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S4C Analogue Final Closedown 31st March 2010
Hugh Napier Launch - 11.5.12 - ITV / BBC / S4C News Reports
S4C - Lines Animation [HD]
S4C: Problems (Part 1)
Pen Talar - clipolwg gwreiddiol S4C
Election 2011 - S4C Etholiad 2011 titles
Rhydian on Bwrw'r Bar, S4C
Sŵnami - Ar Goll - Bandit s4c - Swnami
Badger Report S4C Y Byd ar Bedwar 17 Apr 2012 Pt 1
S4C continuity. 1997
Gareth Pearson plays Blue Smoke on S4C
[S4C] Snipe4Cancer (Read Description)

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S4C Analogue Final Closedown 31st March 2010
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  • Published: 30 Mar 2010
  • Duration: 3:26
  • Updated: 09 May 2012
Author: remlap
S4C Analogue Final Closedown 31st March 2010 with a Rock Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Continuity by Alun Ceri Jones translation provided by dafydd on Digital Spy Forums Thank you!
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/S4C Analogue Final Closedown 31st March 2010
Hugh Napier Launch - 11.5.12 - ITV / BBC / S4C News Reports
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  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • Duration: 7:07
  • Updated: 15 May 2012
Author: frwhrmarketing
May 11th 2012 - ITV / BBC / S4C News Reports covering the launch of Quarry Hunslet 'Hugh Napier' at Harbour Station Porthmadog, and the subsequent trip to Beddgelert.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Hugh Napier Launch - 11.5.12 - ITV / BBC / S4C News Reports
S4C - Lines Animation [HD]
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  • Published: 13 May 2012
  • Duration: 2:21
  • Updated: 13 May 2012
Author: magicgeezer
Croeso i Cymru...
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/S4C - Lines Animation [HD]
S4C: Problems (Part 1)
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  • Published: 03 Jun 2011
  • Duration: 4:16
  • Updated: 15 May 2012
Author: ideadragon
This is the first video of Wales Shark's epic attempt to portray and explain in a facetious manner the problems with S4C, and Welsh-language enterprises, as the Shark sees it. By personifying Wales Shark in this way, I distance myself from the opinions herein, silly as they are.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/S4C: Problems (Part 1) "The Schedule"
Pen Talar - clipolwg gwreiddiol S4C
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  • Published: 11 Sep 2010
  • Duration: 3:58
  • Updated: 28 Nov 2011
Author: quixoticquisling
Pen Talar - clipolwg gwreiddiol S4C pentalarpedia.com
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Pen Talar - clipolwg gwreiddiol S4C
Election 2011 - S4C Etholiad 2011 titles
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  • Published: 08 May 2011
  • Duration: 1:56
  • Updated: 14 Oct 2011
Author: tvlivevideo
Presented by Dewi Llywd in the Senedd studio, with help from Vaughan Roderick and Arwyn Jones. Broadcast overnight from 22:00 until 04:30, resuming during the afternoon and evening on Friday
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Election 2011 - S4C Etholiad 2011 titles
Rhydian on Bwrw'r Bar, S4C
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  • Published: 09 Nov 2008
  • Duration: 9:59
  • Updated: 20 Mar 2012
Author: Jed152
Rhydian on Bwrw'r Bar, S4C on 7th November 2008. Welsh with English subtitles.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Rhydian on Bwrw'r Bar, S4C
Sŵnami - Ar Goll - Bandit s4c - Swnami
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  • Published: 29 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 3:32
  • Updated: 12 May 2012
Author: meimwj
Sŵnami - Ar Goll - Bandit s4c Gerwyn Murray Huw Ynyr Ifan Ywain Ifan Davies Tom Ayres
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Sŵnami - Ar Goll - Bandit s4c - Swnami
Badger Report S4C Y Byd ar Bedwar 17 Apr 2012 Pt 1
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  • Published: 18 Apr 2012
  • Duration: 12:30
  • Updated: 19 Apr 2012
Author: BrianMayCom
REPORT IN WELSH concerning farmers taking matters into own hands and shooting badgers. Welsh current affairs programme Y Byd ar Bedwar's investigation into whether farmers frustrated by the Welsh government's stance on TB are taking the law into their own hands and killing badgers. Following the Welsh Government's U-turn on badger culling in North Pembrokeshire, the TV programme heard from farmers who claim their livelihoods are under threat due to the policy change. During the programme, screened 17 April, former rural affairs minister Elin Jones warned that, in her opinion. scrapping plans for a badger cull could prompt frustrated farmers to take matters into their own hands. Ms Jones criticised the government for performing a U-turn, saying farmers had been let down, also tells how she received personal threats from animal rights campaigners when she was working on the plan to cull badgers and was forced to seek police protection.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Badger Report S4C Y Byd ar Bedwar 17 Apr 2012 Pt 1
