For the album by Fridge Ceefax album Infobox television show name Ceefax image File BBC Ceefax logo.svg 200px caption Pages from Ceefax title card show name 2 genre format Teletext country United Kingdom ... website website title production website Ceefax phonetic for See Facts is the BBC s teletext information ... from Ceefax , while the actual interactive service will run until 24 October 2012, in line ... name Test Cards and Ceefax http www.bbc.co.uk archive testcards ceefax.shtml?chapter 9 Test Cards and Ceefax BBC Archive ref History Image Ceefax.png right thumb A BBC Ceefax page from 5 October 2008 ... name of CEEFAX, BBC FAX The system was announced in October 1972 and following test transmissions in 1973 74 the Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974 with thirty pages of information. Developed ... on a single standard, different from both Ceefax and Oracle, which ultimately developed into World ... system formerly used in France. In 1983, Ceefax started to broadcast computer programs, known as telesoftware ... different, higher speed technology to broadcast PC software. The basic technology of Ceefax has remained ... coloured button hyperlinking data, but are able to ignore it. Modern day As of 2011 , the BBC s Ceefax ..., TV Listings and Businesses. The pages are still kept up to date. However, Ceefax is only available in areas where digital switchover has not talen place. The in vision service Pages from Ceefax is still ..., Ceefax pages were often the first location to report a breaking story or headline. In 2002, the BBC stopped broadcasting Ceefax on the digital satellite Sky Digital UK & Ireland Sky Digital service .... The BBC has attempted to reuse the old Ceefax page numbers where possible on the Freeview United Kingdom Freeview and digital satellite BBC Red Button Ceefax replacement services. ref http www.bbc.co.uk ... ref It has been announced that Ceefax will not be replaced when the analogue signal is switched off in October 2012. ref name ReferenceA ref name Test Cards and Ceefax The BBC Red Button service is seen ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Ceefax Type studio Longtype Artist Fridge band Fridge Cover Ceefax album.jpg Border yes Released 10 March 1997 Recorded Genre Post rock Length Label Output Recordings Producer Last album This album Ceefax br 1997 Next album Semaphore album Semaphore br 1998 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1Score Rating 3 5 ref Allmusic class album id r311823 first Tim last DiGravina ref rev2 rev2Score Ceefax is the debut full length album by Fridge band Fridge , released 10 March 1997. The CD digipack case is natural tone paper colour, with clear ink on the front, which is only visible when viewed at certain angles track listings and other liner notes are on the album spine. Track listing EDM 1 09 Helicopter 2 08 Tricity 6 01 More EH4 800 11 00 FDM 0 27 Robots In Disguise 4 29 EDM 2 1 09 Oracle 6 11 EDM3 4 40 Zed Ex Ay Ti Wan 5 24 References Reflist 1990s electronic album stub Category 1997 albums Category Fridge albums ... more details
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Album cover of Ceefax album Ceefax . Used under fair use . Non free album cover Non free media rationale Description Album cover from Fridge band Fridge s Ceefax album Ceefax . Source Derived from a scan of the album cover creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless. Portion Front cover only. No other artwork from the album e.g. back cover, inner liner notes is used. Resolution Is only as much resolution is necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy. Article Ceefax album Purpose Illustrates the appearance of the album and identifies it by recognized features. Replaceability No other image can illustrate the appearance of the album. Any other images would feature the same exact artwork. other information Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the album as part of catalogs and reviews, so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves ... more details
