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The Museum of Teletext Art (MUTA) was launched by FixC in 2014 alongside the third International Teletext Art Festival, with the aim to “broadcast,...
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- Past Block Parties
- Teletext50
#Teletext50 art exhibition on Yle Text in Finland (7 October – 11 November 2024)
Teletext 50th Anniversary Meetup, Cambridge, 21-22 September 2024
Teletext @50: The Stories – Video Documentary (2024)
Teletext50: a new audio documentary starring those who made it a cultural phenomenon [PRESS RELEASE]
Call for entries: 50 Years of Teletext Art! [CLOSED]
- Cambridge 2022
- Blockdown 2020
- Wigan 2018
- Cambridge 2017
- Cambridge 2016
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Digitiser Panel with Paul Rose, Tim Moore and Violet Berlin
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Guests Panel with Violet Berlin and Tim Moore
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Artists Panel with Paul Rose and Steve Horsley
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Experts Panel with Mort Smith and Peter Kwan
[Video] Digifest: Quiz Me Do!
- Teletext50
- Group Exhibitions
- Calls For Entries
CALL FOR ENTRIES: HBN Text’s 1st Birthday (Deadline: 10 November 2026)
CALL FOR ENTRIES – Teletext Advent Calendar on Yle Text (December 2026)
[CLOSED] CALL FOR ENTRIES: Valentine’s Day 2026 on Yle Teksti-TV! Love Letters from Your (Teletext) Heart
[CLOSED] CALL FOR ENTRIES – 100 Years of Yle & Yle Teletext’s 45th Anniversary (September & October 2026)
[CLOSED] CALL FOR ENTRIES – 2025 Teletext Advent Calendar on Yle Text
- Past Block Parties
- Podcast
- Teletext R Podcast
- Episodes
Teletext R Podcast Summer Special! Teletext Doomscrolling 1976 vs. 2026 & Count ‘Ceefax’ Binface (July 2026)
[Audio] Teletext People: Tim, Twitter’s Ceefaux
BHNL Podcast: Teletextlore
Teletext R Podcast, 31st December 2022 – Russty Russ & the Demise of ORACLE (2015 Rerun)
The Max Headroom Incident: Television Sofa Club, 15th November 2022
- Episodes
- Teletext R Podcast
- Features
- Teletext Artist Spotlight
Teletext Artist Spotlight: JustADude
Teletext R Podcast, 31 August 2020 – Sara Scott-Rivers of Teletext Ltd, Datasolve, ITM, GWV and Videotron
Artist Spotlight: Sarah Burgess (Make Today Colourful)
Teletext Artist Spotlight: Little Cat
Interview: Dragan Espenschied, Digital Conservationist & Teletext Art Prize Winner
- Editorial
- Teletext Artist Spotlight
Group Exhibitions
By 2014, the tried and trusty Cebra Text editor used to facilitate teletext events was becoming incompatible with modern versions of Windows. In response,...
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Teletext has been popular at demoparties for over a decade, and with the invention of the BBC Micro introducing teletext software to the masses,...
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The RITE (Rolling In-vision Teletext Engine) Box was developed by Ray Goff, who had previously designed Context, the foundational system used to run and...
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Teletext Ltd superseded ORACLE at the end of 1992, taking charge of the services on Channels 3 and 4 at the very start of...
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Broadcast in 1990, Hands Up! was a series of educational TV programmes commissioned by Channel 4 made entirely with animated teletext graphics. It was...
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The Fantastic Adventures of 4-T followed the escapades of a cyan canine character that had its basis in a teletext dog Ian Irving had...
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In 1979, four years before teletext first went live in Norway, Arild Boman of the Institute for Social Research led a group of researchers...
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Styles Despite its restrictions, teletext is capable of facilitating a variety of styles. It may carry a certain aesthetic, but as a medium it...
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A single teletext page, including the header row, comprises 40 columns of 24 rows for a total of 960 characters. This grid can be...
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Mega-Zine was a teletext page showcasing viewer-submitted content that began on 3rd January 1993. It debuted on Teletext Ltd’s Channel 3 (ITV) analogue service...