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Evans preferred S4C Chair candidate

Delyth Evans is the Government’s preferred candidate for the S4C Chair, the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced. Evans started her career as a journalist at HTV Wales, working on the flagship current affairs programme Y Byd ar Bedwar for British Welsh-language free-to-air television channel S4C. She subsequently worked as a reporter on BBC Radio […]

April 16, 2025By Colin Mann

First speakers announced for DTG Summit

The DTG Summit 2025 is set to deliver an exploration of the forces shaping the future of television and media. The Summit will bring together thought leaders from across the media, technology and business landscapes to challenge assumptions, spark debate, and deliver fresh insights into a rapidly evolving sector. The DTG has announced the first […]

March 19, 2025

Bariau returns for second season

S4C’s prison-based drama Bariau will return for a second series on April 13th. The long anticipated six-part drama series will be shown on Welsh language TV channel S4C and also available to watch on BBC iPlayer and S4C Clic as a boxset. The first series of Bariau was broadcast on S4C in January 2024 and […]

March 13, 2025

S4C appoints non-exec members to Commercial Board

S4C has appointed three non-executive board ,embers to its Commercial Board. After an open process, Richard Johnston, Luci Sanan and Oliver Lang will join the Board this February. Johnston is the former Chief Executive Officer of Endemol Shine UK – the content production and distribution group. He was also Chair of ScreenSkills, the skills body […]

February 13, 2025

Iwan appointed S4C Chief Content Officer

Llion Iwan has been appointed as S4C’s Chief Content Officer. Iwan is currently the Managing Director of Cwmni Da – one of Wales’ leading independent production companies – which he joined in 2019 and, under his leadership, the company has increased turnover, was the first to place Welsh language content on Prime Video and developed […]

January 31, 2025

HoHo Rights signs Shane the Chef deal with Canal+

Children’s rights management company Hoho Rights (Cloudbabies, Toad & Friends) today has cooked up a deal with Canal+ in France for the acquisition of its popular preschool property Shane the Chef. The series has also been sold to MTV in Hungary and RTV in Slovakia. The Canal+ deal will see the 52×11’ CG animated series […]

January 28, 2025

Ofcom: PSBs ‘facing challenges’

As part of its role to support and strengthen the quality of public service broadcasting (PSB), regulator Ofcom has a duty to review periodically how television services provided by the BBC, ITV, STV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C have delivered against the PSB purposes and objectives set by Parliament. This includes, among other things, […]

December 17, 2024By Colin Mann

The Smurfs returning to S4C

International children’s television favourite, The Smurfs, are set to return to S4C – under their Welsh name, Y Smyrffs – for the first time in 40 years. The Welsh-language channel has acquired a licence to broadcast the animated series from owner Peyo Company. It will be dubbed in Welsh by production company Cwmni Da and […]

November 26, 2024

S4C, Media Cymru announce digital future project

Welsh-language public service broadcaster S4C and Welsh media consortium Media Cymru have announced that they have called “the most ambitious research and development project in S4C’s history”. It will explore the future of S4C’s audiences, its distribution and public service broadcast prominence in the digital age. The channel’s ultimate aim is to ensure its Welsh-language content is easily discoverable […]

November 18, 2024

Evans named S4C Chief

S4C has announced that Geraint Evans has been appointed Chief Executive of S4C. Evans is S4C’s Interim Chief Content Officer, and leads the commissioning team. He joined S4C in 2019 as News and Current Affairs Commissioner. He was responsible for developing S4C’s digital news service, before becoming Director of Content and Publishing Strategy. Before joining […]

November 12, 2024