Reply 31020 of 53029, by dr.ido
I wonder if anyone still broadcasts the text-over-radio service these were meant to receive anymore? Seems like the sort of thing that could have been left on at a transmitter site years ago and forgotten about - still broadcasting the page from when it was last updated 20 years ago.
As unlikely as that seems things are often left on in a broadcast environment until they break - There were a couple of stations here still broadcasting an abandoned AM stereo format (for which you can no longer buy a compatible recevier) - A compatible receiver decode it and the ads and news would be stereo (probably because the same feed was used for their FM station), but their actual talk programming was mono. When the transmitter site was eventually updated the stereo encoder was removed. Before analog TV was switched off you could still find long dead teletext pages that hadn't been updated for years if you manually entered the page numbers.