Teletext Ltd. on 31 January 2011, with editorial content from the Radio Times instead of Teletext Ltd. In spite of its name, the ""Teletext""-branded service was neither the first nor the only teletext service in the UK. The BBC (one of the original developers of teletext) launched its Ceefax teletext service in 1974, the same year that "Teletext's" predecessor, ORACLE also appeared. Although ORACLE closed at the end of 1992 (when Teletext Ltd outbid it for the franchise), Ceefax continued to run on BBC analogue channels until the cessation of analogue signals in October 2012. FourText, originally called 4-Tel, was first run
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