teletext.al52.com is the website of Nizhegorodsky Teletext LLC (ООО «Нижегородский телетекст»), a Nizhny Novgorod company that prepared and broadcast a television magazine of the same name: pages of advertising and information embedded in the local TV signal[1]. The office was listed at the address: 603141, Nizhny Novgorod, Kashchenko, phones (8312) 66-00-79, 28-35-34[2]. The site was listed in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section)[1]; the last snapshot in the web archive is dated 22 March 2018[3].

What the site offered

As the home page stated, «"Nizhegorodsky Teletext" is watched daily by more than 30,000 residents of the city and region»[1] — by 2016 the wording had grown to «more than 500,000 residents of the city and region»[2]. The site described the teletext as a «television magazine of 700 pages in volume», broadcast on Nizhny Novgorod airwaves daily from 7:00 to 23:00 on VHF TV channel 4 (channels НТР and NNTV were mentioned)[1][2]. A teletext page was presented as «alphanumeric information, 24 lines of 40 characters» (later — 22 lines of 38 characters), with Russian and English letters, pseudographics, and coloring of characters and background in seven colors[1][2].

Advertising orders were accepted around the clock via the 006 service or by phone at 66-00-26 (from 9:00 to 18:00) in the early version of the site[1]; by 2016 this had been supplemented by orders via "Mobil-Telecom" at phone number 39-44-44, subscriber "TELETEXT"[2]. Rates for additional services in the 2016 snapshot: artistic and graphic layout — 50 rubles/page, information update — 50 rubles/page and 5 rubles/line, additional link — 30 rubles/week or 100 rubles/month; the site also advertised website and online store creation and maintenance, hosting, and domain registration in the com, ru, and net, info zones[2]. The developer listed was Almadesta LLC (ООО «Алмадеста»), 603107, Nizhny Novgorod, ul. Marshala Golovanova 19-44, phones +7 (8312) 57-33-64, 63-50-34, website www.al52.com[2]. The editorial contact e-mail was teletext@kis.ru[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section)[1]. According to Counter.nn.ru, in the surviving counter samples for teletext.al52.com a rating of 48.0 was recorded, with no votes for it recorded in our data[2]. The first snapshot of the site in the web archive dates to January 2003[1].

How it closed

The last recorded snapshot of the home page in the web archive is dated 22 March 2018[3]; no later versions of the site have survived in the materials. In this snapshot the page still carried a holiday greeting and the full range of teletext services, with no signs of the business winding down[3] — the materials contain no other information on the fate of the domain or the reasons the site ceased operation.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2016 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2018 (archive)