Teletext systems network in the mid-late 1970s. Due to the adoption of a common teletext standard (WST), the ORACLE system ceased in 1976. The name was retained for the service itself, that continued after that year using the WST standard. "World System Teletext" (or "WST") is the name of a standard for teletext throughout Europe today. Almost all television sets sold in Europe since the early ’80s have built-in WST-standard teletext decoders as a feature. It originally stems from the UK standards developed by the BBC (Ceefax) and the UK Independent Broadcasting Authority (ORACLE) in 1974 for teletext transmission, extended in 1976
Teletext Ltd. editorial on ch 986 on Freesat. The GameCentral section continued online on the Teletext website before joining another DMGT website Metro and can now be found at http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/ Despite the withdrawal of news and information content, the service continued to broadcast. On 29 January 2010, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom revoked Teletext's licence to broadcast but as of the service was still on the air. On 27 May 2010, Ofcom imposed a financial penalty of £225,000 on Teletext Limited following the revocation of the public teletext service licence. Ofcom regulations state: "Public service broadcasting licences are offered for a fixed term,