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It was developed and launched, by a consortium backed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority , about the same time as the BBC 's Ceefax service. Due to the lack of available receivers, exact launch dates have been left obscure. Receivers became popular around 1980 . ORACLE moved away from being an experimental engineering department and more towards being a content provider. Under the original plans for the ITV franchise renewal, they were to have been scrapped at the end of 1992 and the few lines they used given to the highest bidder. ORACLE successfully campaigned for the creation of a franchise for the teletext service on ITV and Channel 4, only to find themselves outbid by Teletext Ltd ., a consortium originally comprising Associated Newspapers, Philips Electronics and Media Ventures International, who started broadcasting at midnight on January 1 , 1993 . Because of the rivalry between the two companies, ORACLE did not carry television listings beyond its midnight closing time on New Years Eve 1992. It merely stated "00.00 The End of Oracle, Now the Nightmare Begins". Even now Oracle is perhaps best remembered for its advertising slogan "Page The Oracle" EXTERNAL LINK |
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