Summary A screenshot of ceefax taken 5 10 08 using the ceefax.tv website Non free media rationale Description Screenshot of Ceefax from 5 10 08 Source screenshot from of ceefax, taking using ceefax.tv website Portion The entire work illustrated is covered by this rationale Resolution small Article Ceefax Purpose Illustrate and identify service Replaceability Not replaceable all derivatives would be subject to the same copyrights other information This image is only being used in Wikipedia articles for informational and educational purposes. The image s inclusion here will not result in financial loss to the copyright holder Licensing Non free television screenshot ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Semaphore Type studio Longtype Artist Fridge band Fridge Cover Semaphore album.jpg Released 16 March 1998 Recorded Genre Alternative rock , post rock , indietronica Length Label Output Recordings Producer Reviews Allmusic Rating 4.5 5 Allmusic class album id r369550 pure url yes link Last album Ceefax album Ceefax br 1997 This album Semaphore br 1998 Next album Eph album Eph br 1999 Semaphore is the second studio album by Fridge band Fridge , released on 16 March 1998. Track listing Cassette 1 23 Furniture Boy 7 09 A Slow 4 13 Motorbus 7 27 Teletexed 4 06 Chroma 6 08 Lo Fat Diet 6 37 Swerve And Spin 4 07 Curdle 4 53 Lign 0 18 Stamper 4 56 There Is No Try 1 19 sic Mich eal hide y Knight 8 32 1990s rock album stub Category 1998 albums Category Fridge albums ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 The word Telesoftware was coined by W J G Overington who first proposed the idea it literally means software at a distance and it refers to the transmission of programs for a microprocessor or home computer s via broadcast Teletext . Software bytes are presented to a terminal as pairs of standard teletext characters, thus utilizing an existing and well proven broadcasting system. ref http www.surelinkcomms.co.uk tsft iee.htm Telesoftware Using TELETEXT to support a home computer IEE Conference Publication 166, pp 273 276, September 1978 ref Pioneered in the United Kingdom UK during the 1970s and 80s. During that time, software was broadcast at various times on all of the then four terrestrial TV channels. Telesoftware was available on Ceefax BBC teletext service for the BBC Microcomputer via its BBC Cheese Wedge teletext adapter from 1983 89 and was generally transmitted for a period of one week. Downloading could take place from Friday evening to the following Thursday evening. As the updating took place on a Friday, it was advised not to attempt to download software between 9am and 7pm on Fridays. ref http myweb.tiscali.co.uk themicrouser issues 05 03 telesoftware.htm The micro user telesoftware guide ref Other channels provided for several other computers via a range of adapters and set top boxes. The same delivery system was also used to deliver satellite weather images METEOSAT for download. ref http teletext.mb21.co.uk gallery ceefax telesoftware closure.html BBC Announces Closure of Telesoftware Service 1989 ref Although none of the early Telesoftware initiatives survived, many of the techniques are now at the heart of the latest digital television systems. References Reflist External links http teletext.mb21.co.uk gallery ceefax telesoftware index.shtml Telesoftware screenshots The teletext then and now archive http www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk Teletext Telesoftware.html Program Examples Teletext the early years http www.g7jjf.co ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2009 Image Electra teletext vlow res copy.jpg thumb 260px Screenshot of an Electra teletext page. Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from the early 1980s up until 1993, when it was shut down due to a lack of funding, and discontinuation of teletext capable television sets by the only US television manufacturer offering teletext capability at the time, Zenith Electronics Corporation Zenith . It was owned, operated and maintained by Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati based Taft Broadcasting Corporation and Tulsa, Oklahoma based Satellite Syndicated Systems Satellite Syndicated Systems SSS , in cooperation with cable satellite TV station Superstation WTBS now TBS Superstation , who carried Electra s data on their VBI WTBS was in turn owned by Turner Broadcasting System , which would purchase the Hanna Barbera animation studio, and most shows from sister company Ruby Spears , from Taft successor Great American Broadcasting in 1991 Turner is now part of Time Warner . Electra was America s answer to the United Kingdom British Ceefax or ORACLE teletext ORACLE systems, providing news headlines, weather, entertainment lifestyle info, and other information. Electra used the World System Teletext WST protocol, the same protocol used by Ceefax and ORACLE, as well as by other teletext services in the rest of the Europe an continent. Electra was one of the very few United States American teletext services in operation. A few other services were offered by some large market TV stations in the US throughout the 1980s, such as Metrotext from KTTV in Los Angeles and KeyFax from WFLD in Chicago . Electra also carried another teletext service on its higher numbered pages, a service called Tempo . Tempo mainly carried sports and other miscellaneous information on its pages. At the time of Electra s closing in 1993, it was the only existing teletext service in the USA. See also Teletext DEFAULTSORT Electra Teletext Category Teletext ... more details
