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==Other teletext services==
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In spite of its name, the ''"Teletext"''-branded service was neither the first nor the only teletext service in the UK. The [[BBC]] (one of the original developers of teletext) launched its [[Ceefax]] teletext service in 1974, the same year that ''Teletext's'' predecessor, [[ORACLE (teletext)|ORACLE]], also appeared. Although ORACLE closed at the end of 1992 (when Teletext Ltd outbid it for the franchise), Ceefax continued to run on BBC analogue channels until the cessation of analogue signals in October 2012.
[[FourText]], originally called 4-Tel, was first run in conjunction with ORACLE, as an auxiliary teletext provider for Channel 4 from 1982. 4-Tel occupied pages 410-469 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 (effectively its own magazine). 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dmgt.co.uk/mediacentre/newsreleases/20030701/3282/ |title=Teletext and C4 sign text services deal |publisher=Daily Mail and General Trust |date=2003-07-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003308/http://www.dmgt.co.uk/mediacentre/newsreleases/20030701/3282/ |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> 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). However, on 30 October 2008, Teletext on 4 on Channel 104 closed and replaced in December 2008 by 1-2-1 Dating. using Teletext on 4's old channel number.
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