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
BBC West Midlands BBC West Midlands BBC Midlands is the BBC English Region producing local television, radio, web and teletext content for Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Worcestershire and northern Gloucestershire. Although the region has been unofficially called BBC West Midlands since BBC East Midlands became a separate region in 1991, it retains the BBC Midlands name and brand, with its history dating from 1927, for public use. The BBC Midlands region carries a number of regional programmes today. The regular schedule consists of the flagship "Midlands Today" news programme, regional news bulletins, the weekly regional magazine programme "Inside Out" and