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Infonet was a Malaysia n teletext service. It was formerly known as Beriteks a combination of the Malay word Berita , meaning news , and Teks , which is a borrowed word from the English language meaning text . The teletext system was launched in late 1985 by TV3 Malaysia TV3 . While TV1 Malaysia RTM1 and TV2 Malaysia RTM2 were still transmitting Teletext, the contents of the transmission were different from those offered by TV3 Malaysia TV3 s service, which was then also transmitted under the name Beriteks . RTM1 and RTM2 has ceased teletext transmission as of 2000, and TV3 was the only TV station in Malaysia transmitting Teletext. None of TV3 s sister companies, 8TV , TV9 Malaysia TV9 and NTV7 , are transmitting teletext. Infonet ceased operation from 1 January 2008. Therefore there are now no TV stations transmitting Teletext in Malaysia. Infonet uses the BBC Ceefax teletext system. External links http teletext.mb21.co.uk gallery world malaysia index.shtml Beriteks 1991 Malaysia stub tv station stub Category Television in Malaysia Category Teletext ... more details
Citations missing date April 2007 FourText originally 4 Tel was the United Kingdom British Channel 4 s ancillary teletext service from 1982 until 2003. Content FourText provided listings and information about Channel 4 s programmes, such as previews of programmes and further information related to the programmes. The service was separate from the auxiliary and separately licensed teletext service also available on the channel. FourText also provided subtitles for Channel 4 programmes on page 888. History FourText, originally called 4 Tel, was first run in conjunction with ORACLE teletext ORACLE , the auxiliary teletext provider for Channel 4, in the 1980s. 4 Tel occupied pages 410 499 within ORACLE s page space. When ORACLE lost its licence and was replaced by Teletext Ltd in 1993, 4 Tel moved to its own page space on pages 300 399. Channel 4 enlisted Intelfax to run the service. In 2002, 4 Tel was renamed FourText. In addition, FourText also launched on digital television. In 2003, Channel 4 ended their contract with Intelfax and contracted out the service to Teletext Ltd. The new service was named Teletext on 4 and operated on pages 400 499 which replaced pages 300 399 as Channel 4 s page space . Image Scratch4Cash.JPG right 300px thumb A screenshot of 4 Tel on View from the mid 1990s 4 Tel On View 4 Tel On View was a similar concept to Ceefax Pages from Ceefax Pages from Ceefax , providing Channel 4 with a selection of pages from 4 Tel , for broadcast before the day s programming began. It served as something of a substitute test card , with either a tone or music playing in the background. The pages were only broadcast on weekdays until C4 began breakfast time broadcasting in April 1989. It ceased to be broadcast altogether in January 1997, when Channel 4 began broadcasting 24 hours. Like Pages from Ceefax, On View was originally transmitted as part of the standard teletext feed but made visible to all using an in vision teletext generator. Viewers with teletext ... more details
Refimprove date July 2009 Merge from Test Card X date November 2010 Test Card W is a test card , an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture. It is an updated 16 9 1.78 1 widescreen version of Test Card F , which was created by BBC engineer George Hersee . Test Card W is similar to Test Card J , the latter being a 4 3 version. Both appeared for the first time in November 1999. The color bar colour bars on the top and right of the image are the full 100 percent saturation version, unlike Test Cards F and J which use the 95 percent type. Extra mirrored arrow heads on the central axis at the sides mark the positions of the middle 4 3 and 14 9 sections of the image. As television is usually broadcast 24 hours a day, the test card is now rarely used. The last known occasion that this card was broadcast on United Kingdom British screens was Friday 9 January 2004, when early morning tests were carried out on BBC One and BBC Two . BBC Two still closes every weekday morning between 4.00 and 6.00 and during Educational Holidays, but pages from Ceefax rather than test cards are broadcast on these occasions. Sightings The last occasion that Test Card W was broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two was Friday 9 January 2004. The times before that were for a few minutes on 3 December 2003 on BBC Two during the 2003 tests seen for around 20 minutes during Pages from Ceefax time from about 02.20 on 22 June 2003 a brief appearance in the early in the morning of 14 August 2001 in