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Teletext Ltd (owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc) has been fined ÂĢ225,000 by Ofcom for the way that they closed down the public broadcasting part of the service (which was the bulk of it like the news and sports pages). Teletext said that that they were make large losses so had no choice but to close down when they did. Ofcom consider that the making of losses was not an acceptable reason for closing the public broadcasting part so raised this fine.

I don't think many of us will think this unfair as we are now just left with the BBC service (the Sky service on Freeview is so small as can't be regarded as an adequate replacement to the ITV/Channel 4/Channel 5 Teletext).

Ofcom indicate that the Teletext channel is still available for a future replacement.

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that sounds just plain daft to me. .you make losses you close down before the losses get even bigger, if the drop has been constant and there's no chance of an upturn surely
I did't go into the full details of Ofcom's reasons as it would be been a very long posting. This is a link to their report where they explain their views that Teletext having given a public broadcasting status were under an obligation to fulfill that obligation. I doubt if the size of the losses being made would have been on the scale that would have caused financial problems for the owners - the Daily Mail group.
El Loro

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