Interviews
In her glittering career, Sara Scott-Rivers worked extensively with both Viewdata and teletext. Following designer-editor roles with Prestel in the 1980s, she joined Teletext...
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#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
Celebrating 45 Years of Yle Text with teletext art (7 October-10 November 2026)
Yle 100 on Yle Text: A Super Teletexthibition (9 September – 31 October 2026)
Valentine’s Day / Day of Friends Exhibition on Yle Teletext (14th-28th February 2026)
Advent Calendars return to Yle Text for 2025 (1 December 2025 – 6 January 2026)
World Events, TeleNFT (September-October 2025)
- 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
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- Teletext R Podcast
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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
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- 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
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Interviews
If you had to make a list of memorable teletext sections, you’d probably have Digitiser somewhere in your top 5. Today’s guest is, aside...
Interviews
Welcome back to the Teletext Artist Spotlight. Today’s willing subject is Sarah B, who has recently been discovering teletext as an artform. She is...
Teletext art
The winners have been announced! In a lavish live results show on Friday night, the results of the illustrious Blockdown Party Art Contest Prize...
Interviews
Digital artist Jarkko Räsänen is a member of the FixC artists co-operative, who have been organising teletext festivals since 2012. Their most recent teletext...
Announcements
VOTING CLOSED! Until 8PM BST on Saturday 9th May 2020, you can cast your votes for the Blockdown Party art competition by clicking the...
Interviews
On Saturday 25th April 2020, teletexters from around the universe gathered in the Teletext Discord to make beautiful data together. Dozens of artists collaborated...
Announcements
In place of the postponed Block Party, we invite you to join the inaugural BLOCKDOWN Party! Saturday 25th April 2020, 10AM-???* (BST) *We intend...
Teletextr Podcast
In these testing times, teletext is needed more than ever. Could this signal a revival for the BBC Red Button? Also in this episode,...
Announcements
The physical Block Party might have been put on hold, but its teletext art competition lives on! David at Arbitrary Files is hosting this...
Teletextr Podcast
In honour of All Fools’ Day Version 20.20, we look back at some popular legends surrounding teletext in this myth-busting special. Separating fact from...
Teletextr Podcast
Teefax, the community teletext service created by Peter Kwan, has recently been signal boosted by numerous news outlets. Most significantly, its appearance on The...
Calls For Entries
On 17 November 2026, the exclusively-online service HBN will celebrate its first anniversary with a mini-festival of teletext art. Community member SoyuzRocket AKA Adam...
Calls For Entries
Yle Text, those ever-present legends of the modern teletext art scene, have once again agreed to host our art over the festive period. It’s...
Announcements
Sé-bastieeeen!* Angine de Poitrine, those limber polka-dotted math-surf-jazz rock wizards from an unpronounceable solar system, have recently crash landed on Planet Teletext. Documenting this...
Announcements
This month, Finland’s fabled Yle Text welcome more teletext art for the occasion of their 45th birthday! ASCII-style lettering, traditional Hungarian patterns, optical illusions...
Announcements
On 9 September 2026, Yleisradio Oy (AKA the Finnish Broadcasting Company) will celebrate its 100th anniversary with the scintillating sixels and astounding alphanumerics of...
Announcements
Yle Text are presently screening a selection of artworks from the innovative First Excursions in Teletext, Norway’s pioneering academic research into the medium as...
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