a programme gap on BBC One between 03.00 and 04.00 on 27 July 2001 while BBC Two was on reduced power and during the August 2000 BBC rebroadcast test. Test Card W flashed up briefly on BBC1 early in the morning of Tuesday November 3, 2009 during the opening credits to BBC breakfast news On Freeview UK Freeview in the United Kingdom, Test Card W can be viewed at any time on most Freeview boxes. ref http www.digitalspy.co.uk forums showthread.php?t 728925 ref See also List of BBC test cards ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2010 Infobox musical artist name Fridge image caption image size background group or band origin Putney , London , England genre Post rock , Experimental music Experimental , Minimalist music Minimalist years active 1995 present label Domino Records Output Recordings br Go Beat Records br Text Records associated acts Adem Ilhan Adem br Four Tet website http www.brainwashed.com fridge brainwashed.com fridge current members Kieran Hebden br Adem Ilhan br Sam Jeffers past members Fridge are an English post rock band, comprising school friends Kieran Hebden , Adem Ilhan , and Sam Jeffers. Initially Hebden played electric guitar guitar , Ilhan bass guitar bass , and Jeffers Drum kit drums , but Hebden and Ilhan soon adopted a variety of other instruments, and by 1999 s Eph the Sampler musical instrument sampler was playing an increasingly important role in the group s music. Hebden, Ilhan and Jeffers all attended Elliott School London Elliott School in Putney, which has become regarded as a hotbed for musical talent other notable alumni including Hot Chip , Burial musician Burial and The xx all of which members of Fridge have worked with. Hebden began a solo career in the late 1990s under the name Four Tet while the other two members attended college. Ilhan has also released three solo albums, Homesongs 2004 , Love and Other Planets 2006 , and Takes 2008 under the name Adem. The band s fifth album and first in six years , The Sun Fridge album The Sun , was released in June 2007. The three musicians have also worked on occasion as the backing band for Badly Drawn Boy , and remixed his single Another Pearl . Fridge also played their first public gig in six years, at Bardens Boudoir in Dalston , London on 9 August 2007. They followed this up with a performance at the 2007 Field Day festival Field Day festival in Victoria Park, East London Victoria Park , London. Discography Albums Ceefax album Ceefax Output Recordings , 1997 Semaphore album Semaph ... more details
launched its Ceefax teletext service in 1974, the same year that Teletext s predecessor, ORACLE ... . Ceefax continues to run on BBC analogue channels to this day. See also Teletext the system List of teletext services Ceefax BBC Ceefax ITV Channel 4 Channel Five Five Bamboozle , a teletext multiple ... more details
CeefaxCeefax is the BBC s teletext information service transmitted via the analogue signal, started in 1974 and will run until April 2012. As of 2011, in vision Ceefax broadcasts are shown on BBC Two .... However, occasional Ceefax broadcasts can still be seen on BBC1 Scotland . This usually broadcasts ... more details
service, Ceefax. A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial ... 12 13 ref BBC Text was considerably more advanced than Ceefax, in that it offered a richer visual interface, with the possibility of photographic images and designed graphics as opposed to Ceefax graphics ... whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full screen ... matching with those of the analogue Ceefax in 2006. Pages exclusive to digital are given a four digit ... more details
Pete Clifton is a British media executive with MSN MSN UK and the former head of BBC News Interactive. Career Clifton was previously the editor of Ceefax, ref name m and before joining the BBC was a news and sports reporter at the Chronicle and Echo in Northampton , ref name m a sports journalist at the Exchange Telegraph national news agency, ref name m chief sports sub at the UK s Press Association PA ref name m and editor of the PA s Teletext service. Citation needed date August 2007 Clifton was involved in the founding of BBC News Online and also helped set up the BBC Sport website in 2000. ref name m cite web title Pete Clifton url http www.mediacenter.org content 6681.cfm publisher The Media center at the American Press Institute accessdate 16 August 2007 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20070927051244 http www.mediacenter.org content 6681.cfm archivedate 27 September 2007 ref He went on to become editor of BBC News Online in 2004, succeeding founding editor Mike Smartt , until he was promoted to Head of BBC News Interactive in October 2005 with responsibility for BBC News Online, CBBC