Oct 15 2018
BBC to extend FM coverage to additional 400,000 people across Wales. From Wednesday 24 October, BBC Radio Wales will be available across 91% of Wales, thanks to a major boost to its FM signal. Wales’s national radio station – which currently reaches 79% of households in Wales – will be available to more listeners than […]
Jun 8 2018
BBC Two Wales will launch in HD later this year – enabling BBC Wales to deliver all its programming in HD for the first time. BBC Two Wales HD will be available on Freeview HD, Youview, BBC iPlayer and other DTT HD platforms. The precise launch dates will be confirmed shortly. BBC Cymru Wales Director […]
Mar 21 2017
Welsh broadcaster S4C is being given a £10m government loan to help with the channel’s forthcoming relocation from Llanishen to Carmarthen. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said the loan would help “secure the future of Welsh language broadcasting”. The move to a new HQ will reportedly create 800 jobs. Additionally, S4C will share technical facilities with […]
Sep 19 2016
BBC Wales is cutting its content budget and will appoint a head of commissioning to work across TV, radio and online output. BBC Wales, which produces Doctor Who and the Doctor Who spin-off Class, is aiming to save £9m (US$12m) a year by 2022. BBC Wales said the changes would see it accelerate development of […]
May 21 2016
S4C HD will launch on satellite on Tuesday 7th June, and will be available on Sky and Freesat following several weeks of test transmissions. The HD channel will take the slot of the current standard definition service for viewers with HD receivers. S4C HD will be available across the UK: On Sky and Freesat 104 […]
Jan 11 2013
Alix Pryde, Director of BBC Distribution, has today confirmed that the final national variant of BBC One HD will be launched on the 29th January 2013. BBC One Wales HD will replace the existing BBC One HD on all digital platforms in the Principality. The launch takes place 15 days after the start of BBC […]
Jan 6 2011
The BBC national stations for Wales and Scotland will be off-air on Freeview for about one hour on January 10th 2011 This will happen during the “small hours” of next Monday, January 10th, 2011. Only the Freeview services are part of this test. This is to allow the BBC to test the critical infrastructure. Analogue […]
Mar 31 2010
The Welsh switchover began last August. The first stage of switchover at the Wenvoe transmitter group which covers Cardiff, Newport and south east Wales, began earlier this month when analogue BBC Two was turned off and ended today with the final analogue TV signals being switched off permanently. The remaining analogue channels—BBC One, ITV1, Channel […]
Mar 3 2010
Viewers in Cardiff, Newport and south east Wales have begun the switch to digital that will make Wales the UK’s first digital nation. Forty-six years after BBC Two was launched, the channel’s last remaining analogue signal in Wales was turned off permanently at the Wenvoe transmitter, and engineers started switching on digital signals at 75 […]
Feb 8 2008
Digital terrestrial viewers in Wales have lost the CiTV Channel after it moved broadcast slots to extend its hours on air. The channel this week moved to new spectrum capacity on SDN’s Multiplex A which was previously occupied by ABC1. It means the ITV children’s channel can now broadcast for an extra five-and-a-half hours on […]
UKTV stays on satellite until the end of the decade
CITV: Children’s TV channel will close in September
That’s TV secures licence for That’s Cinema
BBC Radio 4 begins information campaign to transition listeners from Long Wave
Sky News launches international audio service
ITVX Kids launching in Summer 2023
CNN launches new FAST channel in Europe
More organisations join crusade to protect terrestrial television and radio
Channel launches and updates on Freeview
ITV announces closure of CITV
Nov 9 2018
S4C’s new £6m Carmarthen home officially opens
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright QC, MP and UK Government Minister for Wales Lord Bourne officially opened S4C’s new headquarters in Carmarthen yesterday, Thursday (Nov 8). Both Ministers were given a tour of the new, state of the art centre. Yr Egin is the result of four years of […]
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By Expat • S4C • Tags: Carmarthen, Cymru, S4C, Wales