About Teletext Extra

Teletext Extra is a new service designed to enhance the viewing experience for millions of Freeview viewers, currently being launched by Teletext, the leading TV text information brand.

Teletext Extra features a sophisticated Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) which is accessible from all Freeview channels whenever viewers press the TV Guide button on the digital remote control. The guide provides viewers with fully programmable 14-day listings and extensive preview and programme information.

Teletext Extra carries direct links to an enhanced, noticeably faster and easier to navigate digital Teletext service, which for the first time provides high-resolution pictures to complement the latest news, entertainment and sports stories, as well as containing more information than is currently found on Teletext’s ITV and C4 digital services.

Teletext, which runs the existing text services on ITV and Channel 4’s digital channels, has been working hand-in-hand with InView, a specialist developer of content delivery technology for digital television and with considerable digital TV expertise, to develop Teletext Extra.

The new service is being made available to homes with specific models of Freeview box via an ‘over-air download’. New box sales from certain manufacturers will have the application pre-installed in coming months. We’re hoping manufacturers and retailers will soon be promoting Teletext Extra functionality in the same way as ‘Fast Text’ was once embraced by the industry. To see which boxes currently provide Teletext Extra click here.