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Former BBC text service
Answer for the clue "Former BBC text service ", 6 letters:
ceefax
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Ceefax was the world's first teletext information service. It was started by the BBC in 1974 and ended at 23:32:19 BST on 23 October 2012, in line with the digital switchover being completed in Northern Ireland . The service then ceased after 38 years of ...
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n. A simple information retrieval service offered by the BBC since 1974, whereby "pages" of information are delivered sequentially to a television set and the viewer can move between them.
Usage examples of ceefax.
Apparently she had had to change her leave date at the last minute to take advantage of a good holiday offer on Ceefax, and as she had been a bit out of sorts lately the practice wanted to let her go, if they possibly could.