BBC text service to finish this month.

All that money and they are scrapping everything

Who's getting the money? disgusting organisation that is long past its sell by date

I agree with Crippen. It's a terrific service. Complete contrast to the BBC's online pages, where news coverage is dominated by the plight of transgender vegans tackling global warming.

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I thought it was only the red button service that was going to be defunct?

It's the same thing stewarty b,

The Red button service is the latest name for the text service.

They say that all the information will be available online.

But that's like paying for a newspaper at a shop, and the newsagent telling you you can't have a paper copy, you'll have to go and read it online.

I'd tell him to stick his paper up his jacksy.

Meanwhile several hundred radio channels are keeping tens of thousands of luvvies in clover.

Money probably to be respent on New WIGGY C0CK radio station , WCG live !

noticed this 3 weeks ago on the red button, it was kinda like the remnants of the old teletext/ceefax services which I used to use religiously, now really is the end of an era, surely it doesn't cost that much to run, it's not like they fork out millions as Sky and BT to for popular sports, they only really have rights to minor sports. One thing I wont miss is on the sport pages where it would have a headline about a premier league club and you think that's interesting, press on the page and the article was about the women's team instead without it stating it was womens football. Nothing against women's football but very misleading.

I agree, I will miss it badly....I am sure many others will

One of  the few good things left about the BBC

It was so convenient, no need to listen or watch the news, available any time

An absolute disgrace. They don't represent the licence payer and there should be an investigation into the way they use licence money. Making programmes my arse, more like promoting their agenda.

I can't take them seriously, two minutes of their pathetic news coverage and I want to be sick non stop....

You have to feel sorry for this group and that group but feel free to despise orange man and everyone else we don't like.

bring back Ceefax

Always preferred Ceefax.

With teletext gone I think it could drive a lot of people to stop buying a television license.

If I lived alone I'd love to give the television license people the run around.

Glued to the set, waiting for the results to update.

They should stop showing women's football

and any other of this women's sport rubbish

and keep the red button

no one should pay the licence fee,,

Uble, they are bound, by their own standards, to put on ever more minority/diversity stuff. The rest of the public will have to take it or leave it. I think more and more will leave it.

Of course we might all end up liking what they tell us we should like, but I somehow doubt it.

Me like women's football Saddo

Mind you I am so desperate for a bet it may happen

the future is bleak


I will seriously miss the red button though, oh well

A lot of older people rely on it, this is very poor from the BBC

I can't understand why anyone who lives alone and hates the BBC would pay the BBC license fee.

I know people who still believe the van parked outside can pick up your signal and prove you're watching a live broadcast, but it's a myth.

For a quiet life. Pay £13/month, and not have the hassle or the nagging worry that goes with not having a licence.

It's protection money really.