 8, and after the find, was used a lot in late 2005/early 2006 too with p152.
i miss ceefax
Fun fact 22/10/2012 was my 7th birthday
This did look pretty cool tho and I fully understand why people miss it
+Daniel Woodhouse I thinks so... I really wasn't online when my friend was broadcasting this to me. So I didn't really see it.
R.I.P
BBC Pages From Ceefax
1974-2012
I remember one time I turned on the tv, went to bbc 2 and there was good music and text but it took me this long to find out it was called ceefax
It's a shame Ceefax Teletext has expired for 9 years now and no longer in power. I remember my Dad used to use it a lot
Just wondering, was a teletext capable tv (with a VBI decoder) needed to view the last transmission of Ceefax fully, as in users would be able to change the page that they were viewing on their televisions?
This was the decoded page broadcast as an ordinary video signal. As far as I can remember, Analogue BBC2 was already switched off at this point, hence CEEFAX 1 instead of 2. In which case this was on digital, so no interaction.
Rest in peace BBC Ceefax
This music is amazing, though!
I am wistful for something l never got to experience.
888 for subtitles :p
Oh the memories from the letters page Dear Ceefax. BW from Oxfordshire, ML from Dorset!!! And in true fashion, it's goodnight from you, and it's goodnight from me. Goodnight!
Let's continue
Someone should upload that widescreen version of the 70s =2= logo to TV Ark!
My childhood memories watching this at weekend on the BBC tv Network in the 1980's, love the jazzy music, use to love selecting the pages of Ceefax on my father tv set, Would spend hours on their until the damn tv blow up. Cheap DER TV rental crap, lol RIP Ceefax..
u
Feels like the preceder of Smart TV.
R I P CEEFAX
Rip
Ceefax
1974 - 2012
Do you have any episodes of A Kick Up The Eighties?
Has any one else noticed that at 05:20:37am on the Ceefax clock the Ceefax name changes from Ceefax2 to Ceefax1 yet the music is unchanged ?
That because Ceefax was simulcast from BBC1 in London, Analogue tv in the UK Had already ceased at this point and was being fed to the Northern Ireland tv transmitters via Satellite from the BBC Broadcasting house in London.
@@scottpeacock5492 Ahhh. Thanks Scott.
Something about that last song and that final bumper screen really got to me. Just something in my eye, sorry.
Sanctimoniously I'd quite like to know what that last song *is*. Nice guitar work.
+hjalfi the song is called Bart by ruby
+Sanctimoniously Ceefax went out with a bang and with style. The last song was very appropriate for the end of a pioneering interactive TV service that lasted nearly 40 years. I would have expected nothing less from the BBC.
Not so much Bart as the final normal-sequence tune before it with the arpeggiation. I've got something in my eye too.
Do you actually know Ceefax was released the year my Mum was born.
Before the internet, there were this kids 👍
I am so bored at work
Good old Bart.
I assumed no one got the reference
Some did!
Some did. But on a B.B.C. Schools and Colleges video.
The BBC could have wheeled a lot more of the classic test card tracks than just Bart in the final few days of BBC2 Ceefax broadcasts.
The BBC didn't think for even one moment during all the years that their Test Card and Pages from Ceefax broadcasts and accompanied tapes could ever gain high popularity ever since they first broadcast on TV in 1936. Even back in the day in the 1960's to 1980's they'd preferred showing a boring documentary or a repeat of Songs of Praise or a repeat of Points of View during a weekday afternoon than popping on the Test card or Ceefax.
I agree with you David. I am now a 51 year old disabled carer [Cerebral Palsy] since birth for my late and lovely Mum but back in the day in the late 1970"s to early 1980"s when I was at Langside Disability School in Bournemouth our head mistress Miss Evens a Prime of Miss Jean Broady kind of character would force to watch all of us two B.B.C. Programmes for Schools and Colleges.a week [As they were known then.] When she went away [God Bless her soul] we would sneekly turn up the T.V. and listen to B.B.C. Test Card music including Bart. A perfect choice of music for the last ever Page From Ceefax. Also to think David,on my Pan-European Satellite System bought in 1989 I can still read Digital Text Service from 29 countries around the world including A.R.D/Z.D.F. Germany [2 separate service"s R.A.I. from Italy and N.O.S. From the Netherlands. Why did the B.B.C. stop Teletext? A great sadness in my view. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! A pleasure typing with you David. Please keep in touch. From the New Forest. GOD BLESS you and my Mum. Thank You.
its still a thing here in finland
1:12:24 anyone notice that it says Poo 1 in the top left?
We miss the ol' music of BBC Ceefax.
Honestly, I feel a part of BBC Two’s charm died when Ceefax ended.
Back when you only needed 4 channels and tv was good.
It helps if you were actually born then... Some people weren't born until the multi-channel digital age.
Occasionally as a Kid I would be really early so would watch this now I am never up that early. Occasionally a Kids Proggame I like followed CeeFax
What's the music at the start?
Because I like the tune
Pretty sure it's Great Ocean Road... I don't know.