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children's television block from

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 ...

(Channel 4 Wales), which launched on 23 June 2008. Primarily aimed at children in the 3 to 6 age group, Cyw operates from Monday to Friday from 6am to 12pm, and includes programmes which have been previously broadcast by S4C in the ''Planed Plant Bach'' (Little Children's Planet) slot, such as "Bla Bla Blewog (Ha Ha Hairies) Sam Tân (

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'') as well as shows being transmitted for the first time in Welsh such as ''Dafydd a Bitw ac Owain a Henri'', ''Heini'', ''Y Brodyr Coala'' (''

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Rapsgaliwn ''Rapsgaliwn'' is an S4C programme for pre-school children. It is shown on the Welsh-language children's television programming strand, ''Cyw''. References

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Programmes

Current programmes

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Cyw a’i Ffrindiau Cyw (Welsh language, Welsh for "Chick", ) is the name of a Welsh-language children's television block from S4C (Channel 4 Wales), which launched on 23 June 2008. Primarily aimed at children in the 3 to 6 age group, Cyw operates from Monday to ...

'' *''Blociau Rhif'' (Welsh translation of

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) *'' Cywion Bach'' *''(Welsh translation of Abadas)'' *''Peppa (Welsh translation of

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)'' *''Blero'n Mynd i Ocido'' ''(Welsh translation of

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Upcoming programmes

Former programmes

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)'' *''Y Dywysoges Fach (Welsh translation of Little Princess)'' *''Bach a Mawr (Welsh translation of

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Channel presentation

Idents and graphics

The channel logo was built of the word Cyw in the Elementary SF Sans font, the C being in red, the y in yellow and the w in blue. Cyw is a non-commercial block, in a different format as its parent, S4C.

Mascots

The channel features 6 characters, created as part of the channel's global identity, which are used as short animated bumpers into programmes. The network mascots are a lion named Llew ("Lion"https://www.gweiadur.com/en/Pawb (registration required)), an elephant named Plwmp ("Direct/Blunt" or "Plump"), a small

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-coloured bird named Deryn ("Bird"), a giraffe named Jangl, a bulldog named Bolgi ("Glutton", and a play on the Welsh word for dog), and Cyw ("Chick"), a small female chick. A three legged dog named Triog would later join in 2018. On October 4, 2018, Hoho Entertainment signed a co-production deal with S4C to create a localised version of Cyw's segments, titled ''Chickpea and Friends'', with the Cyw character being renamed as then titular Chickpea. This series' VOD rights were later pre-sold to Canadian streaming site Kidoodle.TV in most countries and

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in China. Cyw's characters were originally from Planed Plant Bach before it got replaced by Cyw.

Presenters

Presenters currently are Huw Owen, Cati Rhys, Griff Daniels and Elin Haf.

The future

In a press release, S4C announced that the plan would be eventually for Cyw to launch as a standalone channel. This was believed likely to occur during the switchover to

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and DTT in the UK, which took place between 2007 and 2012. However, the launch never took place, and Cyw still remains as a block on

to this day. ''

Stwnsh (, ) is a strand of Welsh-language children's television programming, aimed at children between the ages of seven and thirteen. was launched on Monday 26 April 2010, replacing the former Welsh-language children's strand, (). is broadcast on ...

'' has since replaced ''

Planed Plant ''Planed Plant'' ("Children's Planet") was a strand of Welsh-language television programming for children broadcast by S4C. It first aired on 1 November 1982. Background ''Planed Plant'' included imported animated programmes such as ''Yu-Gi-O ...

'', providing two hours' worth of programmes, every weekday evening.

External links

References

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