Teletext systems systems existed, but by the end of the decade they converged, with the creation of the World System Teletext (WST). WST remained in use for analogue broadcasts until 2012. The first test transmissions were made by the BBC in 1972–74, with the name "Ceefax" ("see facts"). The Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974 with thirty pages of information. Due to the adoption of a common teletext standard (WST), the Ceefax system ceased in 1976. The name was retained for the service itself, that continued after that year using the WST standard. "ORACLE" was first broadcast on the ITV
Electra (teletext) operation. A few other services were offered by some large-market TV stations in the US throughout the 1980s, such as "Metrotext" from KTTV in Los Angeles and "KeyFax" from WFLD in Chicago. Electra also carried another teletext service on its higher-numbered pages, a service called "Tempo". Tempo mainly carried sports (and other miscellaneous) information on its pages. At the time of Electra's closing in 1993, it was the only existing teletext service in the USA. Electra (teletext) Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from the early 1980s up until 1993, when it was