A proposal to add teletext graphics characters to the Universal Coded Character Set has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium. A total of 214 characters used by legacy computers, including teletext’s box drawing ‘sixels’, will be...
Author - Dan Farrimond
Dan Farrimond
ClubCall and TEAMTalk: A Teletext History
If the Internet invented clickbait, then ClubCall and its competitors were the masters of phonebait. With increasingly juicy teletext headlines, they lured many a football supporter into their premium rate hotlines relaying pre-recorded news, gossip...
‘Santa Should be Banned’ and other things we learned about Christmas from teletext
Life in the 80s and 90s was hard. If you wanted to know something you’d have to put on clothes and walk to a library, only to find that it was closed for Christmas. Thankfully, knowledge-hungry types with teletext televisions had access to a...
Remembering Teletext Ltd, the ‘world’s largest TV text service’ nine years on
It’s exactly nine years since Teletext Ltd hosted its last edition of analogue teletext. On 14 December 2009, the ‘world’s largest TV text service’ said its final farewells with a selection of stories and art looking back at...
Teletext Artist Spotlight: Little Cat
Tonight on Teletext Artist Spotlight we’ll be highlighting the work of Little Cat, who has recently discovered the vibrant world of teletext art and the Edit-TF editor. Join us on a journey through their experiences of the format as we find...
NONE LEFT – Two new festive postcards from ARD Text
Update 4/12/18 – ARD Text have now distributed their entire print run of these postcards! We’ll let you know if and when more become available. ARD Text have announced two new postcards for the 2018 Christmas period. Following the...
Review: Digitiser The Show Episode 1 – A PINONEERING effort?
I never really understood Digitiser. Finding its overly grotesque characters a bit frightening, I retreated to the comparatively tame Mega-Zine over on page 141. I do wish I had given teletext Digi a chance. In hindsight, it seems like one of those...
Interview: Kathrin Günter – Celebrity Photographer, Occult Investigator and Teletext Artist
Teletextart: Hi Kathrin. Thank you so much for agreeing to answer a few questions for us! I believe your piece ‘Lindsay Lohan’s Mug Shot Cabinet’ is a compelling work of teletext art which fully deserved the prestigious 2013...