S4C continuity. 1997
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  • Published: 21 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 4:50
  • Updated: 13 Jan 2012
Author: morrismagic08
Some proper welsh S4C here. Don't ask me what their saying because i havn't a clue!
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/S4C continuity. 1997
Gareth Pearson plays Blue Smoke on S4C
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  • Published: 01 Jan 2012
  • Duration: 2:04
  • Updated: 12 May 2012
Author: garethpearsonmusic
Gareth playing Blue Smoke on the Welsh S4C language entertainment show Noson Lawen which was aired on New Years Eve, 2011. The programme was recorded in September 2011. Happy New Year from Gareth Pearson Music.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Gareth Pearson plays Blue Smoke on S4C
[S4C] Snipe4Cancer (Read Description)
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  • Published: 18 Mar 2012
  • Duration: 0:55
  • Updated: 16 May 2012
Author: Sniping4Cancer
If you hit a clip send link through either youtube and the email! snipeforcancer@hotmail.co.uk as i said the aim of this channel is to get it partnered then all proceeds will go to a charity that has helped me so well if you want to check them out there website is here www.teenagecancertrust.org
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/[S4C] Snipe4Cancer (Read Description)
Sniping 4 Cancer (S4C) - Black Ops 2 Info
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  • Published: 20 Mar 2012
  • Duration: 9:10
  • Updated: 07 May 2012
Author: ItsWoggy
Ben - www.youtube.com S4C Channel - www.youtube.com S4C Video - www.youtube.com Please subscribe to Ben and Sniping 4 Cancer and show your support because Ben and a couple of he's friends are trying to get partnership on Sniping 4 Cancer and any money they receive from the channel or through donations will be donated to a charity close to he's heart Teenage Cancer Trust. Please put S4C in your clan tag to show your support as well and any clips you hit send them to Ben because he is going to be doing a S4C Community Montage to help take he's mind of things while he is in hospital for 6 Months.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/Sniping 4 Cancer (S4C) - Black Ops 2 Info
6 Nations 2012 Promo for S4C
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  • Published: 23 Jan 2012
  • Duration: 0:48
  • Updated: 20 Mar 2012
Author: S4Carlein
S4C's advert for the 2012 RBS 6 Nations
http://web.archive.org./web/20120519072201/http://wn.com/6 Nations 2012 Promo for S4C
  • S4C Analogue Final Closedown 31st March 2010...3:26
  • Hugh Napier Launch - 11.5.12 - ITV / BBC / S4C News Reports...7:07
  • S4C - Lines Animation [HD]...2:21
  • S4C: Problems (Part 1) "The Schedule"...4:16
  • Pen Talar - clipolwg gwreiddiol S4C...3:58
  • Election 2011 - S4C Etholiad 2011 titles...1:56
  • Rhydian on Bwrw'r Bar, S4C...9:59
  • Sŵnami - Ar Goll - Bandit s4c - Swnami...3:32
  • Badger Report S4C Y Byd ar Bedwar 17 Apr 2012 Pt 1...12:30
  • S4C continuity. 1997...4:50
  • Gareth Pearson plays Blue Smoke on S4C...2:04
  • [S4C] Snipe4Cancer (Read Description)...0:55
  • Sniping 4 Cancer (S4C) - Black Ops 2 Info...9:10
  • 6 Nations 2012 Promo for S4C...0:48
S4C Analogue Final Closedown 31st March 2010 with a Rock Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Continuity by Alun Ceri Jones translation provided by dafydd on Digital Spy Forums Thank you!
3:26
S4C Ana­logue Final Close­down 31st March 2010
7:07
Hugh Napi­er Launch - 11.5.12 - ITV / BBC / S4C News Re­ports
2:21
S4C - Lines An­i­ma­tion [HD]
4:16
S4C: Prob­lems (Part 1) "The Sched­ule"
3:58
Pen Talar - clipol­wg gwrei­d­di­ol S4C
1:56
Elec­tion 2011 - S4C Etho­li­ad 2011 ti­tles
9:59
Rhy­di­an on Bwrw'r Bar, S4C
3:32
Sŵnami - Ar Goll - Ban­dit s4c - Swna­mi
12:30
Bad­ger Re­port S4C Y Byd ar Bed­war 17 Apr 2012 Pt 1
4:50
S4C con­ti­nu­ity. 1997
2:04
Gareth Pear­son plays Blue Smoke on S4C
0:55
[S4C] Snipe4­Cancer (Read De­scrip­tion)
9:10
Snip­ing 4 Can­cer (S4C) - Black Ops 2 Info
0:48
6 Na­tions 2012 Promo for S4C
1:42
Bat­tle­field Heroes | [S4c]'s way to lvl 30 [PAR­O­DY]
5:40
Owain Williams Showreel (Tag, S4C)
0:54
Hwb — Trail­er for S4C's brand new se­ries for Welsh Learn­ers
4:27
Wales U21 2-0 Bosnia Herze­gov­ina U21 S4C High­lights 11/10/09
5:00
S4C SCHOOLS - WELSH-LAN­GUAGE JUNC­TION - CIRCA 1990-1991
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ITV SCHOOLS ON S4C - LONG JUNC­TION - CIRCA 1990
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S4C's new chief ex­ec­u­tive Ian Jones un­veiled the Welsh lan­guage chan­nel's re­vamped sched­ule


