BBC red button Teletext.

[Stan the Bat]

I see the Beeb are going to stop this early next year.

I am annoyed because it is an easy way to see a quick flash of news and sports summaries.

bds.

[snuffy]

On my last TV (it was about 5-6 years old) the red button gave the updated teletext type of pages. But my new TV, the red button gives me web pages with the news.

I used to love Ceefax (and Oracle and 4-Tel) but the next version was never as good to me anyway.

I think I watched Ceefax more than the TV in those pre-internet days !

[eltawater]

It's quicker for me to use my smartphone to load a news app than it is to wait for an ice age to pass whilst navigating the red button text menus....

[Brads67]

I use it every day, more than once.

Am a little pissed that they are binning it tbh.

[Mort7]

I also use it several time each day, as it's a great way to get a summary of the main stories. You can then go on-line for greater detail if you need to. I've been using it, and its predecessors, for decades.

I'm disappointed that the BBC have decided to do this, but I guess they have to support their bloated management structure, unnecessary diversity specialists, and needless foreign trips to report on things which could just as easily be covered from the studio somehow. They really do need to be placed under the scrutiny of the National Audit Office.

Article from the BBC here:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-4971...

[Stan the Bat]

Brads67 said:

I use it every day, more than once.

Am a little pissed that they are binning it tbh.

Exactly , pissed also.

[Stan the Bat]

eltawater said:

It's quicker for me to use my smartphone to load a news app than it is to wait for an ice age to pass whilst navigating the red button text menus....

Must only be your problem, it's very quick for me.

[Honk]

Stan the Bat said:

Brads67 said:

I use it every day, more than once.

Am a little pissed that they are binning it tbh.

Exactly , pissed also.

Me too.

[Mort7]

Closure now suspended.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5129...

[Brads67]

Good. I would have missed it. Hopefully it stays indefinitely.

[baldy1926]

Yep good news i use it most days i just find it easier than the online service for checking news and sport

[Stan the Bat]

Great news.

[Honk]

Stan the Bat said:

Great news.

[ewolg]

Great that its been saved but sorry to hear that Radio 5 Live is going. Does that mean I can't listen to F1 commentary and watch RTL HD now (avoiding Sky....)?

[Eric Mc]

Radio 5 Live going?

Are you sure?

[gareth_r]

Eric Mc said:

Radio 5 Live going?

Are you sure?

Misheard this, perhaps?

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2020/01/morning-reports-t...

BBC Radio 5 Live’s Morning Reports programme is to be axed from the schedule under current proposals. The live show, which airs weekdays from 5am till 5.15am, will be replaced with an extended edition of Wake Up To Money, a BBC spokesperson confirmed to RadioToday....

[Halmyre]

snuffy said:

On my last TV (it was about 5-6 years old) the red button gave the updated teletext type of pages. But my new TV, the red button gives me web pages with the news.

I used to love Ceefax (and Oracle and 4-Tel) but the next version was never as good to me anyway.

I think I watched Ceefax more than the TV in those pre-internet days !

That's because it took so long for each page to scroll round...