() is a Welsh television magazine and

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programme. Broadcast live on

S4C 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 ...

weeknights at 7:00 pm, it features topical stories and studio guests. Various reporters also assist with subject-specific presenting, both in the studio and on location, or through filmed segments. Its afternoon sister programme is called ().

Background

was first broadcast on

on Monday 17 September 1990, made by production company Agenda (which became Tinopolis) in

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. It was replaced by a similar programme, (), in January 2002. returned on 1 March 2012, after Tinopolis won a £5.1 million contract. The show is broadcast from Tinopolis's

Llanelli Llanelli ("St Elli's Parish"; ) is a market town and the largest community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carma ...

studio. In May 2012, they re-opened their studio in

Caernarfon Caernarfon (; ) is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor ...

(which they had recently closed) following complaints that the programme was too Llanelli-based. The Caernarfon studio created content about North and Mid-Wales.

Format

In its original run, was broadcast at 6pm each weekday but since its return it is shown between 7pm and 7:30pm on Mondays to Fridays. Broadcasts are live, with a variety of guests chatting with the presenters in the Llanelli studio. Several reporters provide short items of interest from around Wales.

Presenters

It was originally presented by

Angharad Mair Angharad Mair (born March 1960) is a Welsh television presenter; she is the lead presenter on the nightly S4C Welsh language magazine programme, ''Heno'' and the BBC Wales news programme, ''Wales Today''. Background She was born in Carmarthen, S ...

, Sian Thomas, Iestyn Garlick and Glynog Davies (now a producer of the programme). Mair and Thomas are still (2015) regular presenters.

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