  • Bilingual road sign near Wrexham Central station in 2009. The language has greatly increased its prominence since the creation of the television channel S4C in November 1982, which broadcasts 70% of Channel 4's programming along with a majority of Welsh language shows[22] during peak viewing hours.
    Creative Commons / Adrian Pingstone

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BBC News Mae S4C wedi penodi pedwar Comisiynydd Cynnwys newydd. Fe fydd y pedwar yn gyfrifol am gomisiynu cynnwys a gwasanaethau digidol aml-lwyfan ar gyfer y Sianel. Mae Sioned Roberts,...(size: 1.2Kb)
BBC News Mae S4C wedi penodi pedwar Comisiynydd Cynnwys newydd. Fe fydd y pedwar yn gyfrifol am gomisiynu cynnwys a gwasanaethau digidol aml-lwyfan ar gyfer y Sianel. Mae Sioned Roberts,...(size: 1.2Kb)
BBC News Viewer complaints about changes to the S4C schedule have prompted concern from members of the Welsh language channel's authority. The quality of the nightly series Heno was one of the key...(size: 1.3Kb)
BBC News First Minister Carwyn Jones says he will set out his concerns about changes to BBC Wales and S4C when he meets the chairman of the BBC Trust. Cuts to BBC Wales are...(size: 1.1Kb)
BBC News The new chief executive of S4C has promised that the...(size: 0.4Kb)
Digital Spy Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has secured rights to broadcast live and exclusive coverage of the FA Cup clash between Wrexham and Brighton next Tuesday. Coverage of the third round replay at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground will be shown on S4C on January 17, starting at 7.30pm. The match will air live...(size: 4.5Kb)
BBC News If 2010 was S4C's "annus horribilis", 2011 was more a year of slow recovery and attempting to come to terms with a future which will be far tougher financially. The channel...(size: 1.2Kb)
BBC News The head of the S4C Authority has admitted that views given by the channel's staff during a review of its working practices were "challenging". Huw Jones said it was important that...(size: 1.2Kb)
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S4C (, meaning ''Channel 4 Wales''), currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is (after BBC One, ITV, BBC Two and Sky1) the fifth oldest British television channel (Channel 4 was launched in the rest of the United Kingdom one day later).

