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31st December 2010 - From Ant :

At this time of year I'm always reminded of how long it has been since Oracle disappeared - 18 years ago this evening in fact. With that in mind. thought you might like this. Bits and pieces of it have been floating around in various forms for a while but at the moment I think this is probably the most complete and restored version of the full last night of Oracle. Sourced from an SVHS recording, processed with some teletext hardware that basically did its best to repair the pages from as many repeat cycles as it could make out, and - after much procrastination - a certain amount of human repair (that would be me then).

P117/01 ORACLE 117 Thu31 Dec ITV 2251:00
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 ******** ORACLE GOES                   
 ******** OFF THE AIR                   
                                        
 ORACLE goes off the air at midnight    
 tonight to be replaced by a new        
 teletext service following this year's 
 controversial franchise auction.       
                                        
 ITN has provided the news, sport and   
 financial news to ORACLE since the late
 1970s and teletext is now an important 
 news medium watched by millions daily. 
                                        
 ORACLE's accurate and impartial news   
 coverage has made it a more trusted    
 service than newspapers, according to  
 market research.                       
                                        
 And its speed has inevitably often put 
 it one step ahead of TV and radio. >>>>
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