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  Welsh language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Welsh language
Spoken by 18.7% of the Welsh population, it is the strongest of the surviving Celtic languages.
Welsh has been in decline in the face of English expansion since the accession of the Welsh Henry Tudor (as Henry VII) to the throne of England in 1485.
According to a survey, in 1995 21% of the Welsh population spoke the national tongue; of that number, it was the mother tongue of 55%.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Welsh+language   (325 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: S4C
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru - 'Channel Four Wales') is a Welsh-language television channel broadcasting in Wales, United Kingdom, which was established in response to demands for a channel to cater for the Welsh-speaking minority population in Wales.
It is the equivalent of Channel 4, which broadcasts to the rest of the United Kingdom.
S4C is controlled by the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority (Awdurod Sianel Pedwar Cymru in Welsh), an independent body unconnected to the bodies which regulate the other UK television channels such as the BBC, ITV, or Channel 4.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/S4C   (1644 words)

  
 S4C - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru - 'Channel Four Wales') is a Welsh-language television channel broadcasting in Wales, United Kingdom, which was established in response to demands for a channel tocater for the Welsh-speaking minority population in Wales.
It is the equivalent of Channel 4, which broadcasts to the rest of the UnitedKingdom.
This was not only unsatisfactory for Welsh speakers, who saw them as a sop, but alsoan annoyance of the non-Welsh-speaking community which found the English programmes seen in the rest of the UK often rescheduledor not transmitted at all.
www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=S4C   (580 words)

  
 S4C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru - 'Channel Four Wales') is a Welsh language television channel broadcasting in Wales, United Kingdom, which was established in response to demands for a channel tocater for the Welsh-speaking minority population in Wales.
Previously Welsh speakers had beenserved by occasional programmes in Welsh broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and HTV (the ITV station inWales), often at obscure times.
During the 1970s, Welsh language activists had campaigned for a TV service in the language, which already had its own radiostation BBC Radio Cymru.This led to acts of civil disobedience, including refusals to pay the television licence, thereby running the risk of prosecution or even a prison sentence, and sit-ins inBBC and HTV studios.
www.therfcc.org /s4c-123009.html   (512 words)

  
 Welsh television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Welsh language programming began on ITV in 1956 with Granada, which produced up to an hour a week of current affairs and education programmes to serve the overlap audience in north Wales.
Additionally, pride in the nation and its culture meant that the local news of Wales in Welsh was of the same standard as the ITN news.
Welsh programmes (with a chapter in both languages) are mentioned in every yearbook until the creation of S4C took them out of the IBA's hands (S4C is regulated by the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, rather than the IBA's successor, the ITC).
www.transdiffusion.org /pmc/yearbooks/ita1968/wales.htm   (978 words)

  
 A channel for Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Whilst Welsh speakers may have sought out programming in their own language, they kept the same hours as the rest of the population, and being a Welsh speaker did not realistically mean you were home from work before 5pm.
In short order, the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority was set up, with a generous stipend from the UK government’s secretary of state for Wales, and the plans for the new fourth channel were put in place.
The IBA, despite having no say in the new channel, were asked to concentrate their resources on Wales, so that some of the smallest relays in the principality were given capacity for the channel even before some of the main transmitters of ITV were prepared.
www.transdiffusion.org /emc/seefour/wales   (2165 words)

  
 S4C - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
S4C Digidol is an exclusively Welsh language service (S4C Digital), broadcast by S4C within Wales on DTT and throughout the UK on digital satellite broadcasts.
The channel is available in the UK on Freeview in Wales and nationwide on Sky Digital.
One benefit of DTT in Wales is that Channel 4 can now be broadcast alongside S4C, thereby placating disgruntled English speakers who have often had to put up with Channel 4 programmes aired hours or days later on S4C.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/S4C   (781 words)

  
 The Broadcasting Act 1990
Channel 3 licensees are required to transmit at least 25% of their output from independent producers.
Channel 3 licensees must provide (and give a "sufficient amount of time" to) high quality news and current affairs programmes as well as children's, regional and religious programmes.
The Welsh Fourth Channel Authority (S4C) had to provide a high quality television service in Wales, including Welsh language programmes in peak-time, which would be funded by the Government.
web.ukonline.co.uk /r.wood3/broadcasting_act_1990.htm   (807 words)

  
 Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42)
Welsh Authority to continue in existence as Sianel Pedwar Cymru.
(3) The Welsh Authority shall secure that, during any period allocated by them to the broadcasting of a programme not in Welsh, the programme broadcast by them on S4C is normally a programme which is being, has been or is to be broadcast on Channel 4.
The Welsh Authority shall provide the Commission with such forecasts, estimates, information and documents as the Commission may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to perform their functions under sections 26 and 61.
www.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900042_en_7.htm   (1874 words)

