*"What's teletext?" our younger readers naturally wonder.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/jersey/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8366000/8366937.stm
The Teletext information service on analogue and digital television will close across the UK on 16 December.
Limited services including holidays, racing and bookmaking and the subtitles on analogue channels will remain available. ((("analogue channels")))
Teletext's chat and dating TV channels on Freeview will also be unaffected.
Speaking to the BBC in Jersey, Karen Rankin, the Managing Director of Broadcast at Channel TV said the closure was a commercial decision.
"The decision was taken by Teletext UK who run the licence for the whole of the UK to withdraw the service at the end of this year," said Karen.
She went on to explain that the advertising funded service was no longer commercially viable.
"Because it is a service that is funded entirely by a commercial advertising revenue, what's been happening of course is that as people have migrated more and more to using the internet, it is no longer a viable business model.
"Channel Television has provided for a very long time local pages into that national service but we are not the licence holders ourselves.
"We are only contracted to provide the local service so that will go at the same time," said Karen.
If you use the Teletext service to check flights or harbour information you will need to look elsewhere....
