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ExtraVision was a teletext service created and operated by the American television network CBS in the early to mid-1980s.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Antiope (teletext), Associated Press, BBC, CBS, Closed captioning, Electra (teletext), Federal Communications Commission, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Independent Broadcasting Authority, KCBS-TV, KCET, KMOV, KSL-TV, NABTS, National Association of the Deaf (United States), NBC, NBC Teletext, Network affiliate, PBS, Subtitles, Teletext, Television broadcaster, Tribune Media, Vertical blanking interval, WBTV, WGBH-TV, WIVB-TV, World System Teletext.

  2. 1983 establishments in North Carolina
  3. 1988 disestablishments in the United States
  4. CBS
  5. Products and services discontinued in 1988
  6. Products introduced in 1983
  7. Products introduced in 1984
  8. Teletext

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Antiope (teletext)

Antiope was a French teletext standard in the 1980s. ExtraVision and Antiope (teletext) are teletext.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Closed captioning

Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.

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Electra (teletext)

Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from 1982 up until 1993, when it was shut down due to a lack of funding, and discontinuation of teletext-capable television sets by the only US television manufacturer offering teletext capability at the time, Zenith. ExtraVision and Electra (teletext) are teletext.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States.

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The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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KCBS-TV

KCBS-TV (channel 2), branded CBS Los Angeles, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CBS network.

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KCET

KCET (channel 28) is a secondary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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KMOV

KMOV (channel 4) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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KSL-TV

KSL-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with NBC.

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NABTS

NABTS, the North American Broadcast Teletext Specification, is a protocol used for encoding NAPLPS-encoded teletext pages, as well as other types of digital data, within the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of an analog video signal. ExtraVision and NABTS are teletext.

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National Association of the Deaf (United States)

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NBC Teletext

NBC Teletext was a teletext service provided by the American TV network NBC from 1981 to 1985, based on the NABTS standard. ExtraVision and NBC Teletext are 1981 establishments in California, Products introduced in 1983 and teletext.

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Network affiliate

In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Subtitles

Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. ExtraVision and Subtitles are teletext.

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Teletext

Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets.

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Television broadcaster

A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.

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Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Vertical blanking interval

In a raster scan display, the vertical blanking interval (VBI), also known as the vertical interval or VBLANK, is the time between the end of the final visible line of a frame or field and the beginning of the first visible line of the next frame or field.

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WBTV

WBTV (channel 3) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Gray Television.

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WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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WIVB-TV

WIVB-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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World System Teletext

World System Teletext (WST) is the name of a standard for encoding and displaying teletext information, which is used as the standard for teletext throughout Europe today. ExtraVision and World System Teletext are teletext.

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See also

1983 establishments in North Carolina

1988 disestablishments in the United States

CBS

Products and services discontinued in 1988

Products introduced in 1983

Products introduced in 1984

Teletext

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtraVision