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…
Major FM boost for BBC Radio Wales
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…
BBC Two Wales to launch as a HD channel
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…
S4C gets Government relocation loan
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…
Cuts at BBC Wales
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…
S4C HD to launch on June 7th
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…
BBC One Wales HD starting on 29th January 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…
Freeview testing radio services in Scotland & Wales
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…
Wales becomes UK’s first digital TV nation
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…
Final Wales switchover underway
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,…
No CITV in Wales
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…