Text on Text

Ceefax entertainment section is undergoing another change tonight. A section called Entertainment extra is due to "replace" the Gamestation, Music, Film, Daily Quiz,charts and Have Your Say pages. How precisly this vaugly named section will replace these very different pages is questionable. If they were simply to be incoperated into this section, presumably moved would be better wording. My bet would be on ten pages that have on various days a review or two of each kind, probably not Games as I can't imagine it gets a high readership. Quiz and charts will probably remain as they are easy enough to maintain. Couple of interviews will probably be thrown in to but on the whole it'll most likely to be a bit of a downgrading. We won't have to wait too long before it is clear though as the changes come into effect tomorrow. I considered delaying my post til then but you gotta create some suspense.

Got an interesting teletext article through my google alerts yesterday about Teletext in Nigeria. Admittedly it had the tone of an advertisement more than a genuine article but was keen to impress how this apparently recent introduction has been a success. The ability to access news at any point has been particularly appreciated. It has been used for education and while the article doesn't go into specifics this is surely a good thing and a very innovative idea. Run by Tgmedia, teletext apparently has attracted lots of interest amongst the Nigerian public and it is expected to be quickly expanded. even into a blackberry service. Parts of it are aimed towards the sizable illiterate population of Nigeria, again I don't know specifics of how that works but it is a clever idea at least.

So another update on Ceefax tomorrow and perhaps even what is surely the key issue of our age, Nigerian Teletext.