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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - RhysJR - 24-11-2023

Is BBC Wales the only nation/region to have a BSL round-up of the week's headlines near the end of Friday's lunchtime bulletin? Never seen any mention of it elsewhere around places like this or when travelling.

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - lookoutwales - 24-11-2023

I think BBC Newsline does a BSL round-up - not sure whether its each weekday or just once a week, although long ago, Inside Ulster had a signed bulletin at 6.55pm every weeknight (back when the main programme was at 5.35pm)

ITV Wales also had signed headlines, of course, but they quietly ditched that around 2008 amid a little bit of outcry.

If there's a relevant feature story regarding deaf or hard-of-hearing communities, Wales Today also bring in an interpreter.

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - DTV - 24-11-2023

(23-11-2023, 11:27 PM)ViridianFan Wrote:  I remember by the time the original studio in the forum was ready to be updated the wood floor looked awful. Never thought of the lighting. I do prefer the black to that awful grey they use.

Black floors are good because they hide the dark lighting patches, which have a tendency to look a bit dirty on a wooden floor. Lighter floors can have their uses, particularly in smaller studios, as they will brighten things a little, with the reflection providing a degree of natural up-lighting. While lighter floors (and, to an extent, black gloss floors) do show wear far more easily, if it's painted, a studio floor will typically be repainted every so often. Wood floors (depending on the technique) can't be touched up in the same way, so can get undisguisably tatty after a while.

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - Brekkie - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 03:05 PM)lookoutwales Wrote:  I think BBC Newsline does a BSL round-up - not sure whether its each weekday or just once a week, although long ago, Inside Ulster had a signed bulletin at 6.55pm every weeknight (back when the main programme was at 5.35pm)

ITV Wales also had signed headlines, of course, but they quietly ditched that around 2008 amid a little bit of outcry.

If there's a relevant feature story regarding deaf or hard-of-hearing communities, Wales Today also bring in an interpreter.

I think a few of the BBC regions used to use the old 3.25pm update for a signed version too.  Not sure if some of the "Newsweek" formats some ITV regions did on Sundays were signed too.   Indeed ITV Wales reintroduced a "Newsweek Wales" in recent years but not sure if it's still going.

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - RhysJR - 24-11-2023

S4C have sacked chief executive Sian Doyle.

(Not sure if this deserves its owen thread somewhere)

https://x.com/ifanmj/status/1728079614159806563?s=20 

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - Keith - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 05:04 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  S4C have sacked chief executive Sian Doyle.

(Not sure if this deserves its owen thread somewhere)

https://x.com/ifanmj/status/1728079614159806563?s=20 

The full article linked to in the retweeted post (or whatever the term now is) can be viewed at https://newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/17882 . The article appears to be in Welsh, so you may need to use your browser's translation facility if you have one (unless you're fluent in Welsh).

EDIT: BBC News article in English for those unable to translate can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67524977 .

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - RhysJR - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 05:24 PM)Keith Wrote:  The full article linked to in the retweeted post (or whatever the term now is) can be viewed at https://newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/17882 .  The article appears to be in Welsh, so you may need to use your browser's translation facility if you have one (unless you're fluent in Welsh).

EDIT: BBC News article in English for those unable to translate can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67524977 .

And here is the BBC Wales English equivalent of that:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67524977 

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(24-11-2023, 04:53 PM)Brekkie Wrote:  I think a few of the BBC regions used to use the old 3.25pm update for a signed version too.  Not sure if some of the "Newsweek" formats some ITV regions did on Sundays were signed too.   Indeed ITV Wales reintroduced a "Newsweek Wales" in recent years but not sure if it's still going.

Looks like the last Newsweek Wales was in July 2022.

https://www.itv.com/walesprogrammes/tags/newsweek-wales 

I don't think this has resulted in a cut of ITV Wales content though. Sharp End has been lengthened in the last 12 months, Coast and Country is almost ever present in the Friday 7pm slot, and there's been a few other regular series airing after the News at Ten on Mondays, Tuesdays, and at around 7pm on Sundays (plus slots in primetime other days of course).

https://www.itv.com/walesprogrammes/tags/also-showing 

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - lookoutwales - 24-11-2023

Newsweek Wales wasn't signed - and it was mostly pre-recorded on a Friday, although they did do an extra live news update, which was welcome.

As for S4C, a very, very sorry state of affairs - probably the most damaging in its history both on and off air.

Couldn't have come at a worse time when they had been striving for more international business (i.e. the weekly tie up with Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort channel for Welsh language channel)

A sad mess all round.

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - Stockland Hillman - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 06:05 PM)lookoutwales Wrote:  Newsweek Wales wasn't signed - and it was mostly pre-recorded on a Friday, although they did do an extra live news update, which was welcome.

As for S4C, a very, very sorry state of affairs - probably the most damaging in its history both on and off air.

Couldn't have come at a worse time when they had been striving for more international business (i.e. the weekly tie up with Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort channel for Welsh language channel)

A sad mess all round.

Unsurprising mess.  With around 550k Welsh speakers in a country of over 3 million; with its own Government and BBC Nation status,  finding  quality management was always gonna be a hard task. The talent pool is tiny.

Everybody is too interconnected,  with friends and enemies,  its a nightmare by all accounts.

Perhaps it's time to make it part of BBC Cymru Wales with a seperate editorial only advisory board for S4C, at least it will have better systems and structures in place for the operation of the organisation.  Not ideal,  but it can't continue as it has

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RE: BBC/ITV Wales/S4C News - Critique - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 05:27 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  I don't think this has resulted in a cut of ITV Wales content though. Sharp End has been lengthened in the last 12 months, Coast and Country is almost ever present in the Friday 7pm slot, and there's been a few other regular series airing after the News at Ten on Mondays, Tuesdays, and at around 7pm on Sundays (plus slots in primetime other days of course).

In recent years it’s appeared to me that ITV Wales don’t get the credit they perhaps deserve when it comes to local output, producing a level of output very similar to UTV (and from the looks of it, frequently more than STV manage in a given week) but without the same level of attention.

Looking at a typical week in Wales of late and you’ve got a mix of local politics, a local Panorama/Tonight-type programme, a local features series and a local arts and culture show. The mix is slightly different in Northern Ireland but isn’t too dissimilar, whilst in Scotland this week’s local output appears to be limited to two hours of local politics and nowt else - STV don’t even appear to have opted out of the second half hour of tonight’s ITV Evening News when both Wales and Northern Ireland did so for local programming.

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