Teletext in Salt Lake City, Utah premiered a teletext service using Ceefax. They were followed by television network CBS, which carried out preliminary tests on both the British Teletext and the rival French Antiope system. One of the most prominent providers was the "Electra" teletext service, using World System Teletext (WST), broadcast from the early 1980s on American cable channel WTBS. 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
Service Information address of the BBC Engineering Information Department. The bulletin would then end with a rundown of the trade test colour films being shown on that particular day. ""And now we are returning to the colour test card and music until "Play School" at eleven o'clock"" would be a familiar closing phrase. "Service Information" bulletins generally lasted an average of two or three minutes but on Wednesday 25 August 1971, the longest "Service Information" bulletin known was aired, which ran for 11 minutes. A Monday to Friday "Tuning Information" bulletin was added to BBC2 in the heyday of colour coming to