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The Cambrian, a weekly newspaper started by George Haynes and L. W. Dillwyn in 1804, was the first newspaper published in Wales. Its original publisher was Thomas Jenkins. The full masthead proclaimed The Cambrian and Weekly General Advertiser for Swansea and the Principality of Wales.
As of January 2010, the Cambrian News was the second largest newspaper in Wales, claiming a circulation of 24,000 copies in six regional editorial versions, and 60,000 weekly readers. The circulation area of mid, west and north Wales covered 3,000 square miles (7,800 km 2). [5]
In 1880, a consortium assembled by Gibson purchased the Cambrian News, and for the next thirty years it became one of the most influential weekly papers in Wales. [1] This owed much to Gibson's personality and independent views. As a by-product of his newspaper, his book The Emancipation of Women appeared in 1891 and was reissued in 1894 ...
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Capital North West and Wales operates an opt-out service for the North Wales Coast on 96.3 FM, carrying an hour-long Welsh language programme each weekday. GTFM, a community radio station in Pontypridd, airs Welsh-medium programmes on Tuesday and Sunday evenings and Saturday mornings with a daily news bulletin in Welsh from BBC Radio Cymru.
Cambrian News, a Welsh newspaper; The Cambrian, a former Welsh newspaper founded in 1806; The Cambrian (U.S.) , a Welsh-language newspaper printed in the United States, 1880–1919; The Cambrian, a newspaper serving Cambria, California, owned by The Tribune of San Luis Obispo
The media in Wales provide services in both English and Welsh, and play a role in modern Welsh culture. BBC Cymru Wales began broadcasting in 1923 have helped to promote a form of standardised spoken Welsh, [1] and one historian has argued that the concept of Wales as a single national entity owes much to modern broadcasting. [2]
Jones' brother William built a new printworks in 1900 on Conwy Quay, where the Weekly News continued to be published until May 1972 when it moved to new purpose-built premises in Llandudno Junction; shortly afterwards it abandoned hot metal typesetting in favour of computerised printing; later technological developments allowed copy to be ...