BBC Television Ceefax, the first teletext service, launched on 23 September 1974. This service allowed BBC viewers to view textual information such as the latest news on their television. CEEFAX did not make a full transition to digital television, instead being gradually replaced by the new interactive BBCi service before being fully closed down on 22 October 2012. In March 2003 the BBC announced that from the end of May 2003 (subsequently deferred to 14 July) it intended to transmit all eight of its domestic television channels (including the 15 regional variations of BBC 1) unencrypted from the Astra 2D satellite. This
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