  
 Wales
Welsh television is currently comprised of BBC-1 Wales and BBC-2 Wales, the independent television (ITV) commercial franchise holder, Harlech Television (HTV Wales), and Sianel Pedwar Cymru ([S4C] Channel Four Wales), the Welsh equivalent of Britain's commercial Channel Four.
Welsh MP's also argued that the seven hours of programming on BBC Wales opened up by the transfer of Welsh-language programs to a fourth channel should be filled with BBC Wales programs in English rather than BBC network material.
Welsh reaction was swift; at Plaid Cymru's annual conference in October, a fund was established into which supporters opposed to Whitelaw's decision could deposit their television license fee (2,000 protesters pledged support and a number received prison sentences the following spring).
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/wales/wales.htm   (3151 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Authority takes the view that collective licensing arrangements per se, where actual or potential competitors in the market join together for the collective licensing of their separate services for a global fee to be divided on an agreed basis, restricts competition.
Clause 5 requires the licensee to allocate a particular channel in the cable network for each programme service and that a minimum uninterrupted 8 hours per 24 hours on the cable channel has to be devoted to broadcasts of each particular service.
Since the number of channels covered by the agreement is 4 there remains very substantial leeway to accommodate the rapid development of private satellite broadcasting.
www.tca.ie /decisions/383.doc   (3505 words)

  
 S4C Corporate Pages
Since 1982, all Welsh language TV programmes, from whatever source, have been transmitted on S4C to create one comprehensive Welsh medium service.
During the 1970s, the advent of a fourth channel was seen by many as an opportunity for a new beginning in public service broadcasting in Wales.
The Welsh Fourth Channel Authority is an independent broadcasting authority, responsible for S4C's strategic policy.
www.s4c.co.uk /abouts4c/corporate/e_index.shtml   (584 words)

  
 The TV Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
S4C's Analogue service broadcasts an average of 34 hours a week of Welsh language programming; 10 of which are provided by the BBC and paid for by through the licence fee.
The remainder of S4C's Welsh language output is commissioned from independent producers such as local ITV contractor, HTV.
The Authority's Chair and members are appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport following an open procedure of application and interview that is accessible to all.
www.thetvroom.com /p-s4c-a.shtml   (577 words)

  
 S4C
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru - 'Channel Four Wales') is a Welsh language television channel broadcasting in Wales, United Kingdom, which was established in response to demands for a channel to cater for the Welsh-speaking minority population in Wales.
SuperTed, Fireman Sam ('Sam Tân' in Welsh), Shakespeare - The Animated Tales, etc. The BBC fulfills its public service requirement by producing programmes in Welsh (including S4C's News and the soap opera Pobol y Cwm) and providing them to S4C free of charge.
For that part of the day outside the peak period, S4C shows programmes produced for Channel 4 in the rest of the UK (though often several days later).
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/s/s4/s4c.html   (565 words)

  
 Aber News Online - Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The day he died, news programmes on Welsh television broadcast mid-sixties film footage of him coming down the steps of the Welsh Office smiling, carrying a small briefcase, wearing a long overcoat and a bowler hat, striding not to a sober saloon car but to a hard-driven Land Rover.
Sir Goronwy H Daniel, civil servant, university Principal and inaugural Chairman of the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, was born in Ystradgynlais on 21 March 1914.
He was a leading member of the Welsh Council from 1968, and between 1971 and 1980 was its chairman.
www.aber.ac.uk /~donwww/obituaries.shtml   (1926 words)

  
 S4C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru - 'Channel Four Wales') is a Welsh language television channel broadcasting in Wales United Kingdom which was established in response to for a channel to cater for the minority population in Wales.
S4C does not produce programmes of its instead it commissions programmes in Welsh from producers (although the quantity purchased from HTV greatly reduced since the early years of and it has particularly developed a reputation producing cartoons e.g.
S4C is controlled by the 'Welsh Fourth Channel Authority' an independent body unconnected to the which regulate the other UK television channels as the BBC ITV or Channel 4.
www.freeglossary.com /S4C   (366 words)

  
 S4C FACTS AND INFORMATION
It is the equivalent of Channel_4, which broadcasts to the rest of the United_Kingdom.
For that part of the day outside the peak period, S4C shows programmes produced for Channel_4 in the rest of the UK (though often several days later and often at unsociable hours).
S4C is controlled by the Welsh_Fourth_Channel_Authority (''Awdurod Sianel Pedwar Cymru'' in Welsh), an independent body unconnected to the bodies which regulate the other UK television channels such as the BBC, ITV, or Channel 4.
www.witwib.com /S4C   (722 words)

