Tag Archives: teletext

Fireplace by Exocet, 2023. Made for that year’s Teletext Advent Calendar that was broadcasted in Germany, Austria and Finland.

I was looking for teletext in some 250 TV-channels in a Romanian hotel and I found Italian, Romanian and German teletext. The most well-made graphics was the German xxx-stuff…

Visited Romania recently, so here’s documentation that TV Romania and Antena are still broadcasting teletext, unfortunately without much good graphics.

BeeBS is a bulletin board system (BBS) that supports teletext graphics. More correctly, it supports the BBC Micro’s mode 7 graphics mode, which is very similar to the British WST teletext standard. It used to be the only BBS running on a BBC Micro, but it runs on modern hardware nowadays.

The PERCEVAL teletext service at RTBF Liège, Belgium, June 1981. This was part of a trial of the French Antiope standard (used for Minitel), but Belgium later chose the more common WST standard. Full video here.

South Africa’s teletext service, Teledata, which apparently had an effective crime fighting section. Teledata was launched in 1985 and not well updated after 1999. The last weather screen was still there in 2014… Images from a post by Carin Bevan.

Ad campaign by thjnk for the German teletext service ARDText when it celebrated 33 years in 2014. They also made teletexttheworld.com that converted uploaded photos to teletext graphics.

More images in an older post.

Петербургского телетекста (Petersburg teletext) was broadcasted in St Petersburg, Russia 1992-2017.

KOINS, a Korean teletext service on KBS TV was originally launched in January 1990, but was re-launched 18 August, 1990 according to this news segment. A year later, it was announced that the decoder hardware was delayed, so KBS made the service available through computers, according to this news segment.

Also see the Korean MBC teletext.

High quality GIF of capture of high quality VHS-recording of the teletext of Alter TV of Greece. Greets to Aggelos TV idents and promos! \o