Newsround , the Ceefax teletext service, the digital text service, On This Day , BBC s Interactive TV, the Action Network and a variety of news services to mobile phone s and other mobile devices. ref name b cite news first Richard last Deverell title News Interactive url http news.bbc.co.uk aboutbbcnews low this is bbc news newsid 3280000 3280463.stm publisher BBC News date 25 November 2003 accessdate 16 August 2007 ref His successor as Editor of BBC News Online was named on 2 December 2005 as Steve Herrmann. ref name bi cite news title BBC News Interactive s new editor url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi entertainment 4492820.stm work Entertainment publisher BBC News date 2 December 2005 accessdate 16 August 2007 ref Clifton replaced Richard Deverell in the role, who had moved to become chief operating officer of CBBC . ref name j cite news first Jemima last Kiss title Head of BBC ... more details
peacock date December 2011 unreferenced date December 2011 Image BBC2 logo 1979.jpg thumb right 250px The electronic 2 ident The Computer Generated 2 was an ident used by BBC Two between Circa c. March 1979 and 31 March 1986. It was the first computer generated ident in the world and was a revolutionary new step for television presentation. Launch The ident package was launched at approximately the end of February and the beginning of March 1979, and was completely revolutionary. The ident was aired through a solid state computer device, not unlike the one used later for BBC One BBC1 s Computer Originated World , built by BBC engineers, and designed by Oliver Elmes. The concept of the double striped 2 had been around for a long time following the two television channels dropping corporate branding, a similar look was adopted by both channels featuring double striped numbers and BBC letters. The doubled striped 2 had been in use on programme promotions since 1977 and on holding slides since 1978. Components of Look The ident itself featured a cream, double striped numeral 2, with two orange lines either side going off screen. The whole ident had the illusion of three dimensions, with orange shadows, all on a black background. The ident would either remain static, scroll in from the left hand side or scroll out to the right. The form up ident was accompanied by an electronic fanfare, which was dropped in 1983. A subtitled programme would be accompanied by the additional caption below the numeral stating Ceefax 270 and later following a change of page Ceefax 888 . The clock that accompanied this new, look was a hugh contrast, as the previous mechanical clock was used. It was located in the BBC Two NODD Nexus Orthicon Display Device NODD room and comprosed an orange clock face with counters of ever increasing thickness and with a polo mint centre upon a black background. A plain orange and white 2D striped 2 logo was placed below the clock. The use of this old clock was ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 BLP sources date July 2007 Vin Ray is a member of the BBC s Journalism Board and the first Director of the BBC College of Journalism. ref http www.bbc.co.uk pressoffice pressreleases stories 2005 10 october 04 ray.shtml Press release , bbc.co.uk, October 10, 2004 ref History in the BBC Ray joined the BBC in CEEFAX in 1987 and moved on to work as a producer on the Nine O Clock News under the editorship of Mark Thompson. As a foreign field producer, Ray worked on many of the big stories of the early 1990s, including the first Gulf War , the Mikhail Gorbachev Gorbachev coup and the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian war . In the UK, he was in charge of the field operation for the resignation of Margaret Thatcher , as well as numerous Irish Republican Army IRA bombings. He became TV Foreign Editor in 1993 and two years later became the bi medial Foreign Editor across domestic TV and radio. In 1996 he was asked to merge the Newsgathering operations of the World Service and the domestic News and Current Affairs, becoming World News Editor, the first person to take charge of the BBC s entire foreign newsgathering operations. Influenced by the deaths and injuries of colleagues he was with Martin Bell in Sarajevo when he was injured Vin was instrumental in helping introduce safety equipment, courses and counselling services across the industry. In 1999, as Executive Editor, he was asked to look at improving the storytelling skills of the BBC s reporters and correspondents. He also had responsibility for recruiting and coaching on air talent for BBC News and gave many of the BBC s best known correspondents their first jobs in foreign news. He was described as a revered teacher by Andrew Marr who, along with many others, he trained and coached through his transition to broadcasting. Authorship Vin Ray is the author of two books The Reporter s Friend The Television News Handbook ref http www.amazon.co.uk dp 1405001208 Amazon.com entry for The Televi ... more details
