Must say I've never felt that Newsbeat needed to be more Welsh and the practicalities of it are probably not worth it for a 60-second bulletin once an hour during part of the day. It might be more worth it if they replaced one full edition of Newsbeat, but ultimately I don't think people are tuning into Radio 1 expecting the local news.
Must say I've never felt that Newsbeat needed to be more Welsh and the practicalities of it are probably not worth it for a 60-second bulletin once an hour during part of the day. It might be more worth it if they replaced one full edition of Newsbeat, but ultimately I don't think people are tuning into Radio 1 expecting the local news.
No, l agree, but the same engineering challenges exist what ever the national radio station might be. BBC do have a problem providing Radio Wales and Cymru to the whole of Wales on DAB, because the local/regional provision is space of commercial muxes, and those muxes have nothing like 100% coverage. Same situation
for Radio Scotland and nan Gaidheal
It must be quite easy for politicians in the Welsh Assembly to decide that the BBC should spent an extra £30 million on Welsh programming. It costs them nothing, and looks good to their voters.
However have they not noticed that the BBC is having to reduce its spending everywhere, one possible reason could be having to fund S4C.
The Welsh news opt outs on national Radio 1 or 2 is not viable, nor is Scottish news, Yorkshire news, or Cornwall news.
Welsh news does feature on all national stations when it is important enough.
Maybe they could suggest changes to Radio Wales or Cymru if they don't have enough local news.
As for S4C having to repeat more programmes, is that because previously they showed English language Channel 4 shows outside peak hours. Now Channel 4 is available everywhere that doesn't happen.
As for ITV, if they have good ideas for programmes about Wales, then surely they would already be trying to get them on the network?
Not really.
The committee that are looking into all Welsh media are going to have an inquiry into that later.
They also intend to look at local papers and other media later.
Seems to just focus on the PSBs - nothing about local TV either. Strangely though it does state they visited the Wales Online offices, though I see no reason why under this review.