Snoopdog Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 For some time, BBC Freeview SD channels have been the only channels carrying teletext - clearly it was on borrowed time. A week or so back, I heard BBC Teletext would end in the new year. Well, it seems like the new year has come early with just some old racing news on Page 660 today. I actually found Page 660 quite handy for results when downstairs. Of course I can use my phone or look at the PC upstairs - but still missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHills Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Wow, cant remember the last time i saw Teletext, its like going back in the dark ages. I remember waiting for the declarations to come through for the next days racing, we never knew what was running the next day until about 4pm, now its 48hr decs!! I used to watch the Teletext screens when the races were off and waited for the screen to change and show who had won, it was very exciting back then. Its funny you were never that bothered on how the horse won just which one won it, now we analyse everything and need to know how each horse performed. It was lovely and all that but I wouldn't want to go back there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoopdog Posted October 31, 2019 Author Share Posted October 31, 2019 21.13 Just checked page 660, and it's back! So we get it for a bit longer. BillyHills 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolemat Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 With Billy Hills on this,i thought that went over 10 years ago but do remember waiting for the results.Some pensive minutes waiting for it to update.Racing Post have replaced it with a ten minute wait for their instant results,some things never really change but thank the lord we no longer have to wait for the like,saying that,the tension did make even the last leg of a placepot an experience hard to replicate now. BillyHills 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 The BBC version was called Ceefax and I was lucky enough to work on the Racing pages for a couple of years when William Hill used to supply the pages. Ceefax itself was stopped a few years ago, but the red button ran a Ceefax like content service and it is that which the BBC are scrapping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnyflyer Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 The good old days when you sat there checking your bets a the blooming ceefax page would flick over showing placepot, csf forecasts sat waiting for it to flick back. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 6 hours ago, Donnyflyer said: The good old days when you sat there checking your bets a the blooming ceefax page would flick over showing placepot, csf forecasts sat waiting for it to flick back. ? ....... if you were desperate or your TV was an old one and didn't get Teletext you could always ring the racing results telephone line or I think Radio 2 had a full Racing Results show at 6.45pm going back to the mid 1980s here ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notanotherdonkey Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 16 hours ago, Trotter said: ....... if you were desperate or your TV was an old one and didn't get Teletext you could always ring the racing results telephone line or I think Radio 2 had a full Racing Results show at 6.45pm going back to the mid 1980s here ! If I am right during the day I think it was half past the hour the results where given then every hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 9 minutes ago, notanotherdonkey said: If I am right during the day I think it was half past the hour the results where given then every hour. On the radio they would give the latest results on the sports bulletins ,........ and then a 15 minute round up with all the day's results at 6.45 I've just checked a random day in 1985 ....... Tuesday 18th June on the Radio Times Listings Archive and it seems that Medium Wave opted out of the John Dunn Show on Radio 2 at 6.45 for 'Sport and Classified Results' Also noticed on that day they had commentary on the Royal Ascot Races during the Gloria Hunniford Show ! notanotherdonkey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notanotherdonkey Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 That is right I got mixed up and yep where after the sports bulletin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate53 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 I can remember watching John Player sunday league cricket on Ceefax. How sad is that! Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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