BBC Red Button a spectacular new form of television, by 2008 this had given way to positioning iTV as ‘everyday’. This was due in part to the institutional landscape of television in the UK. BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in September 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms. In the first phase, the service was created using content migrated from the existing analogue teletext service, Ceefax. A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to
BBC Russian Service tried to bring to listeners in Soviet Union information they were deprived of, including works of writers and dissidents who could not publish their work at home, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Jamming finally stopped in the late 1980s, as perestroika took hold. The BBC Russian Service has moved all its operation to the Internet, halting radio broadcasting after 65 years on air. Before the final decision to concentrate on online production the Russian Service radio was available only on AM. The BBC Russian Service partnered with "Bol'shoe Radio" (), an FM broadcaster in Moscow between April and August 2007. Daily