Six Text (Emoa owned)

Six Text is the generic brand used for both analogue and digital teletext services, provided in Emoa and Caledonia Media's Network Six regional franchises. It is available 9:25am to 6am daily and produced by Emoa Neptune.

About
All pages carry Six Text branding only, and the name of the region (or digital channel) being viewed is displayed in the bottom right corner. The 600-699 magazine carries entirely regional content.

Six Text works alongside the regional anxcilliary teletext services, NETEXT, Mercia Extra and GTV Extra, which operate on both the analogue and digital platforms on pages 600 to 699, operated by the regional franchises. These services are 'slotted in' to the full Six Text service by regional broadcast departments. The regional companies also operate subtitling, EPG and channel ID technologies.

Two versions are available, an analogue and digital equivalent. The full analogue service is availble only to analogue terrestrial viewers; all other platforms predominately recieve the digital version. A scaled down analogue service is available alongside the digital one on digital satellite television, consisting of weather, TV guide, service guide, subtitles and Six News pages. This legacy system will be phased out as digital switchover approaces in Emoa's regions.

A "change TV" function is available to switch between any Network Six channel on DTT multiplex 3, by pressing blue. In Mercia's regional magazine, this function is achieved by pressing '0', and GTV Extra features this function on its "shortcuts" menu.

History
It first launched on 15 April 2006 on NETV and Mercia Weekend Television as "Six Text" as the analogue service, and "Emoa Text" for the digital services, by Emoa's broadcast arm Neptune Television. The two services were then brought to Northern Scotland when Emoa acquired the GTV licence after subsequently losing Mercia. Between July and October 2006 Neptune Television was de-merged, and the smaller department, Emoa Text Digital Ltd, independently continued the service.

NETV and GTV dropped association with the Emoa brand on 1 November 2006, and at the same time, digital service "Emoa Text" followed suit and adopted the name of its analogue counterpart, although the department of Emoa Text Digital was retained.

After the brief spell of independence, in May 2007 Emoa Text Digital and Emoa Plus were re-merged to form Emoa Neptune once more, which has thereafter continued Emoa's Six Text services.

When Emoa gained the Midlands franchise as Mercia Television, the service replaced Spectrum Text, with Mercia Extra being used to provide regional content.

Regional services, NETEXT, Mercia Extra and GTV Extra were formed on a totally regional basis and use separate layout designs to the main Six Text service.

Digital switchover
As part of Digital Switchover, Neptune has confirmed a wind-down of the promotion of Analogue-only services and the migration of a number of features from Analogue-only to Digital-only. In both Emoa regions, Digital Switchover will be occuring between 2011 and 2012, therefore Emoa has no plans to close analogue services presently.


 * From July 2010, the Breeze magazine on Analogue pages 500-549 will be reduced to only the most articles on pages 500-519. On the same date, the Cinema and Music sections (p365-389) will be moved to pages 520-544.
 * From September 2010, pages 655-679 will be freed up from the regional service. The regional travel section formally on pages 170-179 will move to 655-664 and Disability/Complaints service on pages 480-499 will be reduced and move to 665-679 and administered regionally. Pools, betting and other adverts formally on pages 680-694 will be moved to 480-494.
 * In October 2010, the TV guide on pages 110-124 will be reduced to 110-119 and programme guides will be removed. Entertainment news will move from pages 300-314 to 120-129, and lottery moving from 333 to 133. Singles & Album charts will be moved from 363-364 to 548, and the Entertainment index 399 will replace the Breeze magazine index on 549. At this point, there will be no pages on 300-399.
 * In December 2010, the Breeze magazine 500-519 will be removed and only the most recent two articles will be published on page 134. The Cinema & Music sections on p520-544 will be reduced and replaced in pages 140-149. Charts on 548 will move to 495, and the Entertainment index will be removed. Holidays on 550-599 will move to 700-749. At this point, there will be no pages on 500-599.
 * By January 2011, the Entertainment, Cinema and Music and TV guide sections will be removed.
 * By April 2011, the Sports section will be removed, and Holidays will be reduced and moved into the 175-198 slot.

At the point of digital switchover, only magazines 100-199, 200-299 and 600-699 will be in use.

Magazines

 * 100-199: Service information, weather, travel, TV guide, programme guides,
 * 200-299: Six News
 * 300-399: Entertainment, horoscopes, charts, music, cinema, lottery
 * 400-479: Sports (SSN)
 * 480-499: Disability services, complaints, addresses
 * 500-549: Breeze - lighthearted magazine
 * 550-599: Holidays
 * 600-699: Regional services (NETEXT, Mercia Extra, GTV Extra)
 * 700-799: Backup (in the case of election results, emergencies etc)

Digital only

 * 700-799: Childrens, additional digital services
 * 800-849: activ8
 * 850-884: Personals & Dating
 * 885-887: Chat
 * 888: Subtitling instructions
 * 900-999: Backup (in case of election results, emergencies etc)

Analogue only

 * 888: English subtitles
 * 889: Gaelic subtitles (GTV Gaelic programming only)