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BBC Cymru Fyw is the online Welsh-language service provided by BBC Wales. It was launched in 2014 in order to replace the BBC Cymru ar lein service. It provides news coverage, magazine-style information and video clips, all through the medium of Welsh. [1] Its services are also available via applications on iOS and Android systems.
The new building is the base for almost all BBC Cymru Wales staff, and is purpose built to house radio and TV production teams. It is the home of BBC Cymru Wales's news services, in English and Welsh, Wales Today, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru, as well as production teams for UK-wide programming and programmes commissioned by S4C.
Wales would gain some significance when, in 1957, the BBC West region from Bristol was established including a daily five-minute news bulletin for Wales, followed five years later by the launch of the daily magazine programme, Wales Today. [1] The channel was launched on February 9, 1964 as BBC Cymru Wales.
BBC Radio Cymru 2 is a Welsh language radio station owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts across Wales on DAB , digital TV and BBC Sounds . Radio Cymru 2 broadcasts music-led programming for up to 60 hours a week, as an opt-out from the main BBC Radio Cymru service, which provides shared programming at ...
On weekdays, BBC Wales Today broadcasts six three-minute bulletins at 27 and 57 minutes past each hour during BBC Breakfast. A 10-minute lunchtime programme airs at 1:35 pm during the BBC News at One, with a short preview at 5:15 pm. The main half-hour edition of the programme airs at 6:30 pm after following the BBC News at Six.
BBC Radio Cymru is a Welsh language radio station owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts across Wales on FM , DAB , digital TV and BBC Sounds . The station broadcasts general factual and entertainment programming for 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours a day from 5:30am to midnight with overnight programming simulcast from ...
Before S4C started broadcasting in November 1982, the BBC's main Welsh-language TV news programme was Heddiw (Today), which ran from 1961 to 1982. Initially shown in a lunchtime slot on certain transmitters around the UK, in later years, Heddiw moved to an early-evening slot in Wales following Nationwide , which incorporated the sister English ...
The launch of BBC Cymru Wales (BBC Wales at the time) on 9 February 1964 provided a specific television service for the country. The new service was heavily promoted (proclaiming that Wales gets its very own TV service in 1964!) with animated promos using the sound of Welsh choirs to explain about interference from the mountains. [2]