Jon Foster born 18 September 1981 is a BAFTA winning English comedy writer. He grew up in Cheltenham , attending Dean Close School and then studied English and History at Trinity College Dublin graduating in 2005. Television Work Alongside writing partner James Lamont Writer James Lamont , he has written The Amazing World of Gumball for Cartoon Network for which he won a BAFTA Children s Award in 2011, The Armstrong and Miller Show for BBC One British Academy Television Awards 2010 BAFTA winner 2010 and School of Comedy for E4 channel E4 . They ve made numerous sketches for http www.bbc.co.uk comedy BBC Comedy Online including a parody of Paranormal Activity 2 called http www.bbc.co.uk comedy clips p00bvfbn spout normal activity Normal Activity ref http www.bbc.co.uk comedy clips p00bvfbn spout normal activity ref Ceefax spoof http www.bbc.co.uk comedy show p002qt1s cfkd CFKD ref http www.bbc.co.uk comedy extra show p002qt1s ref YouTube mash up http www.bbc.co.uk comedy clips p00b9s3k refail wall kick Re Fail ref http www.bbc.co.uk comedy clips p00b9s3k refail wall kick ref and technology sketch show http www.bbc.co.uk comedy show p0063wx6 ashens tech dump Tech Dump ref http www.bbc.co.uk comedy clips p0068cmg ref He co created http www.bbc.co.uk zombies Bryony Makes a Zombie Movie for BBC Three which was 2009 BAFTA Television Awards BAFTA and Rose d Or nominated in 2009. He also worked as a producer on 10 O Clock Live for Zeppotron and Channel 4 . References Reflist External links James Lamont & Jon Foster website http jameslamontjonfoster.blogspot.com Jon Foster on IMDB http www.imdb.com name nm3202466 Jon Foster on Linkedin http www.linkedin.com profile view?id 98020588&locale en US&trk tab pro Jon Foster on Twitter http twitter.com fosterjr Agent Details http www.independenttalent.com talent and literary Gloucestershire Echo article http www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk news Sky limit local BAFTA nominee article 935688 detail article.html Persondata Metadata see ... more details
only broadcast during the autumn and winter terms so Pages from Ceefax and occasionally Open University ... Shortly captions were retained. For the first two years of Daytime on Two, special Ceefax pages were ... gaps which had been filled by the Daytime on 2 Ceefax Pages, were now filled using the newly ... more details
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Infobox ITV franchisee name ORACLE image Image Oracle itv teletext.jpg 200px Service s logo based area National UK owner ITV airdate 1978 oldlogo captionb closeddate 31 December 1992 replaced replacedby Teletext Ltd Teletext website Image Itn oracle 1989a.jpg thumb 225px A typical ORACLE page, here showing news from ITN . ORACLE from Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics ref http www.channelonline.tv features channelyears 40years2.lpf Channel Television Through The Years corporate website ref was a commercial teletext service first broadcast on ITV in 1974 and later on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom , finally ending on both channels at 23 59 GMT on 31 December 1992. History It was developed and launched by a consortium backed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority at about the same time as the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC s Ceefax service. Due to the lack of available receivers, exact launch dates have been left obscure. Receivers became popular around 1980. ORACLE moved away from being an experimental engineering department and more towards being a content provider. Under the original plans for the ITV franchise renewal, they were to have been scrapped at the end of 1992 and the few Vertical blanking interval scan lines they used given to the highest bidder. ORACLE successfully campaigned for the creation of a franchise for the teletext service on ITV and Channel 4, only to find themselves outbid by Teletext Ltd. , a consortium originally comprising Associated Newspapers , Philips Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and Media Ventures International, who started broadcasting at midnight on 1 January 1993. The end ORACLE began to disappear at 23 31 09 on 31 December 1992. It continued until 23 55 55 and it said ORACLE Gone 1978 1992. Because of the rivalry between the two companies, ORACLE did not carry television listings beyond its midnight closing time on New Year s Eve 1992. It merely stated 00.00 The End of Oracle, Now the Ni ... more details
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