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List Of Welsh Television Channels
This is a list of television channels that broadcast in Welsh language. Current channels * S4C: general entertainment channel, news, documentaries, children's programmes, dramas, sport and films broadcasting in Wales. * Cyw: Children's channel on satellite with programmes in Welsh, with a range of home-produced and foreign dubbed programmes. *Bay TV Swansea: private television station in the Swansea Bay area. Mainly broadcasts in English, but has Welsh-language programming. Previous channels * S4C 2: Welsh parliament channel, broadcasting in both Welsh and English between September 1999 and December 2010. * S4C Clirlun was a high-definition service simulcasting S4C's main channel between 30 April 2010 and July 2012. See also *List of Welsh-language programmes *Television in Wales * List of television channels in Celtic languages External links S4C website {de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay TV Swansea
That's Swansea Bay is a local television station which broadcasts to the Swansea Bay area of West Wales via the Kilvey Hill transmitting station. The station went on air in July 2016 making it the second local television station in Wales after Made in Cardiff. Bay TV Swansea is based near the University of Wales Trinity Saint David's primary campus in Swansea. It was the 21st local television channel to be launched in the United Kingdom. The channel provides news, sport and entertainment programming to viewers on all major television platforms and provides some of its output without charge to the BBC. Bay TV Swansea was awarded its broadcasting licence from the Office of Communications The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. Ofcom has wide-ranging powers acros ... (Ofcom) in January 2014. Programmes include sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea Bay
Swansea Bay ( cy, Bae Abertawe) is a bay on the southern coast of Wales. The River Neath, River Tawe, River Afan, River Kenfig and Clyne River flow into the bay. Swansea Bay and the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel experience a large tidal range. The shipping ports in Swansea Bay are Swansea Docks, Port Talbot Docks and Briton Ferry wharfs. Each stretch of beach within the bay has its own individual name: * Aberavon Beach * Baglan Bay * Jersey Marine Beach * Swansea Beach * Mumbles Beach Oyster trade Oyster fishing was once an important industry in Swansea Bay, employing 600 people at its height in the 1860s. However, overfishing, disease and pollution had all but wiped out the oyster population by 1920. In 2005, plans were announced to reintroduce the Oyster farming industry. Pollution For the last two decades of the 20th century, the bay was blighted by pollution, partly from the surrounding heavy industry and partly from sewerage outlets being sited at inappropr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S4C 2
S4C Dau ( cy, Sianel Pedwar Cymru Dau, meaning ''Channel Four Wales Two'', formerly branded S4C2) was a free-to-air British television station owned by S4C which, until 2010, broadcast coverage of the National Assembly for Wales at the Senedd. It was also used for extended coverage of events shown on the main S4C service, such as the National Eisteddfod of Wales and Royal Welsh Show. History Launch When the UK government was planning digital terrestrial television in the late 1990s, each of the existing analogue broadcasters were allocated half a multiplex of capacity each. Each multiplex has capacity to carry multiple television stations. As one of the existing analogue broadcasters, S4C were allocated half of multiplex A and decided to use their gifted capacity to broadcast two stations in Wales; ''S4C Digidol'', a partial simulcast of their analogue television station and ''S4C2'', a new service. Outside of Wales, they opted to sell their capacity to pay-TV broadcaster ON ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S4C Clirlun
S4C (, ''Sianel Pedwar Cymru'', meaning ''Channel Four Wales'') is a Welsh language free-to-air public broadcast television channel. Launched on 1 November 1982, it was the first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience. S4C's headquarters are based in Carmarthen, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David's creative and digital centre, Yr Egin. It also has regional offices in Caernarfon and Cardiff. As of 2019–20, S4C had an average of 101 employees. S4C is the fourth-oldest terrestrial television channel in Wales after BBC One, ITV and BBC Two. As with Channel 4 (which launched the next day in the rest of the UK), S4C commissions all of its programmes from independent producers. BBC Cymru Wales produces programmes for S4C as part of its public service remit, including the news service ''Newyddion''. From its launch until 2010, S4C also carried English-language programming acquired from Channel 4, which could not be received over-the-ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Welsh-language Programmes
Wales has both radio and television channels in the Welsh language. This page lists some notable programmes transmitted on them. Television programmes Television programmes originally made in the Welsh language or first shown only in Wales. * '' 04 Wal'' * '' 35 Awr'' * '' 35 Diwrnod'' * '' 100 Lle'' * '' Adre'' * ''BANG'' * '' Byw Celwydd'' * '' Byw yn yr Ardd'' * ''Con Passionate'' * ''Cowbois ac Injans'' * '' C'mon Midffild'' * ''Caerdydd'' * '' Cariad@iaith:love4language'' - broadcast since 2004 * ''Calennig'' * '' Craith'' * '' Cwpwrdd dillad'' * '' Dal Ati'' * ''Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol'' * Glan Hafren * '' Gofod'' * '' Ffermio'' * '' Fideo 9'' - music programme broadcast from 1988 to 1992. * '' Hacio'' * ''Heno'' * '' Hip neu Sgip?'' * '' Jacpot'' * '' Jonathan'' - Jonathan Davies show broadcast since 2004 * ''Llanw'' * ''Newyddion'' * '' Ochr 1'' * '' Pam Fi Duw'' * '' PARCH'' * ''Pobol y Cwm'' - soap opera transmitted since 1974. * '' Pwy 'dy Pwy'' * ''Rownd a R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Wales
Television in Wales began in 1952. Initially, all programmes were in English with occasional Welsh language programmes. In 1982 Welsh language channel S4C was launched. The digital switchover happened in 2009-2010 and S4C became an exclusively Welsh language channel. History Initial broadcasting Television in the UK started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, but did not arrive in Wales until the opening of the Wenvoe transmitter in August 1952. Initially, all programmes were in the English language, although under the leadership of Welsh director and controller Alun Oldfield-Davies, occasional Welsh language programmes were broadcast during closed periods, replacing the test card. In 1958, responsibility for programming in Wales fell to Television Wales and the West, although Welsh language broadcasting was mainly served by the Manchester-based Granada company, producing about an hour a week. BBC Cymru Wales The launch of BBC Cymru Wales (BBC Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Television Channels In Celtic Languages
Celtic-language television channels are available in any countries, worlds, places, etc. Many speakers of languages like any others to the television channels and languages such as Welsh and Breton have demanded television channels in their own languages for many years and have been successful, with Scottish Gaelic speakers joining them with the launch of in 2008, but languages like Manx and Cornish still don't have a full-time television channel. Irish language Current channels * ( ga, Teilifís na Gaeilge Ceathair, lit=Television in Irish Four): channel based in the Republic of Ireland and broadcasting to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. has been successful in broadcasting Irish and increasing Irish speakers even though it has a limited budget. is aimed at young speakers of the language with youthful programmes. is funded by advertising and the Government of Ireland with an annual budget of €40 million. * : Irish-language children's channel broadcasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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