Electra (teletext) VBI (WTBS was in turn owned by Turner Broadcasting System, which would purchase the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, and most shows from sister company Ruby-Spears, from Taft successor Great American Broadcasting in 1991; Turner is now part of Time Warner). Electra was America's answer to the British Ceefax or ORACLE systems, providing news headlines, weather, entertainment/lifestyle info, and other information. Electra used the World System Teletext (WST) protocol, the same protocol used by Ceefax and ORACLE, as well as by other teletext services in the rest of the European continent. Electra was one of the very few American teletext services in
Teletext systems as the "Broadcast Teletext Specification". With some tweaks to allow for alternative national character sets, and adaptations to the NTSC 525-line system as necessary, this was then promoted internationally as "World System Teletext". It was accepted by CCIR in 1986 as "CCIR Teletext System B", one of four recognised standards for teletext worldwide. In France, where the SECAM standard is used in television broadcasting, a teletext system was developed in the late 1970s under the name "Antiope". It had a higher data rate and was capable of dynamic page sizes, allowing more sophisticated graphics. It was phased out in favour