BBC In 1951, in conjunction with Oxford University Press the BBC published "The BBC Hymn Book" which was intended to be used by radio listeners to follow hymns being broadcast. The book was published both with and without music, the music edition being entitled "The BBC Hymn Book with Music". The book contained 542 popular hymns. The BBC provided the world's first teletext service called Ceefax (near-homonymous with "See Facts") on 23 September 1974 until 23 October 2012 on the BBC 1 analogue channel then later on BBC 2. It showed informational pages such as News, Sport and the Weather. on
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