Abstract: The invention relates to a television set provided with a alphanumerical display device for displaying on the television screen (6), as an alternative to the received video picture, another complete picture constituted by alphanumerical data which can comprise all the letters in the alphabet, the numbers from 0 to 9 and graphic symbols.The invention also relates to a receiver provided with color picture display means for displaying, following a control from the user, a calendar data constituted by at least one of the said colour pictures and composed of alphanumerical characters.The invention also relates to a receiver for receiving radioelectric signals which is provided with an alphanumerical character display device in which the tuning of a radioelectric signal takes place by means of a message from the user composed of alphanumerical characters and representative of the station which transmits the said radioelectric signal.