Twenty European countries were represented in Kilkenny to discuss the future of text services via television.
Conference in Kilkenny looks to how text services could be made available through television sets.
On show in Kilkenny were examples of various European teletext services. RTÉ managing director of Aertel, Barry O'Halloran outlines how text technology will be used.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 28 September 1989. The reporter is Michael Ryan.
RTÉ began transmitting Aertel, a teletext news and information service, on 22 June 1987. Information on foreign, national and regional news, sport, finance and agriculture, weather forecasts, and television and radio listings were all made available free of charge. To avail of the Aertel service, the viewer required a television set equipped with a teletext converter or decoder.
