Thanks neil for sharing this. I remember this a school kid back in the early 80’s getting up around 7am & watching this & having breakfast. Not to forget adjusting my old digital watch to match the exact time as ceefax !! Happy days 😊
Thank you so much for this-very nice too. Pages from Ceefax with music was very common at the time, and had replaced Test Cards F or G by this time (I am a member of the Test Card Circle which says that May 1983 was when this occured), up until October 1986 on BBC1 when daytime tv started, and around March 1989 on BBC2. Well done!
Interesting to see the Newsreel pages from the BBC Teletext Information service Ceefax accompanied by music in the gap between lunchtime children's programmes and the afternoon conference session (albeit without an opening page at the beginning or a closing page at the end). My novelisations state that GDPtv presentation inserted the front cover main index and went to the lead news story at the beginning of Ceefax In-Vision transmissions but the same music was playing.
@@brucedanton3669Yes, the daytime Ceefax transmissions continued into 1989 on BBC2, three years after they abruptly stopped on BBC1, leaving just the early morning transmissions on there. This meant that a number of new tapes never received exposure during the daytime, and a handful never even received a full play!
The tape heard here is the middle section of the Mon Bijoux tape, one of two which were specifically compiled with more gentle relaxing material, to reflect the subdued atmosphere brought about by the Falklands War in 1982. The war was soon over, but this tape continued to be used on both BBC1 and BBC2 until mid 1984. The other one, Water Mountain, finished its run on BBC2 in early '84, but continued as a BBC1 only tape until early '85.
I remember waking up as a young kid in the early to mid 2000s and watching Ceefax before the early morning programs would come on. I love how it remained the same for so long without many if any updates to the aesthetics at all! The random smooth jazz also cemented a part of my current musical preferences. Sorta sad it stopped to be honest.
@@mrkipling2201 Channel 4 started doing teletext broadcasts then as well. A pity channel 4 started putting programmes on earlier in the afternoon by late 1984.
Nope, Pete, all the tracks here are from the tape Mon Bijoux (starting at 20 mins in) - Justine ending the second 'section'. Link tracks came in 1985...
I need to get out more lol as I'm reading the news on this Ceefax lol oh help me, oh it is great to see it and read it though reminds me of when my kids were young i use to say to them can't wait till your older and move out in a nice way and now I'm missing the hassle of my children shouting down the stairs dad can I have a glass of water or I'm hungry and yet they should be in bed asleep any excuse to come downstairs, how I miss it as it is to quite round the house now. Thanks, Neil for putting this on and the memories, At now I now know post office engineers went on strike in 1993 because the government wanted to sell BT to private companies in 1993 as they still sell everything today so noat change there then, and look how much BT charges now.
Did teletext sets of the time show the middle number between CEEFAX and the date counter constantly when set on a page (not just when changing pages) liike on the Pages from Ceefax? Was it indicative? What were on pages 700 to 710 at the time
2 years late, I know, but to answer your question, the rotating number remained stationary on a fixed page on a teletext television. It only visibly rotated when selecting a different page number, like the, 'in-view', version but in green instead of white. From memory, I think pages 700-710 were dedicated to engineering information for the television trade, i.e. details of which transmitters were on reduced power and the introduction of new relays, etc. As well as tele-software for the BBC Microcomputer.
Also, I don't know whether the Radio Times at this time was showing this time as Closedown or Pages from Ceefax-I don't have the issues from that time, so I can't be sure though.
Also too, if the Conference here had not been on at the time, Ceefax may well have run up until the start of children's tv-Play School and so on too, as was often the case by then from what I remember.
I would guess that it would have been Closedown, as it was January 1984 that they first started putting Pages from Ceefax listings in the Radio Times then onwards at the time so then too of course.
