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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.
Welsh-language television news on the BBC first aired on 6pm on 16 March 1956. Under the name Tele-Newyddion, this fifteen-minute bulletin was broadcast as an opt-out on the Wenvoe, Sutton Coldfield and Holme Moss transmitters, in the style of a newsreel, presenting news items from the past weeks at the time of broadcast.
Hywel Gwynfryn (born 13 July 1942) is a Welsh television and radio personality and lyricist. [1] [self-published source] [2] He started working for the BBC in 1964 and joined BBC Radio Cymru at its inception, being the first voice heard on the new station.
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 Cymru Wales produces programmes for S4C as part of its public service remit, including the news service Newyddion. From its launch until 2010, S4C also carried English-language programming acquired from Channel 4, which could not be received over-the-air in most of Wales; these programmes aired in non-peak hours and did not always air in ...
BBC Wales Today is the BBC's national television news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the headquarters of BBC Cymru Wales in Central Square, Cardiff. According to the BBC, it is the world's longest-running television news programme.
BBC Radio Cymru broadcasts a range of news, current affairs, cultural, music and sports programming through the medium of Welsh for 18.5 hours a day. It is similar in size and operation to RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. The station simulcasts English-language output from BBC World Service during overnight hours after closedown.