Ceefax{™}

Ceefax{™}
n [U]
a British television information service provided by the BBC. It offers many different types of information, e.g. weather reports, sports results and financial news, and the information is shown without sound on special channels:

According to Ceefax there are road works causing delays on the M6 near Preston

See also Teletext.

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