For one night only, teletext has made a triumphant return to the BBC. Wednesday’s edition of The One Show featured a segment on Ceefax and its successor Teefax, including contributions from teletext legends Mort Smith and Peter Kwan. The 5...
Category - Teletext art
Dan Farrimond
Teletext’s Creative Legacy: new article by WePresent
The artwork of Steve Horsley and Dan Farrimond features in a new article examining how the Internet facilitates teletext as an artistic genre. Written by Craig Oldham for WePresent, the piece details how the format’s technological limitations...
Half a decade of the Museum of Teletext Art
The Museum of Teletext Art will turn 5 years old this summer. Since its launch in August 2014, the teletext-based gallery has broadcast artwork by more than 20 multimedia artists on Finland’s YLE Text. Speaking to ARTE Creative just prior to...
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 full news 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...
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...
