Teletext (or "broadcast teletext") is a television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules. Subtitle (or closed captioning) information is also transmitted in the teletext signal, typically on page 888 or 777.
A number of similar teletext services were developed in other countries, some of which attempted to address the limitations of the British-developed system, with its simple graphics and fixed page sizes.
This is an incomplete list of teletext services available on different television channels around the w
P3tv teletext
R9 text
RTV text
Tirol TV
polsat 2 teletext
Countries with functioning teletext services
POLISH
Top-Channel
TVSH
Mediaset
RAI
SAT.1
Austria
ORF Text (ORF1, ORF2, ORF3) ORF Sport Text (ORF Sport Plus) TW1 Text (TW1) 3satText (3sat) ATV TEXT (ATV) Puls 4 Text (Puls 4) Sat1 Österreich Text (Sat 1 Österreich) ProSieben Text Austria (Pro 7 Österreich) kabel eins text Austria (Kabel 1 Österreich) RTLtext AT (RTL Österreich) RTL II TEXT AT (RTL 2) Austria 9 Text (Austria 9) Tirol TV teletext
Belgium
Available via DVB-T
RTBF-Teletexte (RTBF)
Defunct service
VRT-Teletekst (VRT. Service ended 1 June 2016)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
BHT1 Text (BHT1) - main state level public TV channel in Bosnia and Herzegovina
FTV Text (FTV) - entity level public TV channel
RTRS Text (RTRS) - entity level public TV channel
Croatia
HTV TTXT (Croatian Radiotelevision) Nova Text (Nova TV) RTL Text (RTL Televizija)
Czech Republic
Teletext ČT
Teletext Nova
Prima Teletext
Prima Cool Teletext
Prima Love Teletext
Teletext TV Óčko
Teletext TV Barrandov
Denmark
DR Tekst-TV (Danmarks Radio) TV2 Tekst-TV (TV2 Adopted digital teletext, but abandoned the service in 2019) Viasat Tekst-TV (Viasat)
In fact, almost all TV channels in Denmark have teletext (called tekst-TV). Some of those services are entirely in Danish, while international channels (Discovery Channel, Animal Planet etc.) share their teletext with the other Scandinavian countries.
Finland
The Finnish national public broadcaster Yle has its own Teletext (Yle Teksti-TV). It shows news, sport and programme information round the clock. Theme pages on the weather, traffic, work and leisure. Teksti-TV also has news in English on page 190.
Yle Teksti-TV (Yle) MTV3 Tekstikanava (MTV3) TekstiNelonen (Nelonen) (subtitling only) Subteksti (Sub) (defunct)
France
In France, where the SECAM standard is used in television broadcasting, a teletext system was developed in the late 1970s under the name Antiope. It had a higher data rate and was capable of dynamic page sizes, allowing more sophisticated graphics. It was phased out in favour of standard teletext in 1991.
A lot of French channels have teletext left only for subtitling. Here some with a complete text:
TF1
France 2
France 3
Canal+ (subtitles only) France 5 Arte M6 (subtitles only)
Germany
Almost all German TV stations have teletext. Here is a small selection: ARD (and all regional broadcasters) ZDF: (ZDF, ZDFneo, ZDFinfo) ARD & ZDF: KiKa, Phoenix RTL Deutschland: (RTL, VOX, RTL II, ... and others) ProSiebenSat.1: (ProSieben, Sat.1, kabel eins, ... and others) Tele 5 Sport1 Welt ... and others
Greece
NERIT (State television channels N1, N Sports) Mediatext (Mega Channel, Star Channel, Sports TV, Extra3) Newsphone Hellas (ANT1, Alpha TV, Alter Channel, MAD TV) Metromedia Group (Vergina, Nickelodeon, Rise, Smile, Nickelodeon Plus, Super TV Halkidiki, Ionian Channel, Atlas TV)
Hungary
m1Text (m1) m2Text (m2) TV2 Text (TV2) Klub text (RTL Klub) Viasat 3 (Viasat 3)
Iceland
RÚV textavarp (Icelandic public TV station RÚV) available to view at Textavarp.is
Ireland
RTÉ Aertel (RTÉ One, RTÉ 2, RTÉjr and RTÉ News) Still available in "digital" on Saorview, however it has been announced by RTÉ that it will shut on 12 October 2023
Defunct services
threetext (TV3, 2001 - 201?) Téacs TG4 (TG4) (1999 - 20??)
Italy
State-owned RAI launched its Teletext service, called Televideo, in 1984. Televideo (RAI)