''Cardiff News'' (branded on air as ''#CardiffNews'') is a local television news and current affairs service, broadcast between 2014 and 2017, covering

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

. Produced by

Made in Cardiff Local TV Cardiff (typeset as LOCAL TV Cardiff and formally known as Cardiff TV and Made in Cardiff) is a local television station serving Cardiff and surrounding areas. The station is owned and operated by Local Television Limited and formed p ...

, the news operation was based at studios in Cardiff city centre.

Overview

''Cardiff News'' originally aired as a twice-nightly programme called ''Hello Cardiff'', focusing exclusively on news stories from the

area, as opposed to the national news services provided by

BBC Cymru Wales BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Wales. It is one of the four BBC national regions, alongside the BBC English Regions, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Scotland. Established in 1964, BBC Cymru Wales is ...

and

ITV Cymru Wales ITV Cymru Wales, previously known as Harlech Television and HTV Wales, is the ITV franchise for Wales. The new separate licence began on 1 January 2014, replacing the long-serving dual franchise region serving Wales and the West of England. Li ...

. The programme was relaunched in February 2016 as ''Cardiff's Local News'' and moved to new timeslots of 6pm and 9pm, followed two months later by a rebrand to ''#CardiffNews''. In July 2016, the station reported it claimed a weekly audience of nearly 100,000 viewers for ''#CardiffNews''.Made in Cardiff gains ground
Broadcast Now, 15 July 2016 In February 2017, the weekday programme was axed with shorter updates airing during the live magazine programme, ''The Crunch Cardiff'', each weeknight from 6-8pm. An hour-long weekly review programme continued to air on Saturdays and Sundays at 7pm. In November 2017, following a restructuring of the Made Television network's operations, ''The Crunch Cardiff'' was axed along with all local programming. A replacement programme, ''Made TV News'' – combining local and national news stories – was produced from Leeds. This was axed in February 2018 in favour of ''Cardiff Live'', a half-hour block of pre-recorded news, sport and features produced by local videojournalists. Presenters and reporters for ''Hello Cardiff'' and ''#CardiffNews'' included Jeff Collins, Laura Allen, Siriol Griffiths, Sian Angel, Matthew Harris, Rosalie Miller and Daniel Wilson.

References

External links

Made in Cardiff
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardiff News 2014 British television series debuts 2017 British television series endings Television shows set in Cardiff Welsh television shows Welsh television news shows