Teletext Ltd. on 31 January 2011, with editorial content from the Radio Times instead of Teletext Ltd. In spite of its name, the ""Teletext""-branded service was neither the first nor the only teletext service in the UK. The BBC (one of the original developers of teletext) launched its Ceefax teletext service in 1974, the same year that "Teletext's" predecessor, ORACLE also appeared. Although ORACLE closed at the end of 1992 (when Teletext Ltd outbid it for the franchise), Ceefax continued to run on BBC analogue channels until the cessation of analogue signals in October 2012. FourText, originally called 4-Tel, was first run
BBC West Midlands BBC West Midlands BBC Midlands is the BBC English Region producing local television, radio, web and teletext content for Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Worcestershire and northern Gloucestershire. Although the region has been unofficially called BBC West Midlands since BBC East Midlands became a separate region in 1991, it retains the BBC Midlands name and brand, with its history dating from 1927, for public use. The BBC Midlands region carries a number of regional programmes today. The regular schedule consists of the flagship "Midlands Today" news programme, regional news bulletins, the weekly regional magazine programme "Inside Out" and