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====Jobfinder==== During the late 1980s and mid 1990s, many ITV companies broadcast job vacancies and related information during overnight periods and the service was provided by broadcasting the relevant ORACLE page in-vision. [[ITV Central|Central]] was the first company to do this, beginning in April 1986<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdVmJhMC7U Central Continuity and Adverts + closedown 31 March 1986]</ref> with [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] following in January 1987. Initially, the pages were broadcast for an hour after the end of regular programming but from April 1987, Central broadcast ''Jobfinder'' throughout their overnight downtime<ref>[https://identcentral.co.uk/idents/itv/itv-regions/central/more-central/ Ident Central β More Central]</ref> with [[ITV Tyne Tees|Tyne Tees]] doing the same from November 1987. By late 1988, all of ITV was broadcasting a {{nowrap|24-hour}} service and many other companies, including Granada, HTV and TSW, introduced their own ''Jobfinder'' service at this point, broadcasting the pages between 4am and 5am, later 4:30am to 5:30am. By the late-1990s, the vacancies were no longer transmitted in a teletext format and by the mid-2000s all of the ''Jobfinder'' services had ended, with Yorkshire being the last region to end its ''Jobfinder'' programme.
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