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TV and the future of Science in Wales
Is there enough money to make science based TV programmes? Can we afford not to make them? TV plays a crucial role in creating an interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) matters...
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Media smoke and mirrors
As the fallout continues over the way the announcement was made for the preferred route of the £1 billion M4 relief road, and revelations that the minister responsible has not done a live broadcast...
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On air? Welsh radio in decline
40 years ago this week, Wales’ voice in the world got louder with the launch of Swansea Sound, the nation’s first independent local radio station. Fast forward 40 years and you will see a Welsh radio...
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The challenge of reaching Wales’ citizens
Today’s summit in Cardiff is timely. It will debate some of the biggest and hottest issues in broadcasting – including commissioning, the role of the independent sector and the future of news provision...
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Finding Wales’ voice in the broadcasting debate
It is very timely that the IWA has arranged this Summit today considering all the crucial developments affecting the media industry in Wales. We are still waiting for the UK Government’s response to...
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Is the production of BBC Drama in Cardiff under threat?
In the run-up to the negotiations for the renewal of the BBC Charter Lord Tony Hall, the BBC Director General, has announced radical proposals to transform its approach to commissioning and production...
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Help shape our Constitutional Convention
On January 26th we are launching a Crowd Sourced Constitutional Convention on the future of Wales, and the UK Just as we are ‘crowd sourcing’ the funding to try and help us hold this innovative...
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Crabb deal on broadcasting in Wales is not secure yet
When Stephen Crabb, the Secretary of State for Wales, stood up on 27 February to proclaim a (fragile) cross-party consensus on further powers for Wales, he did so only hours after Ofcom, the media...
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Time for Wales’ creative sector to ‘open up’
Good morning and many thanks for the invitation. I’m delighted to be here. I want to take a moment today to talk about inclusion issues within Wales’ creative industries, and to set out some of our...
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The end game for newspapers?
There is a perception held by many that the internet has hastened change in the print industry. I would dispute this. Change is inevitable in all walks of life; given that we have recently commemorated...
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BBC licence fee raid ̶̶ The consequences for Wales
For the second time in five years Government Ministers have backed the BBC into a corner, issued a ‘money or your life’ threat, walked away with a big chunk of the licence fee and left a Director...
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Araith Eisteddfod Maldwyn a’r Gororau
CYFLWYNIAD Rai misoedd yn ôl, ro’dd yr araith yma bron iawn yn barod. O’dd hi’n gwneud rhyw fath o synnwyr hefyd. O’dd ‘na ddechrau, canol a diwedd. Ddim o reidrwydd yn y drefn yna. Ond ro’dd bron iawn...
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Eisteddfod speech- Maldwyn a’r Gororau
INTRODUCTION A few months ago, I had my speech for today just about ready to go. It sort of worked. It certainly had a beginning, a middle and an end. Not necessarily in that order. But it was getting...
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Beyond Rhetoric: Media Policy for Wales
“as slow to be set on fire as a stomach” I wondered, while listening to Rhodri Talfan Davies speak this weekon two occasions at the National Eisteddfod, if some version of that sentiment ever entered...
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Broadcasting for the nations – on the agenda at last
The Welsh Government’s decision to go for broke by demanding an extra £30m from the BBC licence for broadcasting in Wales, is a matter for both relief and rejoicing. In the last decade it has been...
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BBC needs to follow-through on its warm words
Last April Tony Hall came to Cardiff to say that the BBC wasn’t doing enough to capture Welsh life in its output. Over a year on, as he sets out the future of the BBC, he has yet to say how he plans to...
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British, Bold, Creative – for all of us in Wales?
British, Bold, Creative: a catchy, punchy title for the BBC’s statement of its plans for the next decade and beyond but, read from the point of view of the Welsh bit of ‘British’, the contents are...
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A boiling frog? The state of the media in Wales
It may not withstand scientific scrutiny but the anecdote of the frog placed in boiling water could well be a metaphor for the media in Wales. The frog dropped into hot water will immediately jump to...
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Media in Wales: A democratic necessity
52% of people in Wales do not realise that the NHS is run by the Welsh Government and not the UK Government. Nearly a fifth of voters in Wales consistently tell pollsters they felt unable to rate First...
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Radio: a much loved medium in decline?
Radio is a much neglected medium in the debate around media provision in Wales. But ‘voice’ has remained a resilient medium for people accessing information and entertainment at a time of rapid...
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