Newyddion

Newyddion
Newyddion 9 title card
Presented by Bethan Rhys Roberts
Rhodri Llywelyn
(Main anchors)
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) Welsh
Production
Production location(s) Broadcasting House, Cardiff, Wales
Running time Main bulletin:
30 minutes
Production company(s) BBC Cymru Wales
Release
Original network S4C
Picture format 576i
Original release 1 November 1982 (1982-11-01) – present
External links
Production website

Newyddion (Welsh for News) is a Welsh-language news programme consisting of Welsh, UK, and international news, produced daily by BBC Cymru Wales and broadcast on S4C.

Overview

The main evening programme (branded Newyddion 9) is broadcast each weekday evening between 9pm and 9:30pm, with shorter editions airing at varying times on Saturday and Sunday evenings.

In 2009, a new service of short weekday bulletins was introduced. Five-minute updates are broadcast at lunchtime (1:00pm), mid-afternoon (2:55pm) and early-evening (6:30pm).

Dewi Llwyd, who presented the programme for almost 30 years, was dropped from the presentation team in 2013.[1] Having previously been broadcast at 7:30pm, the programme relaunched in its new 9pm slot on 22 April 2013 with Bethan Rhys Roberts and Rhun ap Iorwerth[2] presenting on alternate nights. Mr ap Iorwerth later left the BBC to successfully stand for Plaid Cymru in the Welsh Assembly by-election for the seat of Ynys Môn.[3]

S4C weather forecasts are broadcast before or after each bulletin as well as before closedown and produced by Tinopolis in Llanelli.

Awards

Newyddion won the 2012 BAFTA Cymru Award for News Coverage for a special programme broadcast from New York to mark the tenth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks.[4]

At the 2013 BAFTA Cymru Awards ceremony Newyddion was mistakenly awarded the News Coverage award. The award was later correctly presented to ITV Cymru Wales.[5]

At the 2015 BAFTA Cymru Awards Newyddion 9 was awarded the News Coverage Award for a special programme on the Paris Attacks.

They also won the News Coverage Award at the 2016 BAFTA Cymru awards for a programme about the refugee crisis.

Ratings

Viewing figures for Newyddion range from 17,000 to 22,000 according to S4C's weekly ratings report.[6]

On-air team

Anchor

  • Bethan Rhys Roberts
  • Rhodri Llywelyn

Additional presenters

  • Aled Huw
  • Rhodri Llwyd
  • Janet Ebenezer
  • Gwenllian Glyn
  • Telor Iwan
  • Nia Cerys

District correspondents

Specialist correspondents

References

  1. ↑ "S4C thanks Dewi Llwyd" (Press release). S4C. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2018. S4C has thanked Dewi Llwyd for his “huge contribution to journalism” after the BBC announced changes to the Newyddion presentation team in the new year. Dewi will leave the programme after almost 30 years as a member of the team.
  2. ↑ "Newyddion 9 to tell the full story to S4C's viewers". S4C (Press release). 22 April 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Plaid Cymru's emphatic Ynys Mon by-election win". BBC News. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "BBC success at Bafta Cymru awards". BBC News. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Thomas, Huw (2 October 2010). "Bafta Cymru: Welsh news award given to wrong programme". BBC News. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "S4C - Viewing Figures". S4C. Retrieved 8 April 2016.


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