BBC to scrap Red Button text information service early 2020!

SoundAsa£

Bugger.......I am a regular user of this service since way back when it was called Teletext and latterly Ceefax.
Really going to miss this as it’s my ‘go to’ way of finding out all sorts of stuff, it’s second nature to me......I have used it constantly for the last 45 years.
Bloody outrageous if you ask me!

Talal

Think the only thing I've used it for was to watch a different match when Wimbledon is on. 

clive

Talal said:

Think the only thing I've used it for was to watch a different match when Wimbledon is on. 

That service will still continue,it is' teletext'option that is being scrapped.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49715314

HantsAddick

I ill miss it too.

bobmunro

I won't miss it - bloody ugly thing sat next to the TV.

stockportaddick

For donkeys years I get home, make a brew then pop teletext on. 302 for the footy. 101 for the news then 160 for local news. 301 for the general sport then 401 for the weather. That ritual takes the same time as drinking my brew, gutted it's going.

MrOneLung

Never looked at it via red button.
Only when ceefax

Lincsaddick

In an era when we are bombarded with 'news' every half hour around the clock (every 1/4 hour on some commercial stations), teletext has been deemed redundant. Another episode of freedom of choice falling victim to BBC cuts. Surely a reduction in Gazza Lickmelater's extortionate salary would have part enabled this service to continue ?

McBobbin

Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle

Dazzler21

It's 2019 now ffs... Can't believe they've kept this going... What a waste of money.

snowinberlin

reminds me of the Peter Kay sketch - get on teletext

Booked it, packed it, fooked off

ForeverAddickted

McBobbin said:

Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle

Its how I learnt we'd won promotion at Blackburn in 2000

No internet at my Nan's or SKY (for Soccer Saturday) so had to watch the three pages of scores to scroll by for 90mins

Junior Bamboozle was / still is more my level though

paulie8290

People talking about watching the 3 pages of scores for 2 hours, did no one press(i cant remember what page number it was now it was years ago) but you could still watch what was on tv and everytime there was a goal it flashed up, like a smaller version of what they now call Vidiprinter

paulie8290

Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture 

All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha

SoundAsa£

Dazzler21 said:

It's 2019 now ffs... Can't believe they've kept this going... What a waste of money.

Dazzler......that’s an extremely selfish and self opinionated viewpoint young fella.
It’s a reliable time and tested media tool to this day, very easy to access and use.
Just because you don’t use it there’s no need to be so dismissive of those of us who have relied on it for decades........I love it and will be severely inconvenienced by its demise.

North Lower Neil

paulie8290 said:

Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture 

All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha

I went straight from a new year's party to the Valley Cafe for breakfast, worked the turnstiles then watched that game.

I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night. 

SoundAsa£

North Lower Neil said:

paulie8290 said:

Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture 

All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha

I went straight from a new year's party to the Valley Cafe for breakfast, worked the turnstiles then watched that game.

I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night. 

Are you Robert Lee?

North Lower Neil

SoundAsa£ said:

North Lower Neil said:

paulie8290 said:

Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture 

All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha

I went straight from a new year's party to the Valley Cafe for breakfast, worked the turnstiles then watched that game.

I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night. 

Are you Robert Lee?

Sadly the rest of my working life hasn't gone the same way as his! 

smudge7946

The red button was a scam.
When I pressed the red button on my remote it turned the telly off.

Stig

McBobbin said:

Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle

Bamber Boozler is fondly remembered in our house for his close resemblance to my wife's dad and to Walter Matthau.

Chizz

North Lower Neil said:

paulie8290 said:

Just went on Google to try and find the page number and saw a news story with this picture 

All 5 goalscorers ex Charlton haha

I went straight from a new year's party to the Valley Cafe for breakfast, worked the turnstiles then watched that game.

I was frankly a mess by about 6 o'clock that night. 

The full report of your state was on CEEFAX p 303 2/2

Covered End

I never knew it existed.

Bedsaddick

Rizzo

Not even looked at Ceefax for at least 25 years and was somewhat surprised to learn it was still going at all.

DaveMehmet

paulie8290 said:

People talking about watching the 3 pages of scores for 2 hours, did no one press(i cant remember what page number it was now it was years ago) but you could still watch what was on tv and everytime there was a goal it flashed up, like a smaller version of what they now call Vidiprinter

Update

happyvalley

My wife says I could never find the red button anyway

North Lower Neil

Stig said:

McBobbin said:

Anyone else used to spend 2 hours on a Saturday watching the ceefax scroll through to see if there was a score? Internet rather makes it redundant, though I do miss playing Bamboozle

Bamber Boozler is fondly remembered in our house for his close resemblance to my wife's dad and to Walter Matthau.

He always reminded me of Mr Cunningham from Happy Days:

cabbles

Gutted I won't be able to read about a British athlete winning bronze in the Sri Lankan turtle throwing competition or whatever else it is the bbc classify as sports coverage these days

Bedsaddick

cabbles said:

Gutted I won't be able to read about a British athlete winning bronze in the Sri Lankan turtle throwing competition or whatever else it is the bbc classify as sports coverage these days

But they are only focusing on Women’s Turtle throwing because it’s the BBC.

Pringle

Page The Oracle 

cafc_harry

Funny how people still rely on it with all the technology we have available to us, my grandad recently got his first smartphone and internet installed at his house but would still go to red button to check the results at the horses.