Broadcasting for Wales: The Early Years of S4C

This volume chronicles the decisions and activities of the channel during its trial period between 1981–5, studying the challenges, successes, and failures of the S4C Authority and its staff as they aimed to create a Welsh-language television service.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2022
Publisher: University of Wales Press

This is the first study of the early formative years of one of Wales' most important cultural organizations – Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C). The volume chronicles the decisions and activities of the channel during its trial period between 1981 and 195. Through a detailed study of minutes, correspondence, and interviews with individuals who were key to the channels development during its early years, it chronicles the many challenges, successes, and failures which faced the S4C Authority and its staff as they aimed to create a Welsh-language television service that would meet the desires and needs of the audience in Wales. S4C is no ordinary channel, and no other period in its history portrays this more effectively than the trial period given to it at the beginning of the 1980s.

S4C is no ordinary channel, and no other period in its history portrays this more effectively than the trial period given to it at the beginning of the 1980s.

The volume chronicles the decisions and activities of the channel during its trial period between 1981 and 195. Through a detailed study of minutes, correspondence, and interviews with individuals who were key to the channels development during its early years, it chronicles the many challenges, successes, and failures which faced the S4C Authority and its staff as they aimed to create a Welsh-language television service that would meet the desires and needs of the audience in Wales.

S4C is no ordinary channel, and no other period in its history portrays this more effectively than the trial period given to it at the beginning of the 1980s.

The volume chronicles the decisions and activities of the channel during its trial period between 1981 and 195. Through a detailed study of minutes, correspondence, and interviews with individuals who were key to the channels development during its early years, it chronicles the many challenges, successes, and failures which faced the S4C Authority and its staff as they aimed to create a Welsh-language television service that would meet the desires and needs of the audience in Wales.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786839640