31 December – This was ORACLE’s final day on air, and it stops broadcasting at 23:59:59.16 November – A reorganisation of the Ceefax service takes place.Following the Broadcasting Act 1990 and ORACLE loses the National Teletext franchise to Teletext Ltd. 16 October – The Independent Television Commission announces the results of the franchise round.The magazine elements are significantly reduced and are mainly restricted to the weekend. 20 November – The Ceefax service is relaunched to focus on news, sport and current affairs.The Ceefax Telesoftware transmissions end after six years.31 March – The last Oracle on View transmission takes place.To this day, it emits the only soap opera of its kind. A new episode is released daily until ORACLE’s final day on air. 1 December – ORACLE launches its teletext soap opera Park Avenue.The commencement of 24-hour broadcasting on ITV sees many regions launching a teletext Jobfinder service as part of their overnight offering with almost all of the ITV regions using Level 2 teletext graphics.24 October – Ahead of the launch of the BBC's daytime television service, Pages from Ceefax are shown during BBC1's daytime downtime for the final time.This allows Ceefax to expand other sections into the 20 pages previously used for sports news. May – Ceefax expands its sports coverage when it moves the sport pages to the 300s.2 April – The first in-vision teletext service is seen on ITV when Central launches its Jobfinder service which broadcasts for one hour after the end of the day's programming.The changes also see the end of duplicate pages on both channels. The pages on ITV become more news focused and more regional pages are added and the content on Channel 4 becomes more magazine focussed. 1 October – ORACLE revamps its service.Sky Channel launches its teletext service Sky Text.7 January – Daytime Ceefax transmissions are renamed Pages from Ceefax following the decision by Radio Times to begin listing daytime Ceefax broadcasts.November – The Ceefax service is relaunched.It broadcasts the pages in the 700s page range as an addition to the regular 100-page service. Ceefax starts to broadcast computer programs, known as telesoftware, for the BBC Micro (a home computer available in the United Kingdom).2 May – From today Ceefax in Vision is broadcast during all daytime downtime although until September BBC2 continues to fully close down for four hours after Play School.Teletext pages are only shown on weekdays. Two magazines are shown – 4-Tel on View and Oracle on View – and in fifteen minute bursts which are repeated several times each day prior to the start of each day's transmissions. 18 March – Channel 4 broadcasts in-vision teletext pages for the first time.It is first mentioned in the Radio Times on 21 March. 28 February – BBC1 begins broadcasting a 30-minute Ceefax slot prior to the start of Breakfast Time.Both Sbectel and 4-Tel are operated in conjunction with ORACLE with the production of 4-Tel outsourced to Intelfax, a company set up especially for the purpose.
2 November – Channel 4 launches and this results in the start of transmissions of its teletext service 4-Tel.1 November – S4C launches and this results in the start of transmissions of its teletext service Sbectel.Three 30-minute transmissions are aired at various points during weekday daytime downtime. March – The very first in-vision Ceefax transmissions are broadcast.ITV's teletext service ORACLE launches.World System Teletext is adopted as the common way to broadcast teletext services through Europe with a display format of 24 rows by 40 columns of characters.
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