15 Jul 2024 05:30 PM
Red Bitton stopped working
15 Jul 2024 05:44 PM
Told by sky this service stopped on +boxes from yesterday
15 Jul 2024 06:39 PM
As an experiment I tried BBC1 West Yorkshire (Channnel 954 on my TV) and it worked I I got the red Button to work! and was able to read the news as usual. What is going on???
15 Jul 2024 06:58 PM
More Experiments. The one's that seem to work are in the NE and NW of England. Not the Midlands nor the South. Scotland does not work either. Have not tried Wales yet.
15 Jul 2024 07:14 PM - last edited: 15 Jul 2024 07:22 PM
I've messaged Sky on X to see if I can get an official response regarding if its been discontinued or not
15 Jul 2024 07:30 PM
Still on freeview if you have the service.
15 Jul 2024 08:33 PM
It only works on 2 BBC channels ( BBC 1 NI and BBC1 Yk )
15 Jul 2024 09:46 PM
Hi
i got a call from my father today. He has enjoyed using teletext for as long as I can remember to check share prices. Today the 'text' button he's pressed for years has stopped working.
I made a call to Sky and spoke to a very nice man who didn't even know what teletext was. I'm guessing he was much younger than my Dad.
He upgraded from Sky HD to Sky Q a few years ago and lost the service then. He got the Sky engineer to reinstall his Sky HD boxes as h was.
so, anyone able to shed some light or help me come up with a conclusion to his situation please?
15 Jul 2024 09:51 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more15 Jul 2024 10:13 PM
Final Experiment. The Red Button did not work on BBC1 Wales.
As a check, I used an old terrestrial TV on all the BBC channels and the Red Button worked, so the BBC are still providing the service and it is up-to-date.
So who would remove the Red Button service for Sky+HD from most of mainland Britain and leave it working in the North of England and for what purpose? Is it done for a reason or is it just incompetence?
I see no reason for the BBC to do this so it is probably Sky. We shall see, we hope😀
15 Jul 2024 10:18 PM
I live in Sussex and nothing on my 101 service.
Text available on sky channels BBC
952 BBC1
953 BBC1
954 BBC1
969 BBC2
No idea why on those and not others,perhaps they will go as well in the future if being done by region.
16 Jul 2024 06:56 AM
Hi, yes I have sky plus and am in north east wales near border, same problem, very annoying!
16 Jul 2024 09:16 AM
Posted by a Sky employeeHi all, thank you for flagging this to us!
We've sent it on to our support teams to investigate 🙂
16 Jul 2024 10:14 AM
Same for me teletext is only working on 952-954
16 Jul 2024 11:34 AM
Ive had exactly the same issue since yesterday, im trying to resolve it but without success so far
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