Until 22 October 2012, limited Ceefax content could be viewed overnight on BBC Two via the BBC's Pages from Ceefax slot, on both analogue and digital services. This consists of selected Ceefax pages (typically news) transmitted as an ordinary TV picture. As a result, although Pages from Ceefax could be viewed on any receiver, the interactive nature of the service was lost. Audio accompaniment typically consisted of stock music or sometimes a discontinuous tone. The last Pages from Ceefax slot was shown in the early hours of Monday 22 October 2012 and was marked by continuity announcements and a specially-created end caption featuring various Ceefax graphics from over the years.
Pages from Ceefax was normally only shown in the absence of any other programming. Once a common filler during daytime (where it was originally billed on-air as Ceefax in Vision or, in the case of the pre-Breakfast Time slot during the 1980s as Ceefax AM), it was marginalised by the move towards a near-continuous service, and even overnight slots were reduced as simulcasts of BBC News and The Learning Zone programming was placed in late night/early morning gaps in schedules.
In a similar manner, Channel 4 also showed pages from Oracle until 1989 and 4-Tel On View until 1997, and in the late 1980s, some ITV companies broadcast a programme called Jobfinder which consisted of Teletext pages showing details of job vacancies in their region and other jobseeking-related information.
The limited set of rolling pages shown on Pages from Ceefax (referred to as a "newsreel") was also accessible at any time of day via Ceefax page 152 (BBC Two only) on any analogue Teletext television.
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