Editing BBC Red Button (section)

=== Partial closure (2020) ===
After nearly 21 years of service, the BBC announced in 2019 that due to financial cuts, the text services on Red Button on all platforms would be removed from 30 January 2020. The video services, used during events like [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] and the [[2028 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]], however, would continue.

On 29 January 2020, the BBC announced their suspension of the switch-off due to protests, one day before the service was due to have started being phased out. This announcement comes following a petition, organised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK (NFBUK),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nfbuk.org/save-the-bbc-red-button/|title=Save the BBC Red Button Teletext Service!|date=22 January 2020|website=NFBUK|language=en-GB|access-date=29 January 2020|archive-date=28 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128231034/https://www.nfbuk.org/save-the-bbc-red-button/|url-status=live}}</ref> which was submitted to the BBC and Downing Street.<ref name=":1" /> The petition expresses NFBUK's concerns with the switch-off, citing that the service is "vital for visually impaired, deaf, disabled and older people, as well as many other people who want to find out information independently in an easy, convenient and accessible format, who are not online." They're concerned that the withdrawal of the service would leave many already vulnerable people into further isolation and marginalisation from society. NFBUK states they cannot understand how the BBC can meet their obligations set in the [[BBC Charter|Royal Charter]] following the cut of the Red Button Teletext service.