Push-Button Instant Information
Released: October 4th 2024
Six Colours And A Flashing Facility
Seeing Facts
Content Appeal
A Revolution In Communication
Push-Button Instant Information
Three Hundred Million Pages
At The Touch Of A Switch
The World Of Modern Television
It's Much More Than A News Service
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Ceefax transmission in September 1974.
Ceefax was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service. Ceefax was started by the BBC in 1974 and ended, after 38 years of broadcasting, at 23:32:19 BST (11:32 PM BST) on 23 October 2012.
To receive a desired page of text on a teletext-capable receiver, the user entered a three-digit page number on the device. The selected page was displayed on the user's screen as it was transmitted, requiring a wait of several seconds. There were many pages to choose from, and they could be displayed either on a black background or superimposed over the broadcast programme picture. This latter feature made it technically possible for the first time for British broadcasters to transmit subtitles that could be turned on or off by the viewer, rather than as part of the broadcast image.
Written, recorded and produced by Simon Young
Warwick UK
September/October 2024
Remastered by Simon Young, August 2025
FL Studio 2024: Sequencer
Roland TR-8S Drum Machine
Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine
Behringer RD-6 drum machine
Behringer Deepmind 6
Behringer MS-101
Korg Monologue
Novation MiniNova
Behringer Wasp
Audacity
Tracks 6-9
No Rippon mixes. Original mixes (1-5) were originally rejected by Tunecore, my distributor at the time, for streaming services due to the use of Angela Rippon voice samples. Tracks 6-9 have removed dear Angela and been replaced by different samples, more acceptable to Spotify, etc. These replacement samples are still from the era.
Recorded on Zoom R20 Sixteen-Track Digital Recorder.
