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5text: The Holiday Channel
The Channel 5 teletext service licence recently came up for renewel, having been cast off by Sky5Text who previously ran the 5text service (which, incidentally, had a weird "24 hours ahead" policy on the TV listings and once billed a film as being a "Comedy quiz with Tim Vine" on C5 Now&Next). We were going to bid for the licence, but forgot to send back the form. However, had we won it, the service might have looked like this:
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However, we didn't win - Teletext Ltd did. So, we can expect C5 Text to look something like this:
When we heard the news of Teletext's demise we nearly decided to resurrect UnsatisfactoryText. That was before we checked the headlines.
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