  
 ITV History
The IBA is given the job of setting up the fourth channel in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The task in Wales is given to a new Welsh fourth channel authority.
ITC advertises the 16 Channel 3 ITV licences (15 regional plus one national breakfast time licence) to be awarded by the process of competitive tender (this means that the applications have to bear a quality threshold and an amount of money payable to the treasury in support of the bid).
website.lineone.net /~tv-research/database/itvhistory.htm   (1095 words)

  
 House of Commons - Welsh Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
In such cases, Welsh interests can also be promoted overseas, although more indirectly, when the UK pursues policies and negotiating lines internationally or in European fora which have been agreed domestically in these Cabinet committees attended by Wales Office Ministers.
All three Welsh Film Commissions (North Wales, Mid Wales and South Wales) are taking the opportunity of attending a trade mission to Mumbai, India, 13-17 November 2000, which is being organised by the Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and focusing on the creative industries, particularly film, TV and video.
The Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, S4C, is funded primarily by a grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (£78 million for the year 2000).
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmwelaf/38/1020602.htm   (7967 words)

  
 Report Of The Independent Review Of The Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, S4C, By Roger Laughton Published
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell today announced the publication of the report of the independent review of the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, S4C, by Roger Laughton.
The review included consultation with a wide range of interests, including organisations representative of those sectors where the role of S4C is of particular significance, as well as considering the outcome of and evidence from a recent internal review carried out by S4C.
Following a request from the S4C Authority, and against the background of her statutory responsibilities with regard to the channel, the Secretary of State is commissioning an independent review of S4C.
www.culture.gov.uk /global/press_notices/archive_2004/dcms097_04.htm   (538 words)

  
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 News Wales > Media
30/9/2004 - The Welsh language TV soap that gave Hollywood heart-throb Ioan Gruffudd his first big break, Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley), is to be awarded one of the top honours in British television.
He joins the Welsh language TV channel from the Welsh Assembly Government where he is currently Head of Corporate Communications and was previously Head of News.
7/5/2004 - In its response to the Government's review of the BBC's Royal Charter, the S4C authority is calling for the Welsh language channel's unique relationship with the BBC to be revisited in the light of changes which have take...
www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Media&   (1334 words)

  
 Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42)
In Schedule 1, in Part II, the entries relating to the Cable Authority, the Independent Broad- casting Authority and the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority.
In Schedule 1, in Part II, the entries relating to the Cable Authority and the Independent Broad- casting Authority.
In regulation 2(1), the definitions of "broadcast advertisement", "Cable Authority", "IBA" and "licensable service".
www.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900042_en_42.htm   (379 words)

  
 Appropriation Act 1999
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 aftnn.org: afternoon's journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Thank you for your email addressed to Tessa Jowell dated the 30th July 2001 concerning the Channel 4 programme Brass Eye.  The Broadcasting Policy Division deals with television regulatory policy and I have been asked to respond.
Under the current broadcasting arrangements, responsibility for what is broadcast on television and radio rests with the broadcasters and the broadcasting regulatory bodies -the Governors of the BBC, the Independent Television Commission (ITC), the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority (S4C) and the Radio Authority.
They are independent of the Government and accountable for safeguarding the public interest in broadcasting.  They also maintain guidelines for programme makers on the standards which should be observed.
aftnn.org /journal/54   (583 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: S4C2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Updated 191 days 13 hours 54 minutes ago.
SuperTed, Fireman Sam ('Sam Tân' in Welsh), Shakespeare - The Animated Tales, etc. BBC Wales fulfills its public service requirement by producing programmes in Welsh (including S4C's News and the soap opera Pobol y Cwm) and providing them to S4C free of charge.
S4C is controlled by the 'Welsh Fourth Channel Authority', know in Welsh as Awdurod Sianel Pedwar Cymru, an independent body unconnected to the bodies which regulate the other UK television channels such as the BBC, ITV, or Channel 4.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/S4C2   (794 words)

  
 Television (Foul Language): 15 Sep 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
Responsibility for what is broadcast on television rests with the broadcasters and the organisations which regulate broadcasting—the Governors of the BBC, the Independent Television Commission and the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority.
They are independent of the Government and responsible for safeguarding the public interest in broadcasting.
In carrying out their responsibilities, these authorities have a duty to ensure that programmes contain nothing which offends against good taste and decency or is likely to be offensive to public feeling.
www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans?id=2003-09-15.530W.0   (282 words)

  
 Public Bodies 1998 - Department for Culture, Media and Sport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
It is funded by the commercial radio stations.
TERMS OF REFERENCE : To provide a high quality television service in Wales, with a substantial proportion of programmes and the majority of programmes in peak hours in the Welsh language.
TERMS OF REFERENCE : The Arts Council of England is the national funding body for the arts in this country.
www.archive.official-documents.co.uk /document/caboff/pb98/6a.htm   (210 words)

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