24-11-2023, 08:04 PM
(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.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.
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.
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