01-02-2024, 10:19 PM
Not surprising - I’ve been predicting this would happen under the current editor.
They didn’t handle the departure of their late show presenter terribly well in 2022 - which had a lot of parallels with some of the departures from BBC Local in England. A lot of listeners have not let that lie at all.
The striking thing is Dafydd Meredydd hasn’t shaken up the schedules in a major way (compared to Radio Wales, whose figures are more stable after a daytime revamp last summer) yet he’s still inflicted quite a bit of damage on the brand.
The last time these figures were in such a bad state was when Betsan Powys was in charge (following her stint as BBC Wales political editor) - she initiated Radio Cymru 2 but also ran a ‘Sgwrs’ survey taking in the whole station which in the long term achieved very little. Suffice to say it was her only role in radio management to date.
There was quite a bit of coverage today on both Radio Cymru and Newyddion - infact, I’d ought to state an interest and say I was interviewed by one of S4C’s in-house journos for the Newyddion website in my capacity as an industry commentator (running the Wales account for Radio Today)
They didn’t handle the departure of their late show presenter terribly well in 2022 - which had a lot of parallels with some of the departures from BBC Local in England. A lot of listeners have not let that lie at all.
The striking thing is Dafydd Meredydd hasn’t shaken up the schedules in a major way (compared to Radio Wales, whose figures are more stable after a daytime revamp last summer) yet he’s still inflicted quite a bit of damage on the brand.
The last time these figures were in such a bad state was when Betsan Powys was in charge (following her stint as BBC Wales political editor) - she initiated Radio Cymru 2 but also ran a ‘Sgwrs’ survey taking in the whole station which in the long term achieved very little. Suffice to say it was her only role in radio management to date.
There was quite a bit of coverage today on both Radio Cymru and Newyddion - infact, I’d ought to state an interest and say I was interviewed by one of S4C’s in-house journos for the Newyddion website in my capacity as an industry commentator (running the Wales account for Radio Today)
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