Teletext systems the country being closed captioning, TV Guide On Screen, and Extended Data Services (XDS). A version of the European teletext standard designed to work with the NTSC television standard used in North America was first demonstrated in the US in 1978 by station KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah, premiered a teletext service using Ceefax. They were followed by American television network CBS, which decided to try both the British Ceefax and French Antiope software for preliminary tryouts for a teletext service, using station KMOX (now KMOV) in St. Louis, Missouri as a testing ground. CBS decided on Antiope and
MediaCorp Teletext was initially launched. It was later expanded to Channel News Asia when the channel was launched on 1 March 1999. Teletext Classifieds was shut down on 1 September 2012. On 3 September 2013, MediaCorp announced that the service will be discontinued from 30 September 2013 due to “declining usage”. Teletext was provided on three MediaCorp channels, with each channel specialising in specific types of information. Teletext on Channel 5 specialised in entertainment and lifestyle information, Classifieds on Channel 8 and business information on Channel News Asia. When the service was still online, the Teletext versions of all three channels were