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Doing numbers
Published 4 August 2023
It’s all relative when it comes to the value of an ITV contract
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Published 26 December 2022
A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022
The partnership begins
Published 1 November 2022
With S4C on the horizon, the controller of BBC Wales assess its chance of success
Mae pobl ym mhob man yn paratoi ar gyfer golwg newydd ar Gymru
Published 1 November 2022
Pre-launch print advertisements for S4C
A development for HTV
Published 7 March 2022
The Wales and West contractor’s new studios have opened
Welcome to the exciting world of ONdigital
Published 18 February 2022
Welcome to the future and your new ONdigital digibox
Croeso i S4C
Published 3 August 2021
Do S4C have a copy of their own opening night? Some suggest they don’t. We do.
The birth of a channel
Published 2 August 2021
The first brand new national TV channel in almost 20 years has arrived
The fall of Teledu Cymru
Published 12 August 2020
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
Tonight’s BBCtv… and S4C… in 1986
Published 25 April 2018
A look at what was on BBC Television and S4C on Friday 25 April 1986
Christmas Day on television… in 2007
Published 24 December 2017
A look at what was on television on Christmas Day 2007
Wales in the Eighties
Published 3 December 2015
BBC Wales looks at the principality in the 1980s – a decade of unemployment, depression and Superted
One service, two areas, three audiences
Published 12 January 2015
The trials of covering Wales and the west of England
Cutting remarks
Published 20 October 2010
Given the pro-BBC lobby’s near-meltdown at the merest thought of yesterday’s licence fee settlement (not only frozen but with additional expenditure tacked on as well), it’s rather perplexing to still…
Frozen asset
Published 19 October 2010
It’s true that the BBC has now managed to secure licence fee funding for another six years, but only the most pessimistic would have thought anything otherwise under the circumstances;…
The S4/C problem
Published 10 September 2010
Now is not a good time for Welsh television broadcaster S4/C, which has just been given an ultimatum by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to draw up a financial plan for…
A Tribute to Owen Edwards
Published 9 September 2010
Nigel Stapley remembers the man who founded S4C
The slow death of S4C?
Published 19 August 2010
S4C appears to be in trouble. What has happened in Cardiff – and Wales – to scupper the broadcasting success story of the 1980s?
Channel 4’s own goal
Published 11 June 2009
Broadcast Now: Five wins final Freeview HD slot Broadcast Now: Freeview HD plans in doubt Whilst bidding for something like a slot on the new Freeview HD multiplex, the very,…
The future according to ITV
Published 17 October 2008
ITV, Channel 4 and BBC to launch HD channels on Freeview next year We’re told that the future of broadcasting is high definition, yet ITV’s HD proposal for Freeview contains…