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BBC to scrap Red Button text information service early 2020!

SoundAsa£
SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
edited September 2019 in Not Sports Related
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!

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  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    Think the only thing I've used it for was to watch a different match when Wimbledon is on. 
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    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
  • I ill miss it too.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843

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

    Image result for big red button


  • 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
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Never looked at it via red button.
    Only when ceefax
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    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
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    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
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    It's 2019 now ffs... Can't believe they've kept this going... What a waste of money.
  • reminds me of the Peter Kay sketch - get on teletext

    Booked it, packed it, fooked off
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,317
    edited September 2019
    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
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    edited September 2019
    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
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    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£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    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.
  • 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£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    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
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    edited September 2019
    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
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    The red button was a scam.
    When I pressed the red button on my remote it turned the telly off.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    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
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    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
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,993
    I never knew it existed.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,735

  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,431
    Not even looked at Ceefax for at least 25 years and was somewhat surprised to learn it was still going at all.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    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
  • My wife says I could never find the red button anyway
  • 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
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    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
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,735
    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
    Pringle Posts: 464
    Page The Oracle 
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    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.