The channel - initially broadcast on analogue television - was bilingual (Welsh and English) with most of its English-language programming being either simultaneous or deferred broadcasts of Channel 4 programmes (analogue reception of which was unavailable in most of Wales). When digital television arrived several years later, a second channel was added: a 100% Welsh-language service, branded (S4C Digital).

The analogue version of S4C closed on 31 March 2010, when the Wenvoe transmitter completed the digital switchover. After this, S4C Digidol became the default S4C channel available across Wales available to Welsh viewers on cable, satellite and Freeview, broadcasting only in the Welsh language.

A high definition service called S4C Clirlun (clear picture), simulcasting S4C Digidol, began broadcasting on 30 April 2010 on Freeview channel 53 in Wales. By the end of 2012, S4C plans to be producing all of its programmes in high definition.

Pre-history

Before the launch of S4C, Welsh speakers had been served by occasional programmes in Welsh broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and HTV Cymru Wales (the ITV franchise in Wales), usually at off-peak or inconvenient times. This was unsatisfactory for Welsh speakers, who saw the arrangement as a sop, and also an annoyance for non-Welsh speakers, who found the English programmes seen in the rest of the UK often rescheduled or not transmitted at all.

In 1962 the ITV network had created a licence area for North and West Wales, which was awarded to ''Wales (West and North) Limited''. This traded as Teledu Cymru and provided significant levels of Welsh-language programming. However, problems with transmission infrastructure and poor market research led to financial difficulties within two years and the station was taken over by its neighbour Television Wales and West.

During the 1970s, Welsh language activists had campaigned for a TV service in the language, which already had its own radio station, BBC Radio Cymru. Both the Conservative and Labour parties promised a Welsh-language fourth channel, if elected to government in the 1979 General Election. Shortly after the Conservatives won a majority in the election, the new home secretary Willie Whitelaw decided against a Welsh fourth channel, and suggested that, except for an occasional opt-out, the service should be the same as that offered in the rest of the UK. This led to acts of civil disobedience, including refusals to pay the television licence fee, thereby running the risk of prosecution or even a prison sentence, and sit-ins in BBC and HTV studios. Some took more extreme measures, including attacking television transmitters in Welsh-speaking areas. In 1980, the former president of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans, threatened to go on hunger strike if the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher didn't honour its commitment to provide a Welsh language TV service. The channel started broadcasting on 1 November 1982, the night before Channel 4's opening. S4C appointed its first female CEO, Iona Jones in 2005.

Programming

S4C's remit is to provide a service which features a wide range of programmes in the Welsh language. Like Channel 4, S4C does not produce programmes of its own; instead, it commissions programmes from BBC Cymru and independent producers (although the quantity purchased from ITV Wales has greatly reduced since the early years of S4C), and it has particularly developed a reputation for commissioning cartoons, such as ''SuperTed'', ''Sam Tân'' (which became ''Fireman Sam'' in its English version on the BBC) and ''Shakespeare: The Animated Tales''. BBC Wales fulfills its public service requirement by producing programmes in Welsh, including , S4C's news bulletin, and a soap opera, , and providing them to S4C free of charge. It has also provided (or licensed) Welsh language versions of English language programmes e.g.: ''The Tweenies''. On the analogue service, S4C showed programmes produced for Channel 4 in the rest of the UK outside of peak hours (usually a few days later). These programmes were provided to S4C by Channel 4, free of charge.

