Teletext

Teletext is an information retrieval service provided by television broadcast companies. Teletext pages can be viewed on television sets with suitable decoders. They offer a range of text-based information, usually including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules. Subtitle (or closed caption) information is also transmitted in the teletext signal.

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Teletext is widely used across continental Europe and the UK (and was for a short while in the USA), with every major television station having its own teletext service. In some commercial stations the teletext is also used as a publicity channel, advertising products such as travel destinations. Common teletext services include TV schedules, regularly updated current affairs and sport news, simple games (like quizzes) and subtitling for deaf people or in different languages. In Australia, there is one Teletext service which is owned and operated by the Seven Network.

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