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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 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 2024, S4C had an average of 118 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-air in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S4C2
S4C 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 Senedd at the Senedd building. 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 ONdigital to use for their service, meaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newyddion
''Newyddion S4C'' (''S4C News'') is a Welsh language, Welsh-language news programme broadcast on S4C and produced by BBC Cymru Wales, covering national and international news stories from a Welsh perspective. History Welsh-language television news on the BBC first aired on 6pm on 16 March 1956. Under the name ''Tele-Newyddion'', this fifteen-minute bulletin was broadcast as an opt-out on the Wenvoe transmitting station, Wenvoe, Sutton Coldfield transmitting station, Sutton Coldfield and Holme Moss transmitting station, Holme Moss transmitters, in the style of a newsreel, presenting news items from the past weeks at the time of broadcast. Before S4C started broadcasting in November 1982, the BBC's main Welsh-language TV news programme was ''Heddiw'' (''Today''), which ran from 1961 to 1982. Initially shown in a lunchtime slot on certain transmitters around the UK, in later years, ''Heddiw'' moved to an early-evening slot in Wales following ''Nationwide (TV programme), Nationwid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