To make them more accessible to English speakers, all Welsh language programming carries English subtitles on Teletext page 888, with Welsh subtitles on page 889. Both subtitle languages are also available on digital television platforms.

For speakers of English who are learning Welsh, certain programmes, particularly children's programmes and , carry subtitles on page 889 of Teletext, featuring Welsh subtitles with additional English translations in brackets next to more difficult Welsh language words.

TV movies produced for S4C have received some good foreign reviews; ''Hedd Wyn'' was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 1993 and ''Solomon & Gaenor'' was nominated in 1999.

Those who have no interest in Welsh-language television have been known to point their aerials at the nearest English transmitters to avoid S4C, as well as BBC Wales and ITV Wales. However, this practice dates back before the start of S4C in 1982, when Welsh-language programming was included on BBC1 Wales and HTV Wales. S4C sports programme ''Sgorio'' has been known to reverse this practice, with English football fans watching S4C as the only British terrestrial broadcaster of Spanish and German league football.

The S4C analogue signal also spilled over into southeast Ireland. In the past it was rebroadcast in a number of areas there on UHF terrestrial signals by so-called 'deflectors', however Channel 4 is now re-transmitted from satellite by the few remaining deflectors. Up until the 1990s, S4C was also carried by some Irish cable and MMDS providers before being replaced by Channel 4.

Up until 2009, S4C ran its own teletext service, Sbectel (, Welsh for "a peek" or "a glimpse", and a reference to an S4C schedule insert formerly included in the TV Times issues for the HTV Wales region. is also Welsh for "spectacles").

Digital channels

Following the switch off of analogue terrestrial signals on 31 March 2010, Wales became the first fully-digital nation in the UK with both S4C and Channel 4 now available to all homes. As a result, S4C now broadcasts solely in Welsh language and, as well as on Freeview in Wales, is available throughout Britain, Ireland and the rest of western Europe on Freesat and Sky. A review commissoned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in 2004 suggested that "S4C should operate a single core service after digital switchover".

In addition, S4C also operated a sister channel, S4C2 until 2010. It formerly broadcast coverage of the National Assembly for Wales when in session. The programme content was provided by the BBC who, from January 2010, now make it available online and via BBC Parliament. Like the main channel, S4C2 was available within Wales on Freeview and throughout the UK and Ireland on Freesat and Sky. S4C2 had two audio feeds, allowing viewers to select between an untranslated version and an English-only version where all Welsh spoken is translated into English. Delayed coverage of Assembly proceedings is now broadcast overnight on S4C's main channel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursday.

In addition to the analogue TV signal transmitted throughout Wales, S4C, along with United News and Media, owned the company S4C Digital Networks (SDN). SDN was awarded the UK-wide contract to provide half a digital multiplex worth of programming. The other half continues to belong to the broadcaster Channel Five.

On 27 April 2005 S4C sold its share of SDN to ITV plc for approximately £34 million, though it still has the half-multiplex as of right in Wales. ITV already owned some of SDN due to the consolidation of the ITV industry: Granada bought UNM's stake in SDN, and this was then incorporated into the united ITV plc.

In January 2007, S4C announced plans to launch a Welsh-language children's service. The new service, in the form of a programming bloc, launched on 23 June 2008. Under the name "Cyw" (), it brings together a wide range of programmes for nursery-age children, and S4C plans eventually to extend the service to include the "Stwnsh" strand for older children and a third service for teenagers and young people. The service currently airs on weekdays from 7am to 1.30pm on S4C.

Presentation

1982–1993

S4C's on-air appearance has always been a representation of the Welsh society and people, but this representation has changed several times. Initial idents featured clips from the natural landscapes of Wales with a basic logo animation and fanfare, with the logo forming as ''WALES4CYMRU''. In 1988, the ident changed to a computer-generated ident featuring an animation of the streamlined S4C logo, the colours of the logo were blue, green and red and the new font was based on Bodoni MT. Other idents featuring a weather vane with the S4C logo and a water based setting were used during the early 1990s.

1993–2006 Dragon Idents

In 1993, designed by Lambie-Nairn, a new series of idents debuted. The new idents featured inanimate objects such as Pink Kite, Sousaphone, Red Pencil, Spray Can, Village Pump/Standpipe, Red Carbon Dioxide Extinguisher, Dragon-Man/Shepherd, Scissors, Sport Screen, Red Pedal Bin, Red Scissors Tongs, Red Dragon Flag/Entertainment, Red Curly Light/Torch on the Metal Pole, Oxy-acetylene Cutting Torch, Electric Fan, Red Steam Iron, Extinguisher Gauge/Dial, Stapler, Computer Mouse, Shower Head, Garlic Press, Magic Top Hat, Lawn Mover, Loadspeaker, Egg Cup and Vacuum Cleaner representing a Dragon (specifically, Y Ddraig Goch, the Red Dragon depicted on the flag of Wales) usually by trying to fly or breathe fire like a dragon. These idents carried on through 2006 (with a logo change in 1995, featuring a new Futura Heavy font and a tilde representing the Dragon motif). The Dragon idents were retired in January 2007 alongside a wider relaunch of the channel.

Current Idents

In January 2007, S4C announced that their digital channels would be refreshed by a new corporate logo and brand. On 17 January, s4c.co.uk was updated with the new look, with S4C channels adopting the new look from 18 January. The S4C logo used since 1995, often stylised as "S4C~" because of the "dragon" design element which accompanied it, was replaced. The new design emphasises the channel's Welsh connection with the "C" for Cymru (Wales) separated from the "S4" (Channel 4) by a forward stroke. S4C2 is now seen on screen as S4C Dau (Two), and listed as S4C2 on the broadcaster's website and on Sky.

The theme of the new idents was the magnetism of the Welsh society, represented by many objects gathering in one place, such as shopping carts at a grocery store, and golf carts at a golf course. These idents were produced by Proud Creative, a London based design firm. In 2007, another new set of live-action idents debuted, featuring live rendered dynamic elements which react to the voice of the continuity announcers, an effect similar to the initial idents of BBC Four - but utilizing live-action footage instead of 3D rendered footage.

Channels

  • S4C
  • S4C Clirlun (high-definition)
  • Cyw (programming bloc on S4C)
  • Controversy

    Leaked internal reports in March 2010 showed that "over the 20-day period from February 15 to last Saturday, March 6, as many as 196 of the 890 programmes put out by S4C were rated as having zero viewers". An S4C spokesperson responded that 90% of these programmes were aimed at children, whose viewing isn't fully measured by BARB, the organisation that compiles television ratings in the UK, as they only take into account viewers aged four years and over. The remaining 10% consisted of repeats and daytime news bulletins.

    On 28 July 2010, S4C's chief executive Iona Jones left her post without explanation. Assembly members and Members of Parliament have asked for an independent investigation into the circumstances leading up to her departure. The S4C Authority has refused to comment any further on the matter and commissioned a review into how the broadcaster is governed in August 2010.

    Funding and regulation

    S4C is financed from its advertising revenue and a fixed annual grant from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), receiving £94m of funding in 2007. In addition, some Welsh-language programming (including and ) is produced by BBC Wales as part of the BBC's public service remit, and provided to S4C free of charge. S4C is controlled by the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority ( or ), an independent body unconnected to Ofcom which regulates other UK television channels such as ITV or Channel 4.

    From 2013, responsibility for funding S4C will begin to transfer to the BBC, with the DCMS reducing its funding by 94% by 2015. The BBC will provide around £76m of funding to S4C by this date, resulting in a cut of around 25% to S4C's annual budget.

    See also

    Related Welsh television services
  • S4C Sport
  • Cyw
  • BBC 2W
  • List of Welsh-language programmes
  • Other similar language services

  • List of Celtic language media
  • BBC Alba - Scottish Gaelic language channel
  • TG4 - Irish language channel
  • Cúla 4 - Irish language children's channel
  • World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network
  • References

    External links

  • Learners' site
  • Cyw children's channel
  • S4C 2007 Annual Report - audience share
  • Category:Economy of Cardiff Category:Television channels in the United Kingdom Category:Welsh language Category:Television in Wales Category:Television channels and stations established in 1982 Category:S4C Category:Companies based in Cardiff Category:1982 establishments in Wales

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    Owain Williams is the leader of Llais Gwynedd a Welsh nationalist and regionalist political party in Gwynedd, north Wales, and councillor representing the Clynnog Fawr ward for Gwynedd Council.

    He is a fervent nationalist committed to an independent Wales. In the 1960s he was imprisoned for bombing the site of the future Llyn Celyn reservoir but later turned to the democratic route being the chairman of the Independent Wales Party as well as a member of, at different times, both the Welsh Labour Party and Plaid Cymru. In May 2008 he was elected chairman of Llais Gwynedd after their emergence following the 2008 Welsh Local Elections.In the summer of 2009,he was reported to the authorities for leaving the bodies of several dead sheep to rot in his fields.

    References

    http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2009/08/27/councillor-labels-accuser-a-lily-livered-coward-88817-24539531/

    Category:Welsh politicians Category:Leaders of political parties in the United Kingdom Category:Living people Category:People educated at Brynteg Comprehensive School

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    The World News (WN) Network, has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to user privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for wn.com, as well as e-mail newsletters.

    1. Personal Information Collection and Use

    We do not collect personally identifiable information about you, except when you provide it to us. For example, if you submit an inquiry to us or sign up for our newsletter, you may be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details (name, e-mail address, mailing address, etc.).

    When you submit your personally identifiable information through wn.com, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you would prefer that we not collect any personally identifiable information from you, please do not provide us with any such information. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent, except as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

    Except as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we will use the information you provide us only for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or in connection with the service for which you provided such information. We may forward your contact information and inquiry to our affiliates and other divisions of our company that we feel can best address your inquiry or provide you with the requested service. We may also use the information you provide in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as generating statistics and developing marketing plans. We may share or transfer such non-personally identifiable information with or to our affiliates, licensees, agents and partners.

    We may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Such third parties may be provided with access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose.

    In addition, we may disclose any information, including personally identifiable information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request.

    2. E-mail addresses

    We do not want you to receive unwanted e-mail from us. We try to make it easy to opt-out of any service you have asked to receive. If you sign-up to our e-mail newsletters we do not sell, exchange or give your e-mail address to a third party.

    E-mail addresses are collected via the wn.com web site. Users have to physically opt-in to receive the wn.com newsletter and a verification e-mail is sent. wn.com is clearly and conspicuously named at the point of

    collection.

    If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by e-mailing us at michaelw(at)wn.com

    The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during registration and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure, however. Therefore, though we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

    If we decide to change our e-mail practices, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we think appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

    If we make material changes to our e-mail practices, we will notify you here, by e-mail, and by means of a notice on our home page.

    3. Third Party Advertisers

    The advertising banners and other forms of advertising appearing on this Web site are sometimes delivered to you, on our behalf, by a third party. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, the third party may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. For more information on cookies, you can visit www.cookiecentral.com.

    4. Business Transfers

    As we continue to develop our business, we might sell certain aspects of our entities or assets. In such transactions, user information, including personally identifiable information, generally is one of the transferred business assets, and by submitting your personal information on Wn.com you agree that your data may be transferred to such